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Today, 1 in 6 of the world population lives in a squatter. It will increase to 1 in 4 in 2030 and 1 in 3 by 2050. Soon, the one sitting either to your right or to your left will be living in a squatter. There is an urgent need to rethink the current living condition in the slums in order to design a new typology that supports future growth of the population. Since problems are local, solutions have to be local. Taking the essence of come-and-go of the service that actually takes no space, it is then to be merged with the flexible quality of a wet market taken in the slum to create an improved typology of settlement that provides living environment with better open space and infrastructure. The project emerged from a series of observation of the social phenomenon that reflected the urgent need of public spaces in the extreme living density of Mumbai. The order that inherited in the chaotic world was revised and enhanced to embrace the rapid growth of community such that society will no longer be restrained by the infrastructure but facilitated instead. So how would the pattern of the inhabitant inform the surrounding by forming its unique arrangement? How would it be received, abstracted and projected back again to the public? Would the reinterpreted pattern be able to express its internal order as a language to engage the public while tackling certain social issues?

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Dennis (Hoi Kwan) Cheung

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