The Artist Village in Belapur, Navi Mumbai was designed by Charles Correa as a Prototype of mass affordable housing for a tropical climate, and keeping with the strong sense of community that is a characteristic of housing in India.The Artist Village is long considered a unique and critical comment on housing the tropics, and has long been studied and debated worldwide. Indeed, it is considered essential study for students of housing.
The three and half decades since Artist Village has been designed and conceived have been a period of intense change in India. We are urbanizing at a rapid rate, our population continues to grow, and speculation in the real estate and housing markets have been the essential drivers that shape our built form.
AIM:
Redesign of the Artist Village understanding the changing needs of housing to suit the present times.
