ON SITE HABITAT FOR CONSTRUCTION WORKER

Amity School of Architecture and Planning

Project idea

An architectural solution to complicated social issues that are in desperate need of attention focusing on Improving housing conditions for migrant laborers of India who come with their family to the city for construction work and live on site, through providing a modular and adaptable temporary housing solution.

Project description

The project doesn't intend to give an incredible "structural" mechanical arrangement, which I feel isn't applicable to the present circumstance. The project plans to address what design is about; improving life for individuals, by providing better spaces and living atmosphere. The objective is to
accomplish nothing big but, giving a basic and effective improvement, keeping up building characteristics that as of now exist on the site labor settlement.

Technical information

Explaing the construction workers and their lifee style, project aimed at Understanding the currect scenerio of the jhuggi ( labour hutment ) ,This design focuses on improving housing conditions for migrant labourers who come with their family to the city. They are the most vulnerable with regard to housing conditions in the city. This project aims to provide an architectural solution to complicated social issues that are in desperate need of attention. The cultural, social, political and economic complexities behind the project defined the physical limitations of the design solution.
In this scheme, the construction workers would temporarily occupy a building that would also be used by other workers as per the demand of the cosntruction. What I realised is that although an outsiders eye is valuable for challenging ingrained, systematic tradition (in this
case the undignified living conditions of labourers), harmonizing the context of the outsiders eye with the local conditions is unrealistic. This structured the nature of my final proposal, suggesting that what was needed was not a technological solution but rather a modular and
adaptable solution that made use of the materials at hand to effect a change. From this point on in the research project, I focused on providing a temporary housing solution while attempting to maintain some architectural qualities that already exist on the labour colonies.

Co-authors

GUIDED BY : AR. SHUBHRU GUPTA