HOUSING FOR LABOURS WORKING AT SHIP BREAKING

YARD ,ALANG
INTRODUCTION:
The Alang Ship Breaking Yard which has been functioning since 1983, has
dismantled nearly 6318 vessels till 2013 and produces three million metric
tons of scrap metal annually. ship breaking violates numerous national and
international regulations related to pollution, hazardous wastes, and labour
rights.
Inadequate health facilities have been tackled by the Supreme Court and
the Inter Ministerial Committee on Ship breaking to no avail. It was only
after Supreme Court directions in 1997 and 2003, that infrastructure was
built to handle hazardous wastes. There is a lack of housing, sanitation,
water and no education facilities for the workers children.
Ship breaking activities result in significant environmental impacts. There
are reports of cattle dying after eating the waste from dismantled ships and
people suffer respiratory and skin problems when rubbish dumps are set
on fire. Most of the nearby villages suffer from water scarcity and salinity.
A numbers of wells are so polluted that they have been abandoned,
according to the preliminary report.
The annual turnover of the industry stands at Rs 6,000 crore. There are
169 plots for ship breaking but only 132 plots are functional. Each plot
employs 150200 workers and towards the end of 2013 there were around
35,000 workers. At least one ship is dismantled a day and the workers are
mostly from Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Bihar, and Odisha earning daily
wages between Rs 235 to 255 a day. Around 92 percent of the workers earn
between Rs. 5000 to Rs. 10,000 per month.

SCOPE OF PROJECT:
Ship-recycling industry serves the society by providing
employment opportunity to thousands of workers hailing
from various states of the country, this project will also
provide them with their own abode. This housing project will
result in fulfillment of basic necessities and amenities of the
Alang Ship Recycling workers.
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AIM:
To create a Liveble, clean, place of living for labours
working under miserable conditions.
Stable, affordable and accessible housing linked to
health, justice and community support services is critical
to helping people live independently and improve life
opportunities related to family, work, education,
recreation or other pursuits.
Appropriate labour housing meets the needs of residents
in terms of size, physical attributes and location. The
main aim of labour housing at Alang is that it is safe and
does not affect the health or wellbeing of household
members in a negative way. It will accommodate the
daily requirements of residents, and allow sufficient
space and privacy for all.
OBJECTIVE:
The main Objective is to design the Labour Housing in a
way that the living conditions , basic necessities and
amenities of the Alang Ship Recycling workers are
fullfilled.
Housing and the communities in which people live often
shape the quality of life and opportunities they have.
The availability of suitable housing will very often have
a bearing on an individuals or a households ability to
achieve their goals.These opportunities may be fulfilled
by designing a housing for labours at shipbuilding yard.
JUSTIFICATION:

The Project will include hospital facility, a community

centre and a school for their children near the ship
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recycling yard itself which will improve the health and
fulfill their necessities.This project is appropriate for
thesis because it is addressing to humanity by
improving the conditions of living for a low income
group of people.
LIST OF PROGRAMMES:
HOUSES(UNITS ACCORDING TO NO OF FAMILY
MEMBERS)
o Entrance lobby,hall
o Bedrooms(according to necessity)
o Kitchen
o toilet
SAFETY AND TRAINING INSTITUTE
Safety Training programs will be held for the workers
related to Ship Breaking.
SHOPS AND STALLS
Grocery shops
Books.
Clothes
Local art & crafts
Food Stalls
Canteen

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HEALTH CENTRE AND CONSULTATION

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Help desk
Waiting Area.
Pharmacy
Staff room
Required no. of consultation rooms.
Doctors rooms.
Rooms for specialized treatments.
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o Toilet
ADDITIONAL FACILITIES
Parks
Childrens Play Area
Community Centre
INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITIES
Roads
Water Supply
Electricity
Fire Fighting
Community Sanitation
Awareness Drive Trough Hoardings

3.0 INFORMATION AND SOURCE

A. LOCATION
ALANG,GUJARAT
B. CASE STUDY
NET STUDY
TULOU HOUSING ,GUANGZHOU
The commission was to design a 220 apartment housing
complex for people for low income families in
Guangzhou. Urbanus decided to give the complex a nice
and intimate atmosphere, by reinterpreting the
traditional Hakka Houses.

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This housing typology correspond to 300 year old
houses in the south and they are basically a large
housing project where complete families live as a
community (aunts, nieces, nephews, etc

CULTURAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT

Since the beginning of the millennium, the architects of the globe
have not only brought their cutting-edge designs to China, but
also drew the whole world's attention to what can be built in
China. Many domestic architects are opposed to the fact that
some well-known foreign architects have taken advantage of
China's eagerness to build dazzling modern cityscapes, thus some
have became the advocates to call to rediscover the traditional
Chinese architecture.

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The Hakka people built fortified earthern houses to defend
themselves against fierce animals and thieves. The layout of their
Tulou followed the Chinese dwelling tradition of "closed outside,
open inside" concept: an enclosed wall with living quarters around
the peripheral and a common courtyard at the center. These
round earthern houses captured the architects fascination with
its underlying design philosophy.
Resulting from extensive research into the ancient heritage and
the social dynamics of current urbanisation trends in China, the
urban Tulou has been seen as a unique experiment in low-income
housing and the transformation of vernacular dwelling to suit
contemporary living environments. By introducing a 'new Tulou'
to modern cities and by careful experimentation of form and
economy, one can transcend conventional urban design.
URBANUS experiments explored ways to stitch the Tulou within
the existing urban fabric of the city. The close proximity of each
tulou building helps insulate the users from the chaos and noise
of the outside environment, while creating an intimate and
comfortable environment inside. A round shape would virtually fit
in anywhere .
This project successfully addressed how the old vernacular can
provide inspiration for modern low income housing that has a
strong communal focus, and improves the lives of migrants in
urban enclaves in China today.
MATERIALS AND BUILDING TECHNIQUES
The entire structure is wrapped in a perforated concrete shell
punctuated by wooden lattices that shade the balconies, giving
each unit a secondary living space. The design translates the
visual monotony inherent to an "e-shaped loop" with richly
textured inner and outer facade.
EARTH AND CLIMATE
In the south China, where there is a much longer summer season
and a relatively warm winter, it is necessary to prevent the
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penetration of the sun by using few windows, smaller courtyard
together with thick walls. Those are the technically sophisticated
features of the traditional Fujian Tulou.
Like the thick walls of pounded earth that functions as the
insulation from summer heat, Urbanus designed extra living
spaces by adding balconies to each unit. The balconies with
wooden lattices build a protective outer layer to foil direct
sunshine in the summer, while the open interior of the structure
creates a sense of space and light, as well as provides plenty of
natural ventilation.

PULLMAN A WORKERS TOWN,AMERICA

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REFERENCE http://somatheeram.in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayurveda

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