This industrial housing colony is designed as a complete community.Low cost local materials are used and the site plan follows the logic of natural slopes-with rain-water cllection and waste recycling.
Low rise- high density solution for Delhi climate. Shaded streets, graden courts with trees; a balance between the needs of daylighting and ventilation, winter sun and shading during summer, integrating a habitatble out-of-doors with built spaces.
First prize in an invited competetion. housing proposal for a society of architects! A low-rise solution that inculcates an open space into a community garden court. The faces of homes are designed for 'self-build' variations with shading arrangements according to orientations.
Prize winning design (placed third) for National Competition of Low-Cost Housing Design 1980-81, sponsored by Housing and Urban Development Corporation and Hari Om Ashram Trust.
The 'Z' form of the individual lot and its stacking makes for many variations inincremental growth of homes. The streets make community spaces. Services infrastructure is rationalised to become very economical.