
The illustrations capture the self-built urbanism/architecture of Sangam Gully in Dharavi, Mumbai. It is part of the Homegrown Street project, a tribute to the unrecognised talent of local contractors and artisans in Dharavi. The project spotlights the self–taught process of designing and building affordable and beautiful houses for themselves and their clients from marginal communities. It attempts to validate the Tool-House, an architectural typology which residents and contractors in high-density, mixed-use settlements create and maintain in their neighbourhoods. With urban ethnographic aesthetics, the illustration combines the architectural elevational style with narrative street scenes.