HOW THE OTHER

HALF BUILDS

BY:
NANDINI SHAH
15SA224
 INTRODUCTION
• Urban housing is a worldwide need,
especially urgent in rapidly growing cities
of the developing world, evident in
unplanned and informal communities.
• These are examples of the informal sector
housing—often described as squatter
settlements or “slums”—that represent
latent assets and the basis of urban
solutions.
• As a result of the rapid and extraordinary
growth of cities, the shelter problems of
the urban poor in less developed
countries have increased in scale and in
severity
• The predominant housing planning methodology used in
developing countries with international financing is to
provide “sites and services,” that is, to layout large tracts
of small land plots and then installing an infrastructure of
roads, water and sewerage.
• This methodology recognizes the distinction between
house plots and circulation spaces but does not deal
effectively with the diversity of the activities that take
place in the “street.”
• In addition to accommodating movement, the street is a
place of work, shopping and commercial activity.
• It is the setting for social and religious functions. These
activities and the spaces that they occupy are here
described under the following element headings:
• House extensions
• Trees
• Access streets
• Workplaces
• Public structures
• Small shops
• Vehicles
 House Extensions Trees Access streets

Work- Public Small Vehicles

places Structures shops
 SELF-SELECTION DESIGN PROCESS: A NEW
DESIGN METHOD
• The framework of ideas behind the typical low cost
housing scheme does not take into account the user.
• On the other hand, the characteristics inherent in the
development process in, in formal settlements permit the
user to be involved in the design process at various levels
in creating their environment.
• It is no wonder that informal settlements (i.e, a slums) No pre-conceived plan. Progressive infrastructure.
have proved to be better housing environments than
planned housing projects in terms of satisfying user
needs.
• For the users, the self-selection design process offers a
general control over the creation of their own living
environments.
• Through an ample control over the location, size and
shape of their plots, and the configuration of surrounding
public spaces and circulations.

Self-selection of plots. Variety of plot sizes.

THE PROCESS OF SELF-
SELECTION SETTLEMENT