The Alis of Pune, India are exemplar of a sustainable and synergistic architecture of the past. As rapid urbanization, commercialization and influx of population threaten to disrupt this synergy, the future of the Ali is bleak. The project analyses the current situation of the Ali and proposes as alternative future focused on environmental sustainability and occupant comfort, based on the hypothesis that by designing for livability in the Ali, the synergy will be restored. And thus, an Alter[native] Ali emerges, the result of a comfort driven, methodological process, imbibed from local solutions culminating in a healthier resilient neighborhood and paving the start of an evolutionary urban regeneration of the city’s old core.