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Housing is about creating communities, neighbourhoods, and livelihoods. Laurie Baker's colony housing provides all these.
Reach housing block consists of about 16 units of approximately 35sq.m. size. The units are stacked in a way that each unit in the higher level has an open terrace of approximately 14 sq.m.
These terrace spaces are more than just bonus areas. They are places where people who could grow plants, commune, celebrate, engage in a small cottage industry, and gives a breather compared to the small unit size that they could afford.
Laurie Baker shows us that innovative housing designs are possible within small budgets as well. How many housing schemes for the EWS and LIG people even approach housing as a community-building, livelihood-ensuring enterprise?
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