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Early diagrams about daily activities, and levels of privacy leading towards the proposed typology

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3 Bedroom Family House

3 Bedroom Family House

Tourist Boat

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Paddy Fields

SOCIAL HOUSING: Towards a Typology for a Model Tourism and Agricultural Village in the Valiyaparamba Backwaters, in Kerala South India The project aims towards developing a Housing Typology, which could be multiplied across the waterlogged areas of the state as Kerala’s Backwater Tourism industry continues to boom, bringing with it both financial benefits and social and environmental consequences.

By balancing tourism activities with traditional agre-cultural activities, the project provides employment opportunities and enable households and individuals to produce and supply agricultural products that are demanded by the tourism industry so that local people will be able to get maximum economic benefit out of the increase in tourism in the area, whilst preserving the agrecultural landscape and traditions.

The illustrated masterplan describes how the typology could be implemented across the site, to create a land-scape of cluster houses and Kaipad Fields. The length and width of the family houses depend on situations such as number of children etc. The angle between the houses and the central communal space is dependent on environmental factors, such as to take advantage of the prevailing wind direction for maximum natural ventilation.

In a similar way that one can see from an indian village where member of the same families live from the same colours of their houses, one wiill be able to under-stand the environmental and social context including the complex family links and social circumstances by ‘reading’ into the way in which the architecture sprawls across the site.

1:1500 Sketch Masterplan showing the implementation of the typology across the site.

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Community Facilities

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Health Centre

Kettavulum Communal Space

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Kaipad Fields

90kg Rice20kg FishMARKET

30kg Rice10kg FishTOURIST

120kg Rice

30kg FishFAMILY

Joanne Preston RIBA WREN SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION

SOCIAL HOUSING: Towards a Typology for a Model Tourism and Agricultural Village in the Valiyaparamba Backwaters, in Kerala South India.

Hand drawn circular section showing how the daily lives of the occupants are played out withing the are-chitecture and agrecultural landscape

Joanne Preston RIBA WREN SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATION

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