The housing project is located about 60 km to the north east of Mumbai which houses 54 families of staff working in the industrial facility of a color coating plant for a large corporate group. Family, relatives, and community play a critical role in Indian society. The housing has been designed keeping these socio-cultural realities in mind.

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Architects: DCOOP

Location: B-231, Jindal Colony Number 2, JSW Steel Area, Vasind, Maharashtra, India

Lead Architects: Quaid Doongerwala, Shilpa Ranade

Design Team: Quaid Doongerwala, Shilpa Ranade, Suresh Sawant, Parin Visariya, Nikita Baliga, Kavana Kumar, Prakool Soni

Area: 3900.0 m2

Project Year: 2016

Photographs: Quaid Doongerwala
Structure Consultant: Asim Shah

Electrical & Plumbing Consultant: URJA

Landscape Consultant: Vagish Naganur

Contractor: Ellora Buildcon

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From the architect. The housing project is located about 60 km to the north east of Mumbai which houses 54 families of staff working in the industrial facility of a color coating plant for a large corporate group. Family, relatives, and community play a critical role in Indian society. The housing has been designed keeping these socio-cultural realities in mind.

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Using the Mumbai chawl as a reference to organize the spaces, we saw it as a typology with the tremendous possibi...