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Aranya Community Housing Indore
Aranya Community Housing Indore
HOUSING
INDORE
OBJECTIVE
Until recently, efforts by the government to provide low cost
housing in India were aimed at supplying ready-built dwelling
units. This approach was unsuitable as it took too long to
build a complete house; the price of a complete house being
too high for the lower income people and only a few units
could be built with the available resources.
Planning: 1982
PLANNING
TOWNSHIP LEVEL
• The design method was approached at different
levels which eventually resulted in the creation
of neighborhoods, living areas, working areas,
thoroughfares, landscaping, and the public
spaces.
• At the township level, the aim was the creation
of a central spine with the Central Business
District. This was a focus on the six sectors
converging with a centrifugal-like force.
Conversely, the CBD sent out its tentacles
through the staggered open spaces into the
sectors.
MASTER PLAN
MASTER PLAN
• The master plan/ structure plan of the township
was informal and emphasized enrichment of
spatial quality in the plot layout plan with inter-
linked space of cultural context; maintenance of
a hierarchy of road, open spaces, and
commercial spaces; a central location of basic
community services, institutional, commercial,
social facilities; and the allowance of growth of
population density and house extensions in the
context of the Indian lifestyle.
MASTER PLAN
• At the six sector level, the aim was the formation
of a social compatibility of an interactive and
integrated income/ social group who have
attained a viable community in each socio-
economic sector; segregation of pedestrian and
vehicular movement and good distribution of
land use and infrastructure; and to reflect local,
historical characteristic in built form by
promoting multiple and overlapping interactive
land use, maintaining contact with built and
green land.
STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
STAGE ONE:
Plan initially prepared
by Indore Development
Authority which shows
a typical rubber
stamping attitude
without any concern for
open space hierarchy,
circulation system,
climatic orientation or
the built form.
STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
STAGE TWO:
Initial stage of
proposed plan with
distributed open
spaces and street
hierarchies.
STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
STAGE THREE:
Later stage of
development with
rectified orientation to
minimize heat gain and
increase natural
shading.
STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT
STAGE FOUR:
As in option 2, 3
and 4 toilets in the
back create
maintenance
related problems
MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY
• Conventional and locally available building materials and
construction techniques were adopted.
• The structures were constructed with load bearing brick walls.
• Walls were plastered and painted.
• Floors were cement concrete.
• The CRC roof was always constructed at a later stage because
it was a high investment item.
• The black cotton soil of the site necessitated pile foundation
even for simple and 2-storey buildings.
• Low cost hand made under reamed CRC piles were built for the
core house (latrine, wash room) and the residents were
provided with ready built foundations.
• The doors, windows, and grills were made on site by all of the
residents who made it their role.
• Railings, parapets and cornices were made to ornament the
house.
Presented by:
Khushboo Sood
B.Arch, 4th Sem