The focus was to understand the threshold between a forest and city in Mumbai. Mumbai in its heart holds a very diverse forest called the Sanjay Ghandhi National Park. We as a group of 13 divided ourselves into 6 groups and looked at 6 diffierent thresholds.
To understand the forest better we made a timeline of the forest of SGNP before theBritish era till the present covering the importants acts as well related to enviroment and forest.
To view the time line click here
Togeather we put up a website and book in which we have complied all the work of the 6 groups and explained the course of the module.
To view the website click here
FOREST AS A CONTINUMM
LOCATION: IT PARK, GOREGAON (EAST)
Intially the whole land was owned by Dinshaw Wacha Trust. Under the Urban Land Ceiling Act 1976, the government took over and divided the land in 3 parts. One for the trust, one for MHADA and one for Nagri Nivara. The trust sold the their part of the land to Raheja Estate. The land was always private yet it had the forest flowing on it, with time devolopments happened yet a large chunk of Raheja Land is a forest.
Site Axo View
Photos of the site
Section from Mantri Park to the Forest brings out how the forest spills out into city and how various types of spaces are bringing complexcity to the land.
Drawing that talks the stories of the threshold and brings out the negotiations of the people with the forest and the forest with the people.
IN COLLABRATION WITH AASHIKA THOLE
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