Lilav Fish Harbour at Devgad by Pranay Mithbavkar is a fish market architecture thesis about coastal community, trade, vernacular material and public life on the Konkan coast.
The project is useful because it treats a fish harbour as more than a working edge. It becomes a market, a civic threshold, a tourism asset and a place where local identity is built into the architecture.
Project gallery
The project visuals show how harbour infrastructure, public space and architectural section are brought together around a coastal settlement.
Project overview
Pranay is a recent B.Arch graduate from Sir J. J. College of Architecture. His final-year thesis proposes a fish harbour and market complex for Devgad, responding to coastal trade, fishing infrastructure and local cultural identity.
The original project text positions the harbour as a way to support local fishers while also giving the region a stronger public-facing place for market activity, community gathering and heritage promotion.
What the harbour design is testing
- How a fish market can support trade, visitors and local community life.
- How coastal architecture can respond to humidity, salt air and monsoon rain.
- How laterite stone, bamboo and timber can reinforce a sense of place.
- How passive ventilation and deep eaves can reduce reliance on mechanical systems.
- How public space can make working infrastructure more civic and welcoming.
Showcase a coastal or infrastructure project
Architecture Social can feature student projects where infrastructure, local economy and public life are connected through design.
- Explain the users and daily flows.
- Show the local material and climate strategy.
- Make the public value clear, not only the building form.
- Use drawings that explain trade, movement and threshold.
Architecture Social view
Stephen’s recruiter view is that projects like this should make the practical brief visible. The fishers, market users, visitors, materials, weather and service flows all need to be legible alongside the wider concept.
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