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SCHINDLER
GLOBAL
AWARD
2019
MUMBAI
Academic Partners
SCHINDLER GLOBAL AWARD 2019
INTRODUCTION
Schindler has built, installed and
maintained building-scale mobility infrastructure
since 1874. Our work has contributed to
constructing urban environments around the
world for almost 150 years.
We established the Schindler Global Award because we see it as
our responsibility to foster knowledge about sustainable urban-
ization by supporting the work of students, experts and practi-
tioners who shape the world through design and planning.
The students who participate in the Schindler Global Award be-
come part of a worldwide dialogue about the potential to improve
existing cities – and it prepares them to shape future cities. The
architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and planning
students of today will shape the cities of tomorrow. Education
must ensure the recognition of the shared responsibility to create
sustainable urban areas for everyone.
2019 marks the third time the Schindler Global Award has been
held as an urban design competition open to students from
around the world. In 2019 the Schindler Global Award moved to
Mumbai, India, following competitions in Shenzhen, China in
2015 and São Paulo, Brazil in 2017. Over the years we have chal-
lenged students to look at how these cities could provide better
quality of life, enabled by urban mobility, in the 21st century.
We are proud to present the Schindler Global Award 2019.
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Photo: Abeer Khan
LEAPFROGGING DEVELOPMENT:
URBAN TRANSFORMATION
IN MUMBAI, INDIA
The Schindler Global Award (SGA) is a student urban design competition
with a focus on mobility. It is an ideas competition, intended to
engage students in formulating a response to complex conditions
in cities across the globe.
The 2019 competition site is in Mumbai, India. An Region. These ideas should be elaborated in greater
estimated 22.8 million people live in the city’s detail within a specific zoom-in area with the help
catchment area including the Mumbai Metropoli- of plans, sections, drawings, renderings, etc., at a
tan Region. variety of scales.
In an exciting turn of events, Mumbai will soon have The project should be described using a compre-
about 725 hectares of space open up for develop- hensive narrative structure that explains the logical
Photo: Dimitri Kron
ment in the coming years, in an area known as the coherence between analysis and design. An under-
Eastern Waterfront. It is the biggest section of land lying concept and logic for the design should be
slated for development in the city’s central peninsu- clear. The choice of a focus for the design is essen-
la in the past decades by a wide margin. The future tial, but the comprehensive nature of the competi-
of the Eastern Waterfront is the focus of the SGA. tion means that a multifaceted response is required.
A range of scenarios can be tested with impact
The theme of the 2019 SGA is “Leapfrogging De- assessments of their possible spatial, social, eco-
velopment: Urban Transformation in Mumbai.” The nomic and environmental consequences.
theme asks students to submit their ideas about
how to leapfrog, or skip over, steps or phases of ur-
ban development that are demonstrably unsus- This is a condensed version of the full
tainable, from social, economic, environmental, and competition brief.
structural perspectives. Many cities in transition,
along with new and certainly future cities will face
this question.
On that basis, the competition is looking for over- Improvements to the mobility
arching ideas about how the Eastern Waterfront networks and their impact
on everyday life of all of Mumbai
could be developed and what its role could be in the was focused through the lens of
city and in the context of the Mumbai Metropolitan sustainable development.
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Views along the stretch of the Eastern
Waterfront, part of a set of photographs
provided to student teams.
Photo: Dimitri Kron
Photos: Abeer Khan
Eastern Waterfront
Zoom-in area
Central Mumbai peninsula including Eastern 0 0.2 1 2.5 5 km
Waterfront site boundary and zoom-in area.
(Map sources: UDRI, GIS Data, LoginMUMBAI)
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Since 2013 Kees Christiaanse has been the academic
partner for the Schindler Global Award. He led the
Chair of Architecture and Urban Design at the ETH
Zurich from 2003–2018, and is Founding Partner of
KCAP Architects & Planners, and Project Leader at
the Future Cities Laboratory, Singapore.
After working for over 35 years in the profession,
how do you feel urbanists might impact the
urban realm?
The profession is becoming increasingly ac-
tual and important. It is not tied narrowly to the aes-
thetic notion of design, but tied to transport, waste,
water, human living conditions, the design of envi-
ronments. Urbanists must work with integrated pro-
jects, and this is happening more and more. I be-
lieve that one cannot do this as an individual; it is a
collective affair. It isn’t about setting out to design
or shape a city – it is more like seeing where you can
Photo: Markus Bertschi
effectively “adjust the screws” and begin a process
of change.
What were your impressions of Mumbai?
The contrasts Mumbai presents are stark:
on one hand it is kind of an urban quagmire, on the
other hand some things in the city are fundamen-
tally sustainable. Millions of people commute daily
Kees Christiaanse has been working for over three decades in What are the benefits of having a global by public transport. A lot of waste is recycled and
urban design and architecture as a practitioner and academic. urban design competition? reused in the slum areas where the treatment of re-
Since 2013 he has been the academic partner of the The most fundamental problems in archi- sources is very interesting.
Schindler Global Award through his professorship at the ETH Zurich. tecture and planning are urbanistic, and related to
mobility and sustainability. This is the reason why What is the significance of the competition
the award exists: to engage students in the chal- title “Leapfrogging Development:
lenges we face in an urbanizing world. In my expe- Urban Transformation in Mumbai”?
INTERVIEW WITH rience, more than half of professional projects are
acquired through competitions and tenders. The
The title was selected because we would like
to stimulate a kind of thinking that leads Mumbai to
KEES CHRISTIAANSE earlier students have exposure to this better pre-
pared they are for this reality later.
deviate from the development patterns we’ve seen
in many places that have unsustainable aspects.
