Page 28 - HUDCO DESIGN AWARDS 2022-23

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Housing is a basic right but soaring land
prices and exorbitant cost of materials make
dreams of owning a house difficult to achieve
for many across India. Current practices of
constructing houses in India tend to cut off
inhabitants from their surrounding natural
environment and pay little attention to the
environmental impacts of building materials
across their full life cycle. Moreover,
buildings in India are highly energy inefficient
and usually fail to factor in seasonal variations
or make use of available passive energy
sources. Most affordable housing projects
also fail to even provide quality living spaces
to its residents. By some estimates, India
has a demand for 50 million units, 97% of
houses in the affordable housing segment.
The high ecological costs of meeting this
important socio-economic right and possible
ways of avoiding this zero-sum game is not
getting the attention it should.

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