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How much land does a man require?

The most basic piece of furniture is the single bed. Whether it be the bed of a king or a commoner, there is a basic size to it: 6 feet by 3 feet!

So how many such beds can one park in a rectangular room of say 10 feet by 10 feet? Surely not more than 2. It
doesn’t need an architect to answer that correctly. Anybody will give you that answer.

Now look   at the two   plans above. The   one on the left measures 10.1   sqm = 108 sft; it houses   3 beds. And the one   on the right, measures 14.9 sqm = 160 sft houses 4 beds. Areas mentioned are all carpet areas of the rooms excluding toilets and walls.

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As the  text  shows,  this design was submitted in a government sponsored architectural ideas competition.

When  the  results  fetched  this  entry nothing, I went and met the jury, who painstakingly    informed    me,  that  when housing   for   “such”   people   are looked at, the jury is on the look out for “Urban design.”

I further   realized   that   urban design here was just a method of giving all details a decent burial.

“These people   just spend   the   day working and   night sleeping. So   how   would   the details of their houses, such as the ones I had attempted, matter?”

Yes, what would matter is that when   “We”     drove   past,   the general area looked decent.

Let me qualify that nobody actually told me this, but it is the message I got!

My word on the Urban design of this entry: The   configuration     of   units   grew organically, something excellent in a small piece of urban design such as this.

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Based on the same, this is an MIG housing scheme with 3 design variations

C right on top Single bedroom unit, 51 sqm.
B right at the bottom Single bedroom unit, 59 sqm.

And A in between on FF & 2F, 2 bedroom unit, 88 sqm.

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A STAND-ALONE 2 BEDROOM HOUSE on GF & FF, 1200 sft total area.