We assume that cities follow a certain trajectory
The SGA also functions to help Schindler po- that comes from the 20th century. There is no rea-
sition itself as a general mobility firm, something son, given technological and societal change, that
What has become clear over the years since world by virtue of participating in the competition. that we need as it becomes clear the public and there is a certain path for urban growth and devel-
the Schindler Award went global? This is the role that the SGA should have. It acts as private partnerships are part of achieving the goal opment. To consider that a city in the 21st century
The Schindler Global Award is an attractive a hub for ideas but also a hinge between students of making cities more sustainable and livable. More could skip over – leapfrog – basic things like poor
competition for students precisely because it ad- and a larger network of people working on urbani- and more companies are thinking about the inter- water management or high greenhouse gas emis-
dresses global problems in urbanism. In addition to zation problems – it helps to prepare students for face between the core of their business and urban sion mobility and building systems is a powerful
the prizes awarded, there is a considerable chance the reality of working as architects and urbanists settlements. That’s a positive movement with a lot line of thought. This could lead to equally powerful
that participants will have an impact in the real in practice. of potential. ideas about future urbanization processes.
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JURY MEMBERS Prof. Em. ir.
Dirk Sijmons
5 Prof. ir.
Nathalie de Vries
8 Prof. Dr.
Stephen Cairns
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Schindler global award 2019, mumbai, India Landscape Architect, Co-founder of Architect and Urbanist, Founding partner Director, Future Cities Laboratory (FCL),
H+N+S Landscape Architects, Amersfoort, of MVRDV, Rotterdam, Netherlands, ETH Zürich
Netherlands, Emeritus Professor of Professor for Architecture at the TU Delft,
Landscape Architecture TU-Delft Netherlands
Mr. 1 Prof. 3 Mr. 6 Mr. 9 Prof. em. Ir. 12
Peter Beard Rahul Mehrotra Romi Khosla Neil Runcieman Kees Christiaanse
Landscape Architect, Visiting Professor Architect, Professor of Urban Design Architect, Founder of Romi Khosla Design Head of Employee & Customer Founding Partner KCAP Architects & Planners,
at Politecnico di Milano, Italy; and Planning at Harvard University; Studio, New Delhi, India Communications Schindler Group Chair of Architecture and Urban Design at
Principle of LANDROOM, Founder Principal of RMA Architects, ETH Zurich (2003–18), Programme Leader
Domodossola, Italy Mumbai + Boston (2011–15) and Project Leader (since 2011)
at the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore
Prof. 2 Prof. 4 Mr. 7 Ms. 10 Prof. 13
Momoyo Kaijima Jagan Shah Uday Kulkarni Judit Carrera Peter Staub
Architect, Professor of Architectural Architect, Urban Designer and Architectural Managing Director at Director of the Centre for Contemporary Rector (ad interim), University of
Behaviorology at ETH Zürich, Switzerland; Historian & Theorist, Director of the National Schindler India Pvt Ltd. Culture of Barcelona; Liechtenstein, Chair of Architectural
Principal and Co-Founder of Atelier Institute of Urban Affairs, New Delhi, India Director of the European Prize for Urban Design and Theory, University of
Bow-Wow, Tokyo, Japan Public Space Liechtenstein
Photo: Celina Martinez-Cañavate
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Rahul Mehrotra served as jury president
for the 2019 Schindler Global Award.
He is Professor of Urban Design and
Planning at the Harvard University Graduate
School of Design. The jury was held in
Mumbai over the course of three days.
JURY
STATEMENT
Rahul Mehrotra
The range of competition entries surfaced two pri-
mary issues in urban design. The first is the im-
portance of using landscape as an instrument to
mitigate the potential impacts of climate change.
Various schemes demonstrated anticipatory strat-
egies to absorb tide surges, but more importantly
to created new imaginings in terms of urban form
and infrastructure and their interface with the wa-
ter’s edge. The second issue is the competition
challenged students to think across scales and
Photo: Celina Martinez-Cañavate
negotiate the small scale or fine urban grain with
questions of regional dynamics. These issues are
primary to the development of Mumbai’s Eastern
Waterfront, but also in many cities around the world.
The relevance of the competition in the context of
the contemporary debates in Mumbai about the
development of the Eastern Waterfront lies in the
spectrum of propositions that emerged through
the competition. These include extreme provoca-
tions about catastrophic climate-driven change in
the landscape of the city, along with those that are
more realistic and challenged specific aspects of jury commends the entrants who challenged the hopefully shift and perhaps transform the conver- have the potential of being productively embedded
the present governance and policy structure for business-as-usual presumptions about urban de- sation about this crucial postindustrial land asset within the conversation about renewing regulations
urban development in the city. These range from velopment and in particular interrogated the popu- for Mumbai. More importantly the imaginings, the and building code in the city, a crucial discussion
questions of participatory governance to specific lar notion of monetizing land as an asset of the city propositions in the competition could facilitate the for the future of the urban form of Mumbai.
housing typologies as well as propositions for form- through real estate development. discussion about creating a new commons along
based code. the Eastern Waterfront. In fundamental ways this By taking part in the competition, the students have
The potential impacts of the competition could could alter the structural perception of the city, its clearly gained a greater understanding of urban
Schemes of particular potency were those that occur at many levels. Most importantly the com- relationship to the water and the metropolitan land- design processes and projects, but also provided
suggested the generosity by which land could be petition interrogates and challenges current norms scape beyond. Specifically and operationally the valuable ideas for Mumbai’s Eastern Waterfront.
shared through the idea of the commons, for the and practices of urban development. The provoca- competition surfaced some crucial suggestions for The jury commends the hard work and participation
greater good and the betterment of citizens. The tions present in the range of winning entries could the modification of policy and regulations. These of all students in the Schindler Global Award 2019.
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FLOOD ME IF YOU CAN!
Water as starting point. Water as city-planner.
