Place for Prosperity

fostering environments for children

Master thesis (2019)

Authors

S. Hadi Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

H.A.F. Mooij Public Building and Housing Design (supervisor 1)
H.L. van der Meel Architectural Engineering - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
Dick van Gameren Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
S. Pietsch Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
N.J. Amorim Mota Public Building and Housing Design (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

18-07-2019

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

The first interactions of the child with its environment can already have long-lasting impacts on its worldview (weltanschauung) and psychoanalytical state. This makes the architecture of housing, especially in poor regions, such as Nalasopara in Mumbai, a critical key point for the development of the next generations. However, after the economic liberalization of India, affordable housing has increasingly shifted from vernacular environments towards a dehumanizing accommodation of people in redeveloped chawls, so-called “vertical slums”.
This thesis aims to investigate the matter and propose an alternative for the chawl redevelopment that can foster children's development and create a sense of community and identity in their dwelling environment without neglecting the pressing issues of density and affordability.