Exploring Mine Reclamation Possibilities with Architecture: A Case of Goa

Abstract

The land known for its beaches and forest, are hiding injuries inside its green canopies. How much does the present affect the future? It is something that every individual should ask oneself in the onset of the course that we are in. The physical environment is beating on in our faces, showing what we have done. And as architects what can we do to bring in change is a question that we should be asking ourselves. One of the smallest states in the country produces almost 50% of the nation’s iron ore production. But nobody cares about what’s left behind after the production. This paper looks into the darker picture of it and analyses, what can architecture do to resuscitate the remaining life back to the already ventilated state and its people. Mine reclamation and its notation are far stretched in papers by the government given to companies to be still after they finish exploitation. But that has not been able to shed light not take it away from the facts that there has been no interventions made what so ever. The paper will try and look into the possibilities of architectural interventions that can shed the face of goa as a tourism state and also bring back people to its losing greenery in a more humane and economical way.