Water as resource.
Project Description
Rather than seeing water as a threat when there is too much of it and First Prize
pouring significant investments in flood defenses, a systematic trans- Team 57
formation is envisioned where a permeable topography would allow FLOOD ME IF YOU CAN!
water in and out through controlled floodable areas. Water as starting point. Water as
city-planner. Water as resource.
The project reconciles the duality city / waterfront with a bottom-up
strategy defining a new urban vision from Colaba to Wadala. A canvas Students
of appropriation is laid out for Mumbaikars to take ownership of their Soufiane Chibani, Lucie Perrier
urban environment, fostering an inclusive community. The “Green Sanc-
tuary” cutting through the Eastern Waterfront is a clear expression of this Academic Supervision
open potential. It sets a backbone for mobility infrastructures acting Fred Guillaud,
as economical clusters, logistical substructures and above all as social École Nationale Supérieure
inclusion catalysts. At the heart of this new ecosystem, reminders of d’Architecture de Grenoble (ENSAG),
the industrial heritage are preserved, enhanced and reused, creating a France
resilient framework toward Mumbai’s urban renewal.
Prize Amount
Jury Comment US$ 25,000
The jury found this project stood out among entries with similar strate-
gies using water as a basis, which elevated it into the top tier early during
the jury sessions. Further serious debate over the course of the final
sessions saw it rise to first place. Jurors commended the creation of a
reclamation zone and provided an “answer to the lack of open space in
Mumbai.” Further examination and debate led to its selection for the
top prize in a close final round. It was recognized for “taking transport
mobility issues seriously,“ and furthermore that it “made leapfrogging
but believable mobility moves.” The “sophisticated program and form”
were mentioned, and in particular the provision of a “stacked and dense
system.” The graphics were appreciated as simple yet evocative.
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THE VISION 2. Sanctuarizing the Public Corridor
Coupled with the water strategy and in response to the much lacking
The Eastern Waterfront as a transitional machine public spaces, we develop the green “sanctuary”. A public urban heart
The duality city/waterfront is to be reconciled in the site through an at the scale of Mumbai, where the industrial heritage merges with the
urban structure integrating both the qualities and the challenges of its new functions: from water treatment & storage, agriculture to sports
environment. and culture.
1. Bottom-up Planning Strategy: Flood Network 3. Loop mobility: Connecting the city through the EW
Water management is the project’s starting point. Rather than seeing Taking advantage of the geometry of the site, an infrastructural axe is
water as a threat when there is too much of it, we develop a strategy to gain overlaid over the pre-existing waterfront fabric connecting south to north
back control through a networked system of flood-areas, wet lands and and providing a safe and fast transpor tation system. With its elevated
urban infrastructure. The water flow is then helping us shaping the city. rail lanes, the “Spine”, cuts travelling time by more than 70%.
Conne Store
ct Treat
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Distribute Mangroves
Drain
CITY Integrate Revive
Pressure
Discharge
WATERFRONT
Potential
Rewind
Drain Absorb
ANALYSIS Water transit Conne
ct
The East-West connectivity is relatively “weak” due to the suburban
The Eastern Waterfront articulates multiple interactions along the city: harbour rail line, the underdevelopped accessibility system and high walls.
This diagnosis allows us to understand the logistical planning as well as There is clearly an infrastructural rupture within the city along the stripe, Preserve
the urban dependencies that shapes or had shaped the site. expressing a lack of porosity.
Attractivity behind the Eastern Waterfront
Link
The eastern Waterfront rests against the major attractive hubs of the Sea level rise
city. It sits as a common factor for an heterogeneous Mumbai. The linear
shape of the site offers the potential to maximise the urban mobility Discharge
and fludify its flows.
Spatial Interactions Infrastructural Mobility
A PARALLEL NETWORK
Train Station +
The complementarity between the “Belt” and
Individual Housing
the “Spine” creates a circulation loop to the city.
Densification
High-rise Housing + Slums
Housing +
Warehouses Existing flyover bridges
pedestrians
WADALA
The belt - 11km
bikes, pedestrians
Maintenance + Freight
Train station The Spine - 9.6km: 17min
The city Light Rail Transit, bikes, pedestrians
Sewri
ion
> To the bazar
The Loop - 18km
atat
Public transport, cars, bikes, pedestrians Hay Bunder
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Mumbai Terminus
Main station
Fort
(Old City) Bhaucha Dhakka
It is linking South to North through a parallel network
Densification
ANALYSIS Gateway of India
Mumbai
that extends itself to mobiity nods, open spaces, dense
residential areas and slums in the back-city. Its flexible
Sassoon Dock FORT
configuration enhances the mixed-uses possibilities.
0 0.2 1 2.5 5
It serves as much mobility, as logistics. It is as much an
km
economic cluster as a social inclusion infrastructure.
Attractivity behind the Eastern Waterfront Water transit
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Shiftting toward a more
MASTERPLAN – AN URBAN MOSAIC Integrating intern and environmental-conscious society
extern migration
2.
Preserve and enhance
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In the Colaba Reef, small interventions are carried out along the
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OG
Healing the shore
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shoreline by defining a more inviting waterfront. The existing slums
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Y
with mangrove
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are also upgraded and the local fishing industry is sustained.
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swamps Bringing nature back
Preserving biodiversity
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Improving existing to the waterfront
and natural migratory
1.
soft mobility
1. The Pocket – City-center attractor
routes
Like a negative to the highly densified city center, we operate a smooth
transition to the waterfront, creating a retreat zone. The mixed-use
Resilient urban
area proposes: housing, commercial shops, offices, administrative
environment
Reducing flooding’s impacts
Shared space Maintaining an active mobility
buildings, sport and leisure facilities. It is ideal for workers and inhab-
Developping
Shared activities Protecting slums
inter-modality networks
itants taking a break, having lunch and relaxing after work.
