Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

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Publish Date 12/07/2019
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Published By International Journal of Science and Research
Edited By Saba Bilquis
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AFFORDABLE HOUSING TECHNIQUES BY AR. LAURIE BAKER IN INDIA

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Document Type: General
Publish Date: 2019
Primary Author: Shruti Sharma and Suman Sharma
Edited By: Saba Bilquis
Published By: International Journal of Science and Research

Increasing awareness for materials, architecture, and aesthetics trends in people are good signs for a better future in the field of architecture and developing city conditions and living standards, but this is a fact that everyone wants to build their house in an affordable and in an innovative way, but due to lack of awareness and minimum budget people are avoiding to go for better construction practices, that designers and engineers are providing, due to these people are going for wrong practices and unauthorized people for their low budget construction, this is the major issue nowadays, that people are doing wrong practices, out of standards, poor working quality, and incomplete knowledge, all these are decreasing the life span, and quality of building forms, materials, and architecture. On the other hand, ar. Laurie baker and their principles in affordable housing changed the way of thinking and also improved the living standards of the people with a minimum budget for building their homes. So, this study is to analyze the working style and principles, and their techniques for building houses in an innovative way by using local materials. Through this study and analysis, the paper is portraying Indore housing conditions, and how to improve affordable housing conditions by applying the techniques and elements sir baker used in Trivandrum. As mentioned study aims at the analysis of basic affordable techniques (cost-cut) in building construction – suggested and practiced by Sir Laurie baker. The study is to achieve a good specification of design elements and techniques that can be applied in the city of Indore to make the housing qualities more sustainable and affordable as Sir Laurie baker did in the city of Trivandrum.

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