Analyzing the Built Form for Accommodating Cultural Diversity in Housing: Adaptation and Design Flexibility
Journal: Architecture Engineering and Science DOI: 10.32629/aes.v4i2.1231
Abstract
India has an age-old habit of aping the western world. Even today, the architecture of most of the metropolitan cities is not based on its immediate surrounding or microclimate instead; it is a creation of the current building trends of the west. The newly developed towns in India not only attempted to follow the trends of globalization and modernization but also got pulled in the whirlwind of the global culture. Today, this global culture is captivating the millennial generation of the city, who in turn is shedding away its traditional and cultural roots by transforming their lifestyles. These upcoming newly developed towns are being interrupted from expressing its diversified cultural and ethnic variation causing dissatisfaction amongst the people in long term. This paper tries to point out the reasons for dissatisfaction caused due to poor infrastructure in the residential sector that is available for adaptation into the urban life and questions the relevance of the existing housing trends in these cities that have failed to cater to the wellbeing of the society. This will be done by studying an established multi-cultural housing in Manitoba, Canada and Yamuna Apartments in New Delhi, India that has been accommodating diversity for decades. The paper discusses the need to preserve and enhance cultural expression and identity of an individual and the community in this era.
Keywords
built form, architecture, flexibility, cultural diversity, housing, India
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