Community feeling
2. The Node - Productive center
The largest of the three entities driving the masterplan’s
dynamics.
Mobility as a cultural bridge Renewable
Drainage and water
Sustaining local
Sitting next to Cotton Green and Sewari East, it is the
heart of the
economy
energy strategy
retention (monsoon,
new agricultural industry. It is set to be a new center where the Eastern
rain, high waters)
Waterfront acts as a productive cluster, while providing affordable
housing to Mumbaikars and working migrants. Improving nature ‘accessibility’
New standards for living quality Optimizing and
helping small
3. The Hook – Supportive infrastructures
businesses
3.
Wadala region is characterized by its abundance in residential areas
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LT
and is a door to the large slum concentration starting from Korba Urban agriculture
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RE
Mithagar. To dynamize the area, we improve mobility by reducing its
impact on people’s life, we develop large sport facilities, educational
Bridging the gap between the waterfront Culture path
and the Mumbaikars
and healthcare infrastructures, along with employement possibilities Ecology path
to shift the center of gravity from an already congested South. Circular economy
Mobility path
Developing infrastructures recycle, re-use
at the scale of Mumbai
(social and economic impacts)
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FORM-BASED CODING
AN ALTERNATIVE URBAN DEVELOPMENT MODEL ADDRESSING
THREE MAJOR DEFICIENCIES IN THE CURRENT SRA HOUSING POLICY
Project Description
This project examines form-based code as a potential model that has Second Prize
the ability to address three major deficiencies in the current Slum Re- Team 158
development Authority (SRA)’s housing policy currently being imple- FORM-BASED CODING
mented in the city today: displacement of the poor; an imbalanced rela- An Alternative Urban Development
tionship between density vs. open space; and income segregation. By Model addressing three major
dictating the larger form-based coding of the block, the model allows deficiencies in the current SRA
for a multitude of housing, lifestyle and architectural scenarios to take housing policy
place, while a rigorous relationship to a subdivided set of open spaces
(from the neighbor to the entire district) is strictly maintained. In doing Students
so, a gradient of building typologies, from the tower to the single-family Evan Shieh
home, can successfully coexist on the same parcel of land, while dually
ensuring that a wide range of unit sizes can accommodate household Academic Supervision
incomes of all ranges. Fundamentally, the project shows how alternative Prof. Joan Busquets,
models, both financially performative and urbanistically humane, can Harvard Graduate School
exist without resorting to the severe developments that SRA schemes of Design, USA
default to. In doing so, it both critiques the current SRA housing policy
but also offers a new model of urban housing development for a city Prize Amount
with such dire affordable housing needs. US$ 15,000
Jury Comment
Early in the jury sessions this project rose to the top in recognition of its
complex approach to building code issues in Mumbai. A close debate
ensued in the final round, centered on the top two contenders. It was
noted that “the reality is if you go to governance, this could be done,“
and that it properly “acknowledges value of land,“ yet it was also re-
marked that it was “a bit housing centric.” It was admired for its feasibil-
ity in proposing “simple moves,” and “setting up a different systematic.”
The project was commended for its urban-scale “machinery for thinking
about diversity in a different way.” The representation was appreciated
for its appealing detail and rigor.
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PHASING
to mitigate displacement of existing families
EXISTING CONDITION
Empty Plots (Parking Lots) & Current
Informal Dwellings
TRADITIONAL EUCLIDIAN ZONING TRADITIONAL ZONING + FORM-BASED CODE
+ regulates & segregates land use “DESIGN GUIDELINES” + regulates density via min/max
+ regulates FSI + regulates & segregates land use + regulates facade-facing public
+ regulates setbacks + regulates FSI right-of-way
+ regulates setbacks + regulates block pattern/configuration
+ regulates “facade articulation” via + does not regulate use
design guidelines
PHASE 01
relocation of existing families on vacant land
MASTERPLAN ORGANIZATION
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establish secondary & tertiary open spaces
Indira Dock
Victoria Dock
PHASE 04
complete block clusters
Gateway of India
EASTERN WATERFRONT STRATEGY
an urban model with the potential for expansion & growth 7
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MASTERPLAN SITE & BLOCK CLUSTER MODELS
MASTERPLAN SITE (1:2500) / BLOCK CLUSTER MODELS (1:500)
UP
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TYPE 1E TYPE 1C TYPE 1A TYPE 1D TYPE 1B
37 SQ.M. 56 SQ.M. 75 SQ.M. 91 SQ.M. 148 SQ.M.
STUDIO 1-BED 2-BED 3-BED 4-BED
01_HIGH-RISE TOWER
TYPE 2A UP
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35 SQ.M.
STUDIO UP
TYPE 2D TYPE 2B TYPE 2C TYPE 2E
50 SQ.M. 69 SQ.M. 90 SQ.M. 140 SQ.M.
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02_MID-RISE BAR
TYPE 3D TYPE 3A TYPE 3B
38 SQ.M. 79 SQ.M. 158 SQ.M.
STUDIO 1-BED 3-BED
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TYPE 4B TYPE 4D TYPE 4A TYPE 4C TYPE 4E
102 SQ.M. 117 SQ.M. 132 SQ.M. 177 SQ.M. 207 SQ.M.
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UNIT AREA (SQ.M.)
fully aggregated partial aggregation dis-aggregated
UNIT DIVERSITY
creates a large spectrum of unit typologies &
sizes that provide an opportunity for mixing of
all income ranges
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URBAN
METABOLISM.
