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Bhendi Bazaar is home to theDawoodi Bohras, a tight-knitcommunity of Ismaili Muslims of
the nearly 20,000 residents.
The Bohras have lived in BhendiBazaar for around a century andown most buildings in the area
While these buildings have charmand character for visitors, it seemsthat for inhabitants the charm hasworn off.
HISTORY
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The Bhendi Bazaar neighborhood ofMumbai started as one of theintegrated residential, commercial,
social, and religious hubs at theheart of Mumbai.
Mosques, bazaars, apartments, andorganic street patterns all coalescedto create a tight knit vibrant urban
fabric.
Overcrowding, lack of maintenance,negligible investment in theinfrastructure have led to a steadyerosion of the fabric of Bhendi
Bazaar. Today, residents and shoppers
inhabit dilapidated buildings andconduct their daily lives on streetsthat lack even the most basic urbanamenities such as sidewalks,drainage, benches, trees and
PRESENT SITUATION
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Today, residents and shoppersinhabit dilapidated buildings andconduct their daily lives on streetsthat lack even the most basic urban
amenities such as sidewalks,drainage, benches, trees andlighting.
Tenements in the existing chawls
are barely 150 to 200 sq ft largewith common toilets.
Currently, the area is serviced by
infrastructure that is nearly 100
years old. The existing roads werelaid for transportation belonging toan earlier era and can hardlyaccommodate the volume or size ofmodern vehicles.
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The project has been conceived underthe Government scheme, DCR 33 (9). Itencourages builders to take up aminimum area of 4,000 sq m (aboutone acre, which could hold five to sixbuildings) and offers a higher-than-
standard floor space index (FSI) of 4. It covers 16.5 acres of land in the
congested area of Bhendi Bazaar. The entire area is nearly 100 years old.
MHADA has classified most of thebuildings as Dilapidated.
The Saifee Burhani Upliftment Trust (SBUT) has been establishedspecifically with the aim of Upliftment and well-being of the peopleresiding in Bhendi Bazaar by providing them with more spacious flats.
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The proposed redevelopment will transformBhendi Bazaar into
a diverse sustainable community with a healthneighbourhood . It will attract new business and private
investment, increasing employment andcontributing to the socio-economic growth of iresidents.
It will enhance liveability thereby increasingproperty values and serving as an economic
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SIT
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Congestedbhendi bazaararea (2012)
Bhendi bazaararea in 2014
SBUT had petitioned the state government for certain concessions to makethe project viable, which include offering floor space index (FSI) of 4 fortransit tenements against the earlier 1.33 to 2, reducing side margins from4.5 meters to 1.5 meters, and handing over civic-owned properties withinthe cluster to the developer.Approximately 249 old and dilapidated buildings, 3200 families, 1250
businesses and five mosques and religious structures fall within the Projectarea.
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it Is A "No Profit, No Loss" Project, AsConstruction Costs Will Be Offset By ProfitsFrom The Construction Of Four Towers With Parking
80% of the project involves rehousing theexisting tenants free of cost in brand newbuildings.
The other 20% will include four residentialskyscrapers to be sold at the market rate to
recover the project costs.
Each family will get a flat of minimum 350sq ft in the new construction irrespective ofthe size of their old apartment.
Two ancient mosques on Mutton Street willnot be shifted
A school between the two mosques will berebuilt on stilts to allow for a car park and asubway
Another 60,000 sq m underground public
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Bird eye view front
Bird eye view right
Buildings will be aligned north tosouth so that flats do not receivedirect sunlight. This will again saveon cooling costs.
Buildings staggered in height fromnine to forty storeys so that everyflat catches optimum breeze fromthe south. Planners studied windpatterns in the area for this.
Green lawns and plants on building
terraces for heat insulation on thetop floor. This too will lead toreduced cooling costs
Size of windows customised toensure that flats get maximum
light, but minimum heat
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Elevation view from jj flyover
Close up of building
Double walls to reduce heatabsorption in apartmentbuildings and to cut air-
conditioning costs
Solar-powered lights for streets andpublic areas like staircases, this could
reduce electricity consumption by 10 percent
Rainwater harvesting will reduce totalwater consumption in the enclave,though there will be a moderate increase
in population after redevelopment
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Plaza view
Sewage treatment plantwithin the premises willrecycle waste water forflushing and cleaning
purposes. Apart from savingwater, load on municipalsewage system will bereduced
Waste management to separate wet
and dry garbage at the locality level
Use of recycled construction materialwhenever possible to reduceenvironmental impact
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COMMERCIAL SPACE
COMMUNITYSPACE
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TRANSIT FOR SBUTTENANTSA 2-acre plot in Mazgaon has been
boughtto house 1,500 families in 3 transitbuildingsA whole new complex is currentlybeing built to provide temporaryaccommodation to the tenants.Each unit is furnished with akitchen and an attachedbathroom.
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In any top-down approach an appreciation of the complex socialfabric of a neighbourhood that develops over decades is rarelytaken into consideration. You can never get all the nuances of
life in such inner city areas.
The look and feel of the bazaar will disappear and in its placewill come an inorganic cluster of high-rises no different fromanywhere else.
there has been a lot of thinking about how best to maintain theunique characteristics architectural flourishes, communityfeeling and shop frontagesof Bhendi Bazaar, but this has to bebalanced with the needs of residents.
The street-level retail activity of restaurants and shops selling
everything from fans to auto spare parts to ready-made ridas ,which give the bazaar its character, will probablyshift to higher floors.
Is this going to be the future of urban regeneration for a city likeMumbai, where several areas are old and crumbling? Could this
become another freebie for the already powerful builder lobby?
CONCLUSION
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