When an housing society is sought to be redeveloped by a speculative developer, the individual aspirations of the existing stakeholders and their needs for extra space become a device to generate a negotiated periphery that balances development control rules and the needs of the occupants.
The Proposal for the redevelopment of Mira Housing Society in Kolhapur looks at the way a new emergent typology of a redeveloped housing society is playing out in the Indian state of Maharashtra. Here, multiple stakeholders contribute to the process of rebuilding existing urban fabric. The design often has to reconcile the aspirations of the existing home owners who would want extra dividends in form of extra areas, newer construction and better amenities. The developer, on the other hand, is looking to minimise his/ her outgoing on such extravagances and would seek to maximise his/ her profitability.
Here, the individual aspirations and the pulls and pushes of the collective home owners as well at an individual level are manifested in the ‘extra’ areas that cantilever from the main envelop of the building. The resultant form is thus a careful negotiation between divergent parameters.