MUMBAI
Project Description
The Urban Metabolism is the answer to infrastructural problems and Third Prize
offers the basis of livelihood for the people of Mumbai. The city’s exten- Team 239
sion along the Eastern Waterfront provides good living conditions in a URBAN METABOLISM.
dense city with a small ecological footprint. Mumbai
The implementation process of top-down and bottom-up is designed Students
to give the protagonists – the people – the possibility of participation Beatrice Bucher, Natascha Fakler,
and self-development. Thereby a healthy city climate, affordable and Victoria Johann, Verena Krappitz,
accessible infrastructure and flexible living space emerge through the Yannik Plachtzik, Eva Racz,
people who also guarantee their functionality. The framework consist- Charlotte Raisch, Sara Schäfer,
ing of mobility, water, recycling and energy guarantees their livelihood. Regina Stolz, Christine von Raven
Green Open Space and the connecting Activity Space are the basis of
this framework. Academic Supervision
Prof. Fabienne Hoelzel,
This new urban organism is a complex structure of interconnected strat- M.A. (AAD) Sebastian Schott,
egies on different levels. Decentralized systems organized in Neighbor- Dipl.-Ing. Ute Vees,
hood Organizations and centralized systems run by the Eastern Water- Prof. Tobias Wallisser,
front Organization complement each other, thus creating a resilient and State Academy of Fine Arts
flexible urban system – the Urban Metabolism. Stuttgart, Germany
Jury Comment Prize Amount
This project was quickly recognized for its “plausible, detailed method- US$ 12,500
ology, with lots of thinking about stakeholders.” It was notable for being
“attractive because didn’t try to seduce us with urban images, gives
systems and methodology,” and it was found to be a nice contrast to
more form-driven projects and representation strategies, and the
strongest example of a participatory system based approach. A close
debate in the final session saw it rise to claim third prize, with special
emphasis on its “envisaging a transformation system” that was found
to be both “rich and radical.”
26 27SCHINDLER GLOBAL AWARD 2019
ACTIVITY SPACE
Eastern Waterfront
Organisation
Circle Train The Protagonist – Walker and Biker
The Activity Space is created by people and their needs. Todays average Additionally trees all over the site contribute to a good micro climate.
A more effective Cicle Train
system unloads the North-South
Government Private Trainconnection
Eastern Waterfront
living space of 4–6 sqm per person as well as the tropical climate leads Architectural elements as the energy hub Parasol enhance these outdoor
Organisation
the people to spend their lifes outside – on the streets. New Open Spaces qualities. Different mobilty categories like bicycle, bus, train or boat allow
Mangrove Forest
The expansion of the Mangrove
Forests are crucial for the healthy
like the Blue Green Network gives them an enormous frame to act in. people to manage bigger distances in the city
Government Private city. Mangroves absorb CO 2 and
contribute in a large scale to the water The Building Roles lead to narrow shaded and ventilated streets.
clarification of the contermined water.
Eastern Waterfront
Organisation
Bike Highway
To promote alternative Modes of
Transportation a Bike Lane becomes
Government Private developed parallel to the North-South
Eastern Waterfront Train and Highway Connection.
Organisation
Flooding
Green Flooding areas are located at
monsoon flooding heat points. Eastern Waterfront
Organisation
Fast Train
The planned Highway Link to Navi
Mumbai becomes a fast train
Government Private connection instead. It connects the
sourrounding cities with the metropol
center of Mumbai City.
Eastern Waterfront
Organisation
Waterfront
The entrie Waterfront should become
a public seafront for all people of
Government Private Mumbai. Beaches and Promenades are
shaping the new Waterfront.
Eastern Waterfront
Organisation
Ferry Connection
The Sea Connection peninsula with
agricultural products from the
Government Private mainland around.
Eastern Waterfront
Organisation Eastern Waterfront
Organisation
East-West Connection Wind Aisles
A highly frequented system of small
busses ensures an effective connection The Blue Green Network is
between the existing Mumbai City and its designed from East to West to
Government Private
new Eastern Waterfront allow the windflow from the coast
into the city for ventilation.
Eastern Waterfront
Organisation
Green Aisles
The Blue Green Network is
connecting the exsting and the
extension of the city on the
Eastern Waterfront.
DIVERSITY
Cultural, Religious and Economic
The Building Rules and materials are defined ac- Densely built structures are self shadowing and
cording to the sustainable and future-oriented idea create a good micro climate outside. Climate appro-
of the Urban Metabolism. Building roles ensure the priate building structures lower the need of cooling
vibrancy of the Open Space thus the room for small and airconditioning. Nowadays exsting building ma-
businesses. Building lines are set to create the nec- terials as concrete will be returned in the metabolism
essary room for the wind aisles to ventilate the city. by mobile waste construction plants.
28 29SCHINDLER GLOBAL AWARD 2019 En er gy Gri d
En er gy Gri d
Tid e
Tid e
FREEDOM FOR PARTICIPATION PEOPLE
Mo n s o o n
In Neighborhood Organisations As one of the fastest growing megacities in the world Mum-
Mo n s o o n
Besides the Eastern Waterfront Organisation accountable precise defined Building Rules guarantee the urban qualities bai and the Project on the Eastern Waterfront Project can 65L Drin -
for the main strategies the Neighborhood Organisation works but also the freedom of temporal self development. The become a sustainable role model for the new urban world. king 65L Drin -
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as administrative and organizing organ on the level of the Neighborhood Organisation controls this development, the The cities extension provides good living conditions in a
ap
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process and the framework of Building Rules within the the urban metabolsim. their? The Urban Metabolism is the answer to the infra- Storage in
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protagonists develop their living space. Therby the few and structural problems that offers the basis of Livelihood for Grey hood Tanks
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the people, the Protagonists. Thereby a healthy city climate, Water T reatme nt
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affordable and accessable infrastructure and living space Water T reatme nt St orag e Filterin g
Treat able Wa t er
emerges through the people who also guarantee their func- Composti n g
Treat able Wa ter
tionality. Drinking Water Rain / Used Water Usable Water
Composti ng
Drinking Water Rain / Used Water Usable Water
In Order to keep a good
Blue Green Network
Energy Network
Water and OpenBlue
Space Green Network
Ecological Footprint
by better Life Condidtions The Blue /Green This is a very are the basis of life. The
we have to close the Urban
Metabolism.
