India’s Architect Shekar Ganti won an architectural competition for skyscraper designs for Mumbai, the largest city in India with a population of 18.4 million, a port city with a plethora of shipping containers. Ganti uses a supporting structure to stack eight unit-high levels of modular shipping containers, like boxes stacked on shelves with the wiring, stairway and plumbing running up through the central support.

Each residence is comprised of three containers, which are bolted into place, as fastcoexist tells MHProNews. Outdoor corridors are lined with perforated clay bricks that provide shade but allow air to flow through. The complex would utilize solar panels and wind turbines for power, and LED lighting.

The design is narrow, suitable for the camped streets of the Dharavi district, in the middle of the city, a crowded slum of between 300,000 and one million people covering 535 acres. ##

(Image credit:fastcoexist/Shekar Ganti-modular shipping container housing)

Article submitted by Matthew J. Silver to Daily Business News-MHProNews.