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    The document discusses two low income housing projects - Empower shacks in Cape Town, South Africa and slum housing in Bengaluru, India. Empower shacks aimed to provide housing and basic amenities to over 2700 informal settlements. It details the modular design approach using timber, metal and clay blocks. Slum housing redesigned settlements for construction workers using parts of a kit that can be assembled and disassembled as needed to address issues like flooding and lack of space.

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    STUDIO – IX

    Low income housing


    Solutions in urban design

    HEMISH PATEL
    163561050044
    Project Name – Empower shack
    Architects – Urban-think tank
    Location – Cape Town, South Africa
    Year – 2016

    • This housing system helped in solving the housing


    crisis faced due to escalating prices of property.

    • The project aimed to provide a fair distribution of


    public land for over 2700 informal settlements
    enhanced by innovative methodology and
    provision of basic amenities.

    • South Africa is currently experiencing a housing


    crisis, with high property prices, limited financing
    options, and lack of appropriate housing stock
    leaving some 7.5 million people living in informal
    settlements
    • Urban-Think Tank has also developed software
    that can easily model different urban layouts for
    the Empower Shacks to be built in.

    • The software also produces an online 3D model


    that residents can gain access to in order to view
    potential layouts and register their feedback. The
    software is open source, making it freely
    available to community and urban planners.

    • Because the model is scalable, Urban-Think Tank


    hope that this urbanisation scheme can be used
    to upgrade informal settlements, deliver basic
    services and create a safer urban environment on
    a larger scale.

    Post apartheid planning


    After - 1994
    • Micro-financing
    schemes are also built
    into the planning tools,
    so residents can take
    out small, ethical loans
    when building an
    Empower Shack or
    adding another storey.

    • The units are available


    in six sizes ranging
    between 38-square-
    metres and 84-square-
    metres, and are priced
    accordingly.
    • The designers are now exploring different configurations of the prototype that will allow it to adapt to the
    needs of different residents, extending up to three storeys when necessary.

    • This in turn becomes part of a wider strategy for rationalising the layout of the entire community, known as
    blocking out. This involves creating access routes for emergency vehicles and providing basic services such as
    sanitation and water.
    Low cost material used
    • Timber frame
    • Metal sheets
    • Clay blocks
    Project Name – Slum housing
    Architects – Bhumiputra Architecture
    Location – Bengaluru, india

    • Redesigned the slums for construction workers. They design Parts of kit and the workers can assemble and
    dismentel according to their needs.
    • There were several major issues. The first being that of flooding during the monsoons, that caused the
    settlements to turn into water pools, becoming breeding grounds for diseases .

    • Another issue was the lack of space in the house that catered to their living as well as cooking requirements. As
    a result, the excessive accumulation of smoke, soot and carbon monoxide in their claustrophobic volumes with
    no chimneys or windows only caused further harm to their health.

    • There was absence of adequate natural light and air ventilation indoors.

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