Network is not
only fo r our
Clean City with a divers
Cultural Offer.
Water and Open Space are the basis of life. The Blue/Green
Blue/Green Network
Waterensures the Space
and Open water supply
are the basis of life. The
Water Supply
we also enjoy Network
and creates Activity ensures
Space
Blue/Green for the ensures
water supply
everyone.
Network and supply
the water creates Activity
Space for everyone.
planying here.
Bef ore I was living
in an old Building
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Poeple are living
and creates Activity Space for everyone.
now I can effort around but I can
a Flat in a Shared come fastly by
Housing Community. Participation and our Recycling is my Livelihood Train.
Community Initative makes which enabled my
our City liveable. children to go to school.
Strcture
as Energy Strcture
Hubs of
Producer as Energy
Livelihood Hubs of
Producer
Shadowing
as Power Livelihood
Plants as Power
by PV Shadowing Plants
Plants by PV
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31% 45 %
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Accessable
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Accessable
Energy
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Renewable Energy Energy Grid Usage
WATER INSTITUTE Renewable Energy Energy Grid Usage
Indian Energy Network
In Mumbai Eastern Waterfront Organisation Treatment of Water Energy Network
The Urban Organism is a complex structure of
Gouvernment
Thus the Mumbai Eastern Waterfront Organisa- The Water Institute is a Hub of Livelihood showing the pro-
The new Energy
energies. TheThe
Network
Mumbai
new
is fed by 100% renewable
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fedPublic
by 100%
Energy Network
renewable energies.
The new Energy Networksociety.
Space with energy and Wifi for a modern is fed by 100% renewable
linked strategies is in the need of a functionable tion is founded which is responsible to imple- cess and the principle function of water treament in the Blue/ The MumbaiThe
energies. Parasol provides
Mumbai the provides
Parasol Public Space
the with energy
Public
and interconnecting Implementation. Thereby ment with the expertise of the organisation the Green Network. This explanation is complemented by two and Wi for
Space a modern
with energy society.
and Wifi for a modern society.
selected and financed
the process of top-down and bottom-up is de- the Blue/Green Network, the Activity Space and defined programs, which are surrounded by a flexible struc-
signed to give the protagonist, the poeple, the Hubs of Livelihoods for mobility, energy and ture with barrier-free spaces.
possibility of participation and self-develop- recylcing.
ment in a framework which guarentees their
International
livelihood – mobility, water and energy. Committee of
Experts Recycling
as Job
Recycling
Opportun-
ities as Job Organics
Opportun- for Compost Hub ofOrganics
ities as a Good Livelihood /
for Compost Hub of
Recycling
as a Good Livelihood /
Industrial Waste
Board controls Recycling
Representatives Organisation Industrial Waste
Assorted Materials
of the Neighborhoods Blue / Green Assorted Materials
Recyclables
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Organisation controls
Organisation Hubs of Composting Energy Grid
Livelihood The building is located in one of the old docks MANIFESTO Production Consumption Recycling
En er gy Gri d
Representatives
of the Gouvernment FOR MUMBAI/12 2133-239-4768 due to its water treatmet Production Consumption Recycling
function. The basin and the building are based on the idea Recycling Network
of traditional Indian water basins, such as Banganga Tank in Recycling Network
D
Mumbai city center, which for centuries have covered the
Recycling
All utilzed materials
materials. TheAll
are getting
different Network
materials
utilzed materials
reprocessed into raw
require different
are getting treat
reprocessed - raw mate-
into
B
All utilzed
ments in centralized materials are
or dencentralzed getting reprocessed into raw
systems.
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materials. materialsmaterials
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tionship with the people. centralized or dencentralzed
ments in centralized systems. systems.
