Palsunda Cost Effective Home

The "kachha" house of this tribal kirtankar farmer was on the verge of falling apart and he refused to take the government scheme of PMAY because of the area constraints and costly materials it introduced. He wished for a habitat that would be a module that his entire village can follow using traditional technologies of construction. The main challenge of this project was the construction cost which would be as much as the PMAY. This would be his residence along with a computer room to be used by the entire village.

The whole concept revolved around an extremely low budget. A plan on the grid was designed with a central core from which lean-to roofs can be added as extensions. Such was the incremental module that would help reduce cost and could be built in phases.

The community joined together for the execution of this project. All the skilled labour needed for the construction was locally sourced, the family and the extended family provided the unskilled labour. The bricks for the house were made by the client himself. All wood and Mangalore tiles that could be salvaged were reused in the new house. All these factors into helping reduce the cost tremendously down to PMAY construction cost.

This project bagged the HUDCO “Cost Effective and disaster resilient rural housing Award-2015”.