TY  - BOOK
AU  - Patel, Dhwani Pankaj (UA2511)
AU  - Kashikar, Vishwanath (Guide)
TI  - Flexibility in housing : impact of architectural design decisions on ease of making modification to dwellings in mass housing (Also available on CD)
U1  - A TH-1295 
PY  - 2017///
N1  - Content 
1 INTRODUCTION  Introduction  10
Aim and Objectives  11
Methodology and Analytical Framework  11
Scope and Limitations  122
2 THE HOUSING PROBLEM  Mass housing as means of housing  18
Dwelling as a process  19
Possession and personalization   20
Universality and uniformity  23
3 NATURE OF HOUSING  Failure of current housing stock  26
Obsolescence in housing  27
External demographics and internal dynamics  29
Financial arguments  30
Needs and desires of users to modify  31
4 CASES OF FLEXIBILITY IN HOUSING  Various approaches towards designing housing  33
Modernity and minimal living  34
The industrialization of housing  36
Participation and user choice  38
5 MAKING OF HOUSING  Vertical structural system  43
Horizontal spanning system  44
Plumbing system  46
Electrical system  47
6 CASE STUDIES  Darshan Apartments  50
Casela Towers  58
Skydeck  72
7 CONCLUSION  Conclusion  82
8 APPENDIX & CREDITS  Appendix  87
Illustration credits  93
Bibliography  95

ER  -