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The rural population in India, below the poverty line, are entitled to a free house through a national housing scheme called, Indira Awas Yojna ( Indira House Scheme). However, the funds for the house are only dispersed if the homeowner builds a ‘pukka’ (permanent) house with cement and concrete. Thus deeming all rural indigenous ways of building obsolete.
GRIHA
HOUSING
PROTO
TYPE
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Architect
Aditi Nair
Akhila Shankar
Meenakshi Karuppiah
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goal
Through innovative materials like the interlocking mud block, NIVASA built prototypes to push the idea of sustainability in the national rural housing schemes. The first prototype was built in Udupi.

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Process




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IMpaCT
We built 300 sq ft house for a family of 4 in interlocking bricks, made with local laterite stone all within 3000$
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