slum rehabilitation scheme

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Q, sss-> "Do you know what the deveoper will do there?"

A, b-> "probably a 5-15 story set of concrete communist style public housing buildings. Never mixed use, and socially alienating to those who occupy them, much like the ones built in the 50’s and demolished in the 80’s all around the us. (from book Maximum City) It is said, that simply the social richness of the ‘village or town’ life in these slums is so great, that when they put up a housing block, the locals who would live there subsidized, move away and rent them out to other families for a profit. Either way Mumbai really really needs these housing blocks, or something.
It is one of my dreams to design a ‘state’ affordable housing block that has the social interaction and richness of the slums their are replacing. That said, it has to be more then ‘mixed use’ but serve all the needs of the community in an organic, flexible way. Its especially interesting to try a building like that here, simply because of the sheer ingenuity and craftiness of these people, you know they are going to f-ck with whatever you build for them.
on a side note; I generally much prefer these public housing schemes, to those in Beijing which sometimes stretch up to 35 stories high, at least these always have wide outdoor passages, and balconies."

Posted by Ben_Lepley +_+ on 2008-01-26 14:05:57

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