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- Aranya Township was a 86 hectare, 7,000 housing unit project in Indore, India designed to address the lack of affordable housing. It set aside 65% of units for low-income families and aimed to create an integrated community with economic and social mixing. - The project used a "sites and services" approach, providing families with a serviced plot of land and basic housing core that they could expand over time. Profits from higher income housing units would subsidize costs for low-income families and help repay loans. - The incremental development approach allowed residents to build housing gradually according to their means. While some issues arose, the project ultimately created a socially balanced community and generated profit through

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Aaranya

- Aranya Township was a 86 hectare, 7,000 housing unit project in Indore, India designed to address the lack of affordable housing. It set aside 65% of units for low-income families and aimed to create an integrated community with economic and social mixing. - The project used a "sites and services" approach, providing families with a serviced plot of land and basic housing core that they could expand over time. Profits from higher income housing units would subsidize costs for low-income families and help repay loans. - The incremental development approach allowed residents to build housing gradually according to their means. While some issues arose, the project ultimately created a socially balanced community and generated profit through

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EXAMPLE: - ARANYA TOWNSHIP, DESIGNED BY ARCHITECT BV DOSHI

• Project Location : Indore, 6kms from City Centre


• Project Extent : 86 Hectares
• Project Details: 7000 Housing Units, 40000- 63000 People (9/Unit)
• Project Audience: 65% Low Income (EWS) & 35% High Income
• Project Completion: 1988
• Initiated by the Indore Development Authority
• Aimed as an integrated approach- for a sustainable society with a mix of different
economic levels
• Designed as a Sites and Services Scheme
BACKGROUND:

- 51000 people without homes in Indore.

- Tackle this issue and at the same time be affordable to the government and urban poor.

- Previous efforts by the government to provide low-cost urban housing in India were

aimed at supplying ready-built units. However, it took too long to construct a complete

house and it became expensive for the low income group and also ate up too many

resources.

VIABILITY & FINANCE

• World Bank- Initial Capital

• High income houses to be sold at profit

• Profit to cross subsidize Low Income houses

-And to assist in loan repayment capacity of the EWS

• The objective of the scheme is to provide housing, for the economically weaker sections

(EWS) but within a socially balanced matrix of middle and higher income groups.
MASTER PLANNING- FACILITIES

- Localised CBD provision


- Acts as a focus for sectors
- Institutional and Commercial- Central Town Centre ( 4 clusters of shopping, residential,
office)
- Social functions housed at end of spine
MASTER PLANNING- NETWORK

- Street hierarchy to allow for strict pedestrian, semi-pedestrian and vehicular roads
- Transition zone of 0.5 meters between every house and the street- platforms, balconies,
open stairs.
MASTER PLANNING- COMMUNITY MIXING

- The upper income plots and commercial facilities have been housed in areas which
would fetch maximum sale prices.
- Initial investment- 57.2 million
- Additional surplus by sale- 11.7 million
- EWS prices are subsidised to 35%on average

MASTER PLANNING- CIRCULATION & OPEN SPACE

- Road areas of 21% of total land, and pedestrian walkways (additional 1.5%) of the net
area, is in the target set by the world bank
- The open spaces add to 8% of net planning area
- Open spaces have been linked to provided to accommodate a spectrum of multiple
uses.
- The small pockets in between houses, link to larger public squares in the middle of the
housing clusters and finally link to the central community amenities.
SITES AND SERVICES

- The 'site and service' approach is adopted in the design of houses for the EWS category
in the proposed township.
- A fully serviced plot is allocated to each EWS household together with the basic building
core (i.e. kitchen, wash and one room) which can be extended by the occupants at their
own pace and with their own resources.
- The concept of 'site and service’ helps to stretch the scarce resources of developing
nations to a maximum as well as stimulates the 'self-help' element within the
community.

INCREMENTALITY
- The service core was provided to the people- kitchen and toilets (plumbing for water,
sewage, electrical lines, etc.)
- The cores form the nuclei around which development happens, and community evolves
- The core constitutes the largest cost components of such developments
- Once the core has been provisioned, it has been left to the choice of the resident to
design and build their houses in comfortable affordability and time spans.
- Loan repayment for EWS: Rs 25/month for families earning Rs 200, and a maximum of
Rs 87/month for families earning Rs 400 (Rs 13 = USD 1)

DID IT WORK? – POST OCCUPANCY STUDY


• NEGATIVES
• Initial Core- Based on initial money put in by people. This meant that some had a
house wit ha latrine and kitchen, or just pipelines with a plinth area built
• Larger open spaces unmanned, often piled with rubbish (heavily unused)
• Play of lower levels of bureaucracy- brokering
• Illegal rent transfer to people who have managed to obtain houses on land
belonging to others
• Resale price 10 times the original prices
• No tenancy clause
• POSITIVES
• Houses built gradually, and no pressure on people. People build as homeowners-
sense of ownership adds to the sense of belonging.
• Initial use of inexpensive materials- now developed to solid permanent
structures
• Small open spaces used well- small temples, festival gathering, resting, trees,
drying clothes
• Created a 12% profit by cross subsidy

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