Poonawala Chawls

Like many other chawls built in that period, the Poonawala Chawls represent
the archetypical chawl type with rows of small units strung along external
galleries and served by common bathrooms and toilets. However, what makes these chawls unique is their distinctive H-shaped cluster that contains two bars of housing blocks. The bar facing the street is wider and consists of two galleries on either side of the dwelling units that connect with the ban at the rear via a bridge. Each floor contains 19 dwelling units, each slightly more than 14 square metres in size and served by a single staircase. Toilets
and bathrooms located on the side walls of the rear bar. On the ground level shops and commercial units of various kinds make the Poonawala Chawls a hybrid mix of residential and commercial use that stand as an antithesis to today's amoranole nous na pro at where nous na nas been reduced to the mere production of residential floor space, ignoring the vital relationship between living and income generation.