Conceptual design of the cost-effective Humanscapes project
Two of the major challenges facing the community at present
are a fragile economy and a severe lack of low-priced accommodation. Clearly,
the two are interlinked. However, while the economy has faced serious stresses
in the past – the decision of the Sri Aurobindo Society to cut off funding to
the community in the mid 1970s precipitated our first economic crisis – the
housing crisis has crept up on us. In the early years, finding accommodation
was not difficult. The accommodation tended to be very simple, but this was the
ethos of those times, and nobody seemed to feel disadvantaged living in a
temporary ‘capsule’ under keet.
Of course, there were also more ‘luxurious’ houses in places
like Certitude and Auromodele, but this form of permanent housing did not
become the norm until the late 1980s, when settlements like Samasti and
Surrender began to be built. This coincided with a new push to build the city,
and...
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