Mass Housing for Squatter Settlements Using Pre-Cut Bamboo Building Systems

Aesthetics is not ‘something out of this world’ that happens in ‘Parises’ and ‘New Yorks’ and ‘Bombays’ and at exorbitant prices.” (Vinoo Kaley, cp. “Build your House”). The current work tries to improve, to embellish and to simplify life for slum dwellers by creating a module system for their housing needs. It can be prefabricated, but it can also easily constructed, developed and enlarged by the inhabitants themselves.