![]() ![]() Given that today’s slum rehabilitation and redevelopment projects are bound to be inside the city or in the proximity of the city center to ensure livelihood opportunities for the urban poor, Aranya was separated by a distance of 10-12 kilometers from the city centre of Indore ensuing very cheap land prices which made the project economically viable.To sustain the livelihood opportunities of the beneficiaries, today, the government housing policies and missions strongly adhere to the practice of relocating slum inhabitants within the city, which has left little scope for architects to continue on the paths chartered by Doshi. Among these works are pioneering buildings like the Indian Institute of Management (197792), Doshi’s architectural studio Sangath (1980), and the famous low-cost housing project Aranya (1989). The urban land scarcity has led to exorbitant urban land rents and a parallel informal land market which makes resettlement of slum dwellers in G or G+1 structures economically unviable. Aranya is largely G and G+1 structures which require more urban land compared to conventional G+4 multi-family units being implemented by Public Bodies for slum redevelopment and rehabilitation. But there’s one major drawback that holds Aranya back from being implemented as a model for low-cost housing in India- the space requirements. Today the learnings of Aranya cannot still inspire Public Bodies to build and design habitats for the underprivileged along the same concepts. Balkrishna Doshi Aranya Low Cost Housing, Indore, India, 1989. ![]()
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