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CASE STUDIES
Figure 1: The dream house is a detached house surrounded by a garden also highlighted some specific
furniture and appliances which
included a sink, a gas stove, a
fridge, a TV, a sofa, a dining
table and a kitchen table. It also
showed an outside bathroom,
backyard, garden, external
stairways leading to a balcony
or roof terrace and a fence (see
figure 4).
Greenery
All of the respondents expressed
in their drawings their desire
to have a garden surrounding
the house with trees, flower
pots and in many instances a
children’s playground which
were graphically represented
Figure 2: Examples of distinct architectural features of the dream house
by drawing playing equipment
such as balls and swings. A
playground for children or a park
was a recurrent element in more
than half of the drawings (11 of
N=18). The majority of drawings
depicted the surrounding built
environment by including roads,
Figure 3: Urban facilities around the “fenced” dream house markets, schools and hospitals,
and it was noted that they did
not include greenery in those
areas. The greenery was clearly
related to the area surrounding
Two of the drawings consisted bathroom was inside. their houses which included
of a floor plan rather than a One participant drew a greenery in the form of roof
front view of the house, and particular floor plan which was terraces (See figure 5).
one provided a section of the quite detailed, it contained a
house showing its interior separate kitchen representing Urban facilities and
spatial arrangement. Although one third of the total floor area, infrastructure
it was not representative of all two bedrooms which included More than half of the respondents
the examples, some features of private bathrooms, a Pooja included in their drawings the
the dream house were able to be room and a shared dining and proximity of the dream house to
elicited. An important feature living room space. There was a number of key infrastructures
was that the toilets were not also a garage with a car and such as roads (N=14), hospitals
placed inside the house, but the a motorbike. The floor plan (N=13), schools (N=12), some
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