Transit Shelters

Transit Shelters addresses the neglect of migrant workers and low-income travelers in Chennai who sleep on unsafe platforms and footpaths. Designed as low-cost, self-sustaining micro-hotels, the shelters reuse discarded metro pipes, tires, and debris to form modular units around secure courts. Each site hosts 300 modules with bio-toilets generating electricity. Daytime markets operated by NGOs activate the sites and provide revenue, while at night the shelters become ventilated, guarded spaces for dignified rest.