Saturday 20 November 2010

Self Help Communties

 
A very detailed book on building community architecture on a shoe string.
By Michael Seelig, printed byArchitectural record books, NewYork,1987
p83 The neighborhood cluster is organised arround a public square, which serves as ameeting place for the residents. It also contains such meeting facilities as water source and laundry area, the nursery school, nutrition center and sari-sari store
p52 Lightweight building components would be purchased by the inhabitants and connected to the support structure...The isometric drawing shows how the construction would be phased. The heavy building components, such as...public services...would be installed by the government

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