Pettah Link: A new urban typology to revitalize the city of Pettah Part 2 Project 2025 Chamin Kalubowila City School of Architecture | Sri Lanka Colombo is a city of tension and transformation, once a web of wetlands and trade canals, it now struggles under the weight of rapid development, accelerating ecological degradation, and the erosion of cultural identity. In response to these mounting pressures, the project proposes a LINK: a regenerative vision that employs minimal, strategic architectural interventions to reconnect the city’s fractured ecological, economic, and social layers.The project is rooted in Pettah, the historic and cultural heart of Colombo, where dense markets, colonial legacies, and migrant communities coexist within infrastructural decay. Pettah reveals the urgency of Colombo’s urban crisis: mono-functional zoning, underutilized lands, and a lack of inclusive public space. The challenge is not what to build, but how to respond to flux.In response, the architectural approach embraces impermanence, proposing that sustainability lies in adaptability. Through modular, adaptable structures, the project transforms an underutilized urban fragment into a dynamic civic landscape. It resists permanence, choosing instead to evolve alongside the city’s rhythms and needs.Together, these strategies offer a new typology for urban regeneration, one that doesn’t seek to fix the city in place, but enables it to adapt, connect, and thrive with its people, its culture, and its future. Tutor(s)