Modular Housing System in the Indian Context
DISSERTATION
SYNOPSIS
Modular Housing System in the Indian Context
Guide: Mr. M.L.Bahri
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Akshay Malik
A/1850
Contents
▪ Introduction
i. Preface
ii. Need Identification
iii. Aim and Objective
iv. Scope
▪ Case study – Analysis
▪ “Modular” Housing system
▪ Flexibility (High-rise Group housing)
▪ Value – addition
▪ Un(dis) – organised sector
▪ The inevitable – Growth
Introduction
Preface
Housing is one building type which literally every human being uses most of his life and spends the most number of hours in a day with. Housing quality, in whatever way it can be defined, can be variously associated with or even correlated with the quality of life, mental and physical health and social well-being in general. Unfortunately, today the public housing has become synonymous with the idea of a ghetto, a place in which people of a particular ethnic or economic group live in relative isolation from others. When the public housing was introduced in large quantities in the USA in 1933 at the time of the Great Depression, governments saw it as transitional shelter for individuals and families in need of a place to live for relatively short period of time until they could get back on their feet. But such housing eventually became a more or less permanent place to live for the individuals and families, trapped there by bad schools, high crime, few jobs and widespread prejudice. Just after World War II almost every level of American society started to live in highly homogenous communities, next door to people largely like themselves.
Housing in India, represents a product, highly complex, bulky, durable and supposedly permanent. It is practically the single largest investment of a common man’s life in India. Corollary to the well known issue of “population explosion” in the Indian cities is the challenge
SYNOPSIS
Modular Housing System in the Indian Context
Guide: Mr. M.L.Bahri
‘
Akshay Malik
A/1850
Contents
▪ Introduction
i. Preface
ii. Need Identification
iii. Aim and Objective
iv. Scope
▪ Case study – Analysis
▪ “Modular” Housing system
▪ Flexibility (High-rise Group housing)
▪ Value – addition
▪ Un(dis) – organised sector
▪ The inevitable – Growth
Introduction
Preface
Housing is one building type which literally every human being uses most of his life and spends the most number of hours in a day with. Housing quality, in whatever way it can be defined, can be variously associated with or even correlated with the quality of life, mental and physical health and social well-being in general. Unfortunately, today the public housing has become synonymous with the idea of a ghetto, a place in which people of a particular ethnic or economic group live in relative isolation from others. When the public housing was introduced in large quantities in the USA in 1933 at the time of the Great Depression, governments saw it as transitional shelter for individuals and families in need of a place to live for relatively short period of time until they could get back on their feet. But such housing eventually became a more or less permanent place to live for the individuals and families, trapped there by bad schools, high crime, few jobs and widespread prejudice. Just after World War II almost every level of American society started to live in highly homogenous communities, next door to people largely like themselves.
Housing in India, represents a product, highly complex, bulky, durable and supposedly permanent. It is practically the single largest investment of a common man’s life in India. Corollary to the well known issue of “population explosion” in the Indian cities is the challenge