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Neighborhood Organisations
30 31SCHINDLER GLOBAL AWARD 2019
FURTHER PRIZES TRAVEL GRANTS AMPHIBIOUS FUTURES
Students (Team 155)
Mariam Al Hamouti, Miguel Herreras
Academic Supervision
Victoria Acebo, Angel Alonso,
Superior Technical School of Architecture of
SHARED SURFACES Madrid (ETSAM), Madrid
Prize Amount
Student (Team 51) US$ 5,000
Shurui Zhang, Ziqing Ye
Academic Supervision
Prof. Robin Dripps,
School of Architecture,
University of Virginia, USA FROM PORT TO PORT
Prize Amount
US$ 5,000 Students (Team 180)
HONOURABLE 2nd Honourable Mention Jingjia Chen, Yunkai Li, Yangfanqi Liu,
Huihui Luo, Yuchien Hou, Yuhui Wang, Yaxin Wu,
MENTIONS MUMBAI’S WATERS Dongyu Zhang
Academic Supervision
MUMBAI CHRONOTOPIA Assoc. Prof. He Huang, Assoc. Prof. Yu Ye,
Students (Team 74)
Department of Urban Planning, School of
Cyril Costes, Achille Pelletier
Architecture, Tsinghua University, China
Academic Supervision Students (Team 62)
Participating Universities
Frédéric Dellinger, Anaïs Berthomé, Chiara Ciralli,
Historic City Conservation Institute, China
École nationale supérieure d’architecture Pierre Desriscourt de Lanux, Léa Guignard,
1st Honourable Mention Academy of Urban Planning and Design, China,
de Grenoble (ENSAG), France Guillaume Jacquot, Clémence Montigny
College of Architecture and Urban Planning,
Prize Amount Academic Supervision
HYDROHOODS OF TO-MORROW US$ 7,500 Assoc. Prof. Alain Guez,
Tongji University, China,
Department of Urban Planning, School of
Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’architecture
Architecture, Tsinghua University, China
Students (Team 54) de Nancy, France
Prize Amount
Rehma Asghar, Joseph Giambri, Naymah Hashmi, Prize Amount
US$ 5,000
Christopher Long, Sean Rackowski, Chau Tran, US$ 5,000
Bo Zhang, Catherine Brito, Kassandra Castillo, 3RD HONOURABLE MENTION
Priti Dawadi, Matteo Ferraro, Vishnu Shankar
Krishnan, Rebecca Morales, Melissa Nieves SPATIAL MEDIATIONS FOR
Academic Supervision MUMBAI’S URBAN AND
Prof. Georgeen Theodore, ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGES CO-WATERING HERETICAL NATURALNESS
College of Architecture and Design,
New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA
Student (Team 204) Students (Team 98) Students (Team 235)
Prize Amount
Sebastian Gaviria Gomez Marcin Bombalicki, Zofia Kurczych, Farah Moawad, Shereen Noureldin,
US$ 7,500
Academic Supervision Maurycy Olszewski, Monika Wegierek Youssef Rashdan
Ignacio Cardona, Academic Supervision Academic Supervision
Harvard Graduate School of Design, USA Prof. Dr. hab. Ewa Kuryłowicz, Assoc. Prof. Holger Gladys,
Prize Amount Warsaw University of Technology, Poland German University in Cairo,
US$ 7,500 Prize Amount Faculty of Engineering and Materials
US$ 5,000 Science (EMS), Egypt
Prize Amount
US$ 5,000
32 33SCHINDLER GLOBAL AWARD 2019
Coordinator, Urban Planning and Design Branch, UN-Habitat
SHIPRA NARANG SURI
UN-Habitat facilitates sustainable urban develop- it will not happen overnight. It takes a combination
ment, following global frameworks and agreements, of on-the-ground interventions with citywide plan-
such as the Sustainable Development Goals, ning support and national policy support to address
Agenda 2030, the Paris Agreement and so on. We large-scale problems. We believe that some level
work at many different levels and scales, ranging of “hotspot mapping” of most vulnerable areas is
from policy and planning support at national, sub essential in order to prioritize and immediately ad-
national, regional, city levels, to building houses dress some critical problems, or people lose faith
and providing basic services and infrastructure, to in the processes we’re trying to institute.
renovating a small public space at the neighbor-
hood level. Competitions can help planning and design stu-
dents understand they have a higher calling, more
JESSICA BRIDGER
As a UN agency, our work is underpinned by the UN than just building buildings. International urban de-
5 PERSPECTIVES Charter, which means we have to integrate respect
for human rights and inclusion of the most margin-
alized, in all we do. In this, the power of the blue flag,
sign perspectives can bring into relief levels of ques-
tions that often students don’t have an understand-
ing of, including poverty, informality, disaster risk
i.e. the convening power of the UN, should not be reduction, safety, climate resilience etc. It helps
underestimated. The possibility we have of bringing them understand that design at the neighborhood,
The built environment has many actors and stakeholders who
together different stakeholders, especially the most community, or district scale has an impact on all
contribute to its growth and change, from everyday inhabitants
marginalized groups, in decision-making process- these dimensions. Ultimately, this kind of exchange
to urban designers and government workers. Urban transformation
es that affect their lives and livelihoods, is unrivaled. helps people appreciate that built environment pro-
is the result of design, finance, policy and many other discipline
In cities like Mumbai, achieving sustainability or re- fessionals have a special, larger responsibility to-
and system driven forces. Yet it is also the result of the actions of
silience or inclusion is obviously a huge challenge – wards society.
individuals and institutions. The following five perspectives present a
range of individual approaches to changemaking in cities. We invited
Photo courtesy of Shipra Narang Suri
people from a diverse range of professional backgrounds to share
their experiences and ideas, with special attention to Mumbai and to
the role of a student urban design competition.
Shipra Narang Suri is an urban planner who currently leads the urban planning and design branch of UN-Habitat. She has
helped lead various international organizations focused on sustainable urban development over the past two decades.
34 35SCHINDLER GLOBAL AWARD 2019
Photo: Barbara Verbij
Architect-Developer, Mumbai
REZA KABUL
Our work in Mumbai has always been fast paced Everything overhead is politicized: what is seen is
and challenging. We work quite a bit in downtown believed. Politicians treat each infrastructure pro-
Mumbai where population density is very high and ject as a ticket to re-election and the metro was kept
demographics are diverse, this forces us to build above ground to showcase the progress. We need
vertically and keep in mind social structures while more farsighted, visionary thinking to take us into
planning. We try to bring the necessary elements the future.
for community interaction into what we build, to
keep people’s social lives intact, and support new It was inspiring to see the work of the students for
social interaction. the Schindler Global Award, I was impressed with
the way they looked at the competition task and the
Property developers get better conditions if they solutions they proposed. We need more of this kind
incorporate redevelopment of slum and tenement of engagement.
areas. In the past a lot of developers gave people
houses outside the city, in very dense areas with
Architect and Urban Designer, Rotterdam
narrow streets. This is not the case anymore, slum
NATHALIE DE VRIES rehabilitation happens at the same location and a
single project affects the entire community, bene-
Photo courtesy of Reza Kabul
fiting all tiers of society. This in turn forms diverse
neighborhoods.
