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From Organic to Organized: A Rehabilitation of Nochikuppam Slum, Chennai, India

Nagarajan, Kaaviyaa Palaniandavan
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1511858363441914

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2017, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
This thesis “from organic to organized” aims to create an architectural solution which successfully involves and resettles people coming from organic settlement patterns to more organized living conditions. It targets to give the users a sense of ownership, social inclusion, and belonging. Furthermore, it accounts for the expansion and adaptation of the community in the future, through flexible design solutions. This thesis also proposes a tsunami and a flood resistant design to equip the community to survive these natural disasters in the future. Slums are an unhappy reality for many countries across the world. Over one billion world inhabitants live in the slums today and the numbers are climbing. The United Nations (UN) estimates that about 1.4 billion people will be occupying the slums by the year 2020. India alone will house about 65 million of the world slum population; that is 35% of the total urban population in India. In India, drastic migration from the rural to urban areas has resulted in a population explosion across all the major cities; these cities and its infrastructure were not equipped to accommodate the overflowing population and their needs. This rapid population growth and inadequate infrastructure in the cities has led to the creation of large pockets of slums around the urban core. Slum dwellers suffer from poor living conditions, meager sanitation, high child mortality rate, low literacy rate, dilapidated housing, inadequate infrastructure, high crime rate, and poverty. Many social activists and architects are trying new ideas to resettle the slum dwellers to an affordable and sanitary housing condition. The government is trying to fund and encourage the urban poor to own a basic house and has built multiple slum rehabilitation housing projects for the slum dwellers. Besides all the effort the government has put in, the demand and supply chain is still facing a great lag. In this paper, a series of studies and analyses of various precedents have been conducted to understand the reasons for the success and failure of the slum rehabilitation projects, specifically in India. From these directed studies, a set of design guidelines have been derived that can function as a reference tool to address a slum project. From organic to organized, proposes an affordable tsunami-resistant housing for the Nochikuppam slum that will allow the community to expand, adapt, and sustain; thereby alleviating the socio-economic and political issues using architectural solutions.
Elizabeth Riorden, M.Arch. (Committee Chair)
Christoph Klemmt, A.A. Dipl. (Committee Member)
153 p.
Architecture
Slum Rehabilitation; Nochikuppam; Slum rehabilitation in India

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  • Nagarajan, K. P. (2017). From Organic to Organized: A Rehabilitation of Nochikuppam Slum, Chennai, India [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1511858363441914

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  • Nagarajan, Kaaviyaa. From Organic to Organized: A Rehabilitation of Nochikuppam Slum, Chennai, India. 2017. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1511858363441914.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Nagarajan, Kaaviyaa. "From Organic to Organized: A Rehabilitation of Nochikuppam Slum, Chennai, India." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1511858363441914

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