Mass manufacturing building components for affordable housing


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Creator/Artist: Amol Pakhale

Category: Product Design

Document: P2 Project

Batch: 2012-2014

Source: India,   IDC

Period:  2009-2018

Medium: Report pdf

Supervisor: Prof. B. K. Chakravarthy


Detailed Description

Now a day’s houses are not affordable due to high land value and lack of mass production in building components. Mass production not only reduces the price of component but it also provides high quality surface finish at very less period of time.The idea is to design and develop mass producible building components like door – window, balcony, staircase, plumbing and electrical systems etc, which can help us to reduce the overall cost and time during construction, which would help us to make houses affordable for lower middle class people.Many cost effective and time saving alternatives are explored prior to implementation of mass manufacturing components for housing during this program and that could be implemented with high time and high technological research. Some of these alternatives may be discarded after little study; some appear immediately attractive; and others must be studied at some length before their attractiveness can be evaluated.This project identifies the need of a faster system of housing delivery and attempts to determine the appropriate form, process and techniques for industrialized housing, which can cater the need, in Indian context.