ONE GREEN MILE, REGENERATION OF THE SPACES BELOW SENAPATI BAPAT MARG
A replicable intervention transforms abandoned urban spaces through new functions and a strong visual identity
MVRDV
The project enhances a part of the urban area below the Senapati Bapat Marg overpass in Mumbai and testifies to the progressively more frequent tendency to produce a dialog between viaducts and their urban landscape, evolving the conventional idea of a suspended road, only intended as a monolithic engineering artifact integrated into the territory. The intervention consists of realizing a public space for the community, built below a highway, longitudinally cutting through a portion of Mumbai. The redevelopment involved the first 200-meter-long section of the overpass and represented the core of a great urban regeneration project to reinvent the more-than-11-km-long motorway corridor. Aiming to restitch the viaduct with the underlying urban fabric, MVRDV and the urban designers from Studio POD in Mumbai have worked on valorizing the interstitial space between the superelevated infrastructure and the void below.
