Saloni Tambe

Saloni Tambe is an undergraduate architecture student at the Kamla Raheja Vidyanidhi Institute for Architecture and Environmental Studies, Mumbai. She is currently interning at SPARC, where she is engaged in two key community-based projects: Closing the Loop, which focuses on designing decentralized, nature-based wastewater and sewage treatment systems for villages in the peri-urban areas of the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR), and Mapping Informal Shared Mobility, which takes a bottom-up approach to improving livelihoods and infrastructure related to informal shared mobility in the MMR's peripheral zones. Her academic exposure to urban design has sparked a strong interest in these areas, particularly in how architecture can address critical issues surrounding infrastructure and the public realm in informal mobility systems. Saloni believes that an architect's primary responsibility is to contribute meaningfully to society, and she is dedicated to exploring how architectural solutions can support sustainable and inclusive urban development.