KOCHI:
ASADI(Asian School of Architecture & Design Innovations), Cochin, has taken up a ten year programme of Research and Development (R&D) to develop an ideal model of cost effective housing project for the billions of homeless people.
The project is aptly named as “HOME FOR THE BILLIONS”.The R&D project was done jointly by 76 students of second and third year divided into six groups, and each group researching on different aspects of the housing projects like technology, materials, social acceptance etc. Leading architects of Kerala, after appraising the 76 designs, shortlisted 12 designs as the best of them.
Recently, Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, Kochi, had taken up construction of a large number of houses for the flood victims in and around Ernakulam. It was a great honour for ASADI and its students when Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan decided to choose the design prepared by third year student Ms. Ansu P. Joy out of the twelve shortlisted designs.
At a function held at Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan auditorium at TD Road today at 10 am, Ansu P. Joy was felicitated and also handed over a memento and a cash prize on the occasion in recognition of choosing her design. ASADI is one of the very few architecture colleges in the country which undertakes R&D work for students of architecture, especially for cost effective housing.