If you are an urban designer you can influence peo- societal things are coming back into urban design
ple’s decisions – across stakeholders and scales, and planning, which impact the way people live. The We want to uplift to people’s social and economic
on everyday life. I find it an exciting level of design. question is how you can influence all these things lives. People who had lived in slums or tenements
Urban design can be pretty basic by making a good through design. can be rehoused, moving from a single room living
framework for buildings and public spaces, and de- situation to one with a sleeping area and a living
signing squares or street furniture, but at its best it Participating in competitions sharpens your mind area, with toilets inside the house. The in-house
also engages creating neighborhoods, streetscapes, because you have to clearly focus on what you toilet is a huge change: before people had to go
and managing good quality densification by the want and what it takes to make your vison viable. outside even in the middle of the night, it was a se-
optimization of uses and mixing of functions. My Typically it is tough because you need to do a lot of curity problem. With housing improvements people
involvement in urban design began with looking at research and at the same time come with a strong are truly coming to the next level of life.
large scale housing projects, by simultaneously vision to be noticed by a jury. You really can’t suc-
creating good “public realm”. It means creating cessfully do one without the other in urban design Mobility is key to development, no city can function
nice neighborhoods by giving as much importance competitions. During the jury it was fantastic as a without infrastructure. The Mumbai Metro was
to the spaces between buildings, the public space, designer to see so many different promising solu- planned years ago, but only started in the past five
as buildings themselves. tions for complicated issues that have to be tackled years. But it should have been done underground.
at the Eastern Waterfront in Mumbai – it helps you
At MVRDV we work in many different countries and to “leapfrog”.
our staff is very international. Yet we always focus
on local aspects particular to each project. It is in-
teresting to consider that many cities worldwide
deal with the same issues. A city like Mumbai has Nathalie de Vries is an architect and
issues like water management, traffic and trans- urban designer and a founding partner of
Rotterdam-based MVRDV. She is also a Reza Kabul is principal and founder of Reza Kabul Architects
port, pollution, housing – and these are all universal professor of architectural design at Delft (ARK), a comprehensive global design studio with more than three
themes around the world. By necessity all kinds of University of Technology. decades of proven expertise in project design and delivery.
36 37SCHINDLER GLOBAL AWARD 2019
Photo courtesy of Gautam Chatterjee
Architect, Mumbai
KAPIL GUPTA
Serie Architects was founded in 2006 by Christopher study of building typologies and their evolution. New
Lee and me. We were in school together at the Ar- architectural solutions are based on the careful
chitectural Association (AA) in London in the late study of historical building precedents and the study
nineties. Back then the world was waking up to the of the city and its history.
scale and speed of urbanization in Asia. In order to
theorize about, and build in Asia at the same time, Our portfolio has grown through significant compe-
Government Official, mumbai
Chris set up the London office and went on to teach tition wins in Asia, which have allowed for progres-
Gautam Chatterjee at the AA and Harvard GSD, while I set up the Mum-
bai office. The office soon grew to Beijing and now
sive dialogs with city governments, especially in
Singapore. Working in India, however, presents sig-
Singapore. I had a research directorship at the Ur- nificant challenges for architects and urban design-
ban Design Research Institute in Mumbai between ers who are far removed from a state-led planning
Since 1973, Mumbai has issued regional develop- The Eastern Waterfront now falls under a Special 2004 and 2008. process. Urban planning remains a unilateral dikat
ment plans. This is done in 20-year plans, but the Planning Authority, run by the Mumbai Port Trust, by the state based more on the abstractions of
challenge has been implementation. From the last which is the second largest landowner in Mumbai. The practice specializes in architecture, urban de- numbers and FAR regimes rather than a shared
plan, issued in 1997, after a four-year delay, only The MBPT has funding, and now the Eastern Water- sign and research on the city. The practice is known imagination of city making and the quality of urban
about 15–20% was implemented. The major reali- front Development must follow the guidelines in the for its theoretical position, which emphasizes the space and hence urban life. We need institutional
zations were that the plan must come sooner and current Development Plan. Competitions like the platforms which allow for a productive and effective
it should be actionable. About 50% of the city lives Schindler Global Award can bring up or support de- conversation about urban development with the
in informal housing, the highest percentage of any velopment ideas related to the Eastern Waterfront. public at large.
global city. Another 20% live in old tenements, so
Photo: Jordi Huismann
there are also questions about how to address ur- In India, we find ourselves increasingly working on
ban renewal. This means that 70% of the city does Gautam Chatterjee is Chairperson projects for the private sector, be it institutional or
not live in proper formal buildings. The current De- at the Maharashtra Real housing projects. Through our work we are trying to
Estate Regulatory Authority of
velopment Plan is the first one to specifically ad- the Government of Maharashtra engage the private realm to demonstrate and define
dress affordable housing. Prior to this housing was (MAHA RERA). what the positive social experience of public space
included in zoning. could be. In Mumbai, similar to other cities in South
Asia and in contrast to much of Europe, the City is
The new metro is a major step in Mumbai, about seen as a place to escape from, to move through
20 years behind where it could have been. Infra- and not a space of shared habitation. This must
structure provision, such as roads and rail is the change and only will when the discipline and pro-
responsibility of local government, but the metro fession of architecture and urban design takes up
came from the MMRDA and state government. the challenge to re-imagine the south Asian city.
The key for affordable housing is that it is connected
to affordable transport. 90% of the city is dependent
on the existing public transport, with a strong north
south corridor, but weak east-west links. Last mile
connectivity in the lower part of the peninsula is by
walking, but as you move north this becomes prob-
lematic. The metro provides new north-south and
east-west connectivity, including regional connec- Kapil Gupta is a co-founder of Serie
tions. As the city expands travel distances get longer Architects. With offices in London, Mumbai
and Singapore, the office is working on a
and new affordable public transport is essential at range of public and private sector projects
the metropolitan scale. in Southeast Asia and India.
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