Housing for Shipmakers

The project is for the shipmakers who make the traditional wooden ships in the western coast of India in the gulf of Kutch. The industry is sinking under the `Thunder of Modernism` and the only chance of survival for them is their identity of art. The proposed program is to create the social environment of the housing and developing the place as a community of shipmaking place where the household activity and shipmaking activity runs side by side, where the idea is to create the very low cost dwellings with reusable materials because the salary of the workers average 200$ a month. The modular housing was the best option but without losing the unbuilt character of the old city of Mandvi where the workers are from. These modular forms are characterised by the adobe bricks and reused bamboos. The total cost came upto 2950$ per unit.

Housing for Shipmakers by Anand Mata in India won the WA Award Cycle 1. Please find below the WA Award poster for this project.