Girgaon does not ask to be redeveloped. It asks to be understood, and then, perhaps, edited.
Memory as material.
The streets here are narrow by design. Verandahs once spoke across them. Festivals still spill into them. Any building that lands here lands inside a conversation that began long before the architect arrived.
"The most radical move in a historic neighbourhood is often to make the new building quieter than the old one."
Our work here has been deliberately understated — taller where the fabric tolerates it, lower where it does not, and stitched into the lane rather than turned away from it.
A longer essay, with drawings, follows in the spring issue.
§ End of dispatch
