Aranya Low-Cost Housing by B.V. Doshi

Aranya Low Cost Housing, designed by Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi accommodates over 80,000 individuals through a system of houses, courtyards and a labyrinth of internal pathways. The community is comprised of over 6,500 residences, amongst six sectors - each of which features a range of housing options, from modest one-room units to spacious houses, to accommodate a range of incomes.

[@svyatoslav7500]

If it falied, it's not supposed to be considered bad, just not perfect. But it was a great step into the real world where architects and urbanists are needed not only by middle-class well-educated families.

[@freovegan]

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing this intriguing example of alternative planning. So sad it didn’t get completed. Do you know of other examples of inclusive planning?

[@error-xn7hn]

Alejandro Aravena's half houses seem like a similar idea in some ways. They were building social housing and they'd build the complicated bits of a house like the bathroom. But they'd leave the house unfinished. As the owners had money they could add more bedrooms and verandas etc.

[@user-zf3xb3qx8w]

a labyrinth.......so much for fire response?? assuming an eXTREMELY safe, non violent community.

[@manhoosnick]

In India there are whole villages and areas where there is no police, pwople regulate themselves.

[@mshtysf4646]

its not the west, people here like to live next to each others.

[@parekhayan]

Common sense is not so common. B.v. doshi's failed designs proved that.

[@nmo3148]

horrible. he replicated dense illegal slum housing in other parts of the country. And how is a 350 meter sq ft plot leading to this cramped homes?

[@shrinivaschavan4036]

Failed project