THESIS SYNOPSIS

TOPIC-2
SLUM RE-DEVELOPMENT

SUBMITTED BY

SOWBARNIKA V

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B.ARCH ; CLASS:V-C

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TOPIC:

A. Name RE-HOUSING SLUM DWELLERS

B. Classification HOUSING, COMMERCIAL
C. Typology HYPOTHETICAL PROPOSAL

AIM:

1. To study the nature and working culture of dwellers to provide a better housing.
2. To understand the need for re-housing.
3. To create employment opportunities during course of rehabilitation to enable slum
dwellers to generate a continuous cross-subsidy.
4. To promote participation and develop social cohesiveness and self-confidence.
5. To understand the relationship between families and economy.

OBJECTIVE:

1. To formulate strategies for the new housing.

2. To understand the needs of today’s families and economy.
3. To look at changes in family and work structures and how does it affect the house
type.
4. To project future scenarios and formulating strategies to obtain a new house type.

SCOPE:

The main aim of the housing is to increase the scope of affordable housing for the poor,
middle income groups by understanding the culture of people and the issues in existing
slum projects to propose a new housing.

LIMITATIONS:

Limitations are designing a community space, analysis of target populations.

1. Residential Area
2. Recreational Area
3. Income generating
4. Community Space
PROJECT BRIEF AND JUSTIFICATION:

While the basic requirements to live a dignified life are already guaranteed in most of the
developed countries, the developing countries have not yet met this goal, with some of
them lying far below the expectations to reach it in the near future. The numbers of
individuals from the Third World coming to the urban centres and settling within slums are
steadily increasing.

With people coming more and more to the urban centres, cities are becoming even bigger
in territorial dimension, pressing protection areas or lands good for agriculture. Immigrants,
who would find job vacancies in factories, would most likely occupy neighbourhoods for the
working class, located near their working place.

Certain questions concerning this reality: where will the immigrants live? Which land can be
allocated to the new urban residents and, consequently, can they use freely? Which schools
are those where the children will attend and acquire skills to promote a better future for
them (thus fighting cyclical poverty)? Where will these communities get safe drinking
water? How will the garbage be managed? Who will protect these populations of insecure
land tenure and consecutive danger of eviction?

UNDERSTANDING THE CONCEPT OF SLUMS

Beside of being characterized by sets of self-oriented and illegal urban construction,

extremely precarious, performed by people with insufficient and no economic resources,
the slums differ in shape and materials from region to region. These communities frequently
use leftovers of construction sites, furniture, garbage, zinc plating, among others.

Characteristics:

1. Inadequate access to safe water;

2. Inadequate access to sanitation and other infrastructure;
3. Poor structural quality of housing;
4. Overcrowding;
5. Insecure residential status
6. Vulnebrality to natural hazard.

I would try to rehabilitate them with architectural solutions like: -

Low cost housing-

This would be an essential aspect of this topic. As I would be designing for slum
dwellers the total budget of the construction has to be minimum so that builders don’t
feel reluctant about taking up the project.
Multi-functional space-
One of the prime reasons why slum rehabilitation projects fail is because of their
single utility nature. They manage to provide habitable shelters but fail when it comes
to employment. Hence I would like to propose a building which would provide shelter
as well as employment.

Horizontal/vertical growth?
What we mostly see in slum areas is that they grow horizontally and hence have a
large ground coverage. If the same growth happens vertically instead of being
horizontal a large ground coverage can be saved and could be used for other purposes.

Through this thesis I would try to infer the reasons behind the evolution and growth of
these slums and would try to come out with proposals that could be practically helpful and
applicable. We as upcoming architects would be designing for humans providing them
comfort physically and visually. These slum dwellers though poor but that doesn’t make
them any less of a human.

CASE STUDIES:

1. Millenium house by Laurie Baker

2. Cipco by Raj Rewal
3. Aranya Low Cost Housing by B V Doshi
4. Belapur incremental housing by Charles Correa
5. Regeneration of the Favela de Rocinha Slum / Jan Kudlicka

THRUST AREA/SPECIAL STUDY:

AFFORDABLE HOUSING will be the thrust of this topic.

Though different countries have different definitions for affordable housing, but it is largely
the same, i.e. affordable housing should address the housing needs of the lower or middle
income households. Affordable housing becomes a key issue especially in developing
nations where a majority of the population isn't able to buy houses at the market price.

Disposable income of the people remains the primary factor in determining the
affordability.

SITE:

Site will be selected near the slums of saidapet.