Adani Group chains in high-profile planners & designers for Dharavi project

A leading integrated business conglomerate, The Adani Group chains in sophisticated & high-profile planners and designers from India and around the world for its ongoing redevelopment project of Dharavi, Mumbai. Dharavi is one of the major & largest slum clusters in the world. The roped designers and planners expect to help in designing and conceptualizing the master plan. DRPPL (Dharavi Redevelopment Project Pvt Ltd) will be functioning with architect Hafeez Contractor, Buro Happold - UK’s consultancy firm and US-based design firm Sasaki, along with the experts from Singapore.

The UK’s consultancy firm, Buro Happold is acknowledged for Varso Tower in Warsaw - the tallest building in the European Union, the regeneration of Battersea Power Station and other major projects. Similarly, the US-based design firm Sasaki has notable experience in city infrastructure projects including the Denargo Market Master Plan, Public Realm development in Denver and the Ellinikon Park in Greece. Hafeez, architect and contractor has been involved with Mumbai’s communal housing and slum redevelopment projects.

A press release from Adani Group on this project says, “Jointly, all of them will reimagine one of the largest and most vibrant informal settlements in Asia”. Also it states, “Our goal is to elevate the quality of life of the residents of Dharavi while nurturing the essence of its vibrant culture”. It notifies that the redevelopment project is more than an urban renewal and revitalizing of infrastructure project. As well as it aims to generate a model of urban redevelopment for projects across in the nation and across the world.

Boarding to this redevelopment project, The Adani Group is planning to embark on the revitalization of Dharavi. There are more than 50,000 families living in Dharavi in crowded tenements and it has urbanized an ecosystem of its own. DRPPL owes to construct private homes with independent toilets, well-ventilated kitchens and rooms for family living and resting. With the exception of this, there will also be supplies for shops and businesses, whereas for a more sustainable future, there will be occupational job opportunities and up skilling of the existing local community in the area.