Another project which takes its participants away from the city of Manchester, Slum City invites people to take a role in design exportable housing for the deprived in South-East Asia’s largest slum in Dharavi, India. The group are building units which can work separately or combined to address the issues of environment, security, sanitation and floods. They have split into four areas to tackle structure, facade, services and community units and will work together to produce a model at a scale of 1:25.
The units will be hexagonal and can fit together to build a solid unit up to two storeys high, raised off of the ground to avoid flood damage. The ground level will accommodate community units such as shops and gathering spaces. Although the units are to be fully exportable, they must be erected by the inhabitants so the facade and cladding should utilise local materials as much as possible so as to reduce costs and environmental impact. The budget for the units is £500, so the group will utilise cheap and scrap materials as much as possible. For example, plastic is a readily available scrap in the slums.
The model and process will be on display at the Event Month exhibition at EASA HQ on 22nd May.
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