School Lecture Series Fall 2025
Housing Vol.1 – Affordable Housing: Six Exemplary Projects
RC Architects
Vivoli, Affordable Housing Mumbai
Vivoli is an ‘environment of spaces’, enclosed, semi-open and open. These spaces construct an opportunity for numerous activities at different times of the day in the house and in the community. It offers multifunctional spaces within the single unit where the user can create different living patterns based on different times of the day avoiding the stereotypical jail cell-like flats that people are forced to buy. Instead, it offers a place that fosters community living in apartments that behave like homes.
Rohan Chavan is an architect and deisgner, founder of RC Architects. He started his practice in Mumbai in 2015 to work on projects related to public and community sanitation, urban design, affordable housing, single-family homes and institutions. His approach toward living patterns and bold spaces are the highlights of its design practice. He believes architecture as a science emerged from man's humble need for shelter. A home is the purest form of design.