Domestic Water

Fall 2016 // Critic: Inaki Alday // Location: Delhi, India

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Daylighting the Palam Drain Corridor

As one of the most continuous linear systems of undeveloped space in the city, Delhi’s urban waterways are a contested territory, often hosting multiple additional infrastructures—including sewage, solid waste, electricity, and transit. The clogging of these urban arterials has in many cases precluded their use as public space, and caused adjacent neighborhoods to turn their backs. The Palam Drain—at 14km, one of the longest tributary drains in the city— is a natural test site for an intervention in this urban system.