EVERYDAY ARCHITECTURE

Environment In Way of life and value Transition (associated with circumstances)

Arch 570 Informal studies on Housing

Everything is subject to change including “change”

Built

•Everyday architecture is consider as everyone’s everyday experience and activity. experience improved through his or her design with particular emphasis eider on smaller projects; be it in a house (interior or exterior) or in a business centers .

•Different form taken by the dwellings are natural phenomenon for which no single explanation will suffice (Rapoport, 1969).

•Different system of building had developed in various environment, these responds varies from place to place due to the differences in interplay of social, cultural and economic capabilities.

•The way our homes are designed, altered and our settlement arranged reflect the relationship between individual source of income and the community.

•People with different attitude and idea respond to different environment (Rapoport, 1969).

Characteristics of everyday architecture•Non compliance with the standard of open space.

•Everyday architecture is associated with unhealthy quarters and therefore detrimental to health.

•Lack of plan for basic social amenities and infrastructures.

•It can cause environmental degradation.

•Low standard of living due to everyday adjustment.

•Illegal subdivision of housing.

•Housing build on a property by the state or the third party.

•Little respect for current legislature

•Substandard housing/living and inadequate building structure (mostly in extensions).

•Inadequate basic services and functions due to everyday adjustment.

•Unhealthy living conditions and hazardous location.

•High Population density.

•Insufficient access to basic need and services.

•High risk of disasters due to lack of proper specification of materials.

Disadvantages of everyday architecture

•Door•Windows•Paint•tiles

renovationAS EVERYDAY ARCHITECTURE

Houses were a cultural index of wealth and sophistication. Hence, alterations and additions over the years reflect the changing social fabric of the individual, community, wealth, prestige, and expanding households.

•The built environment is a material, spatial and cultural product of human labor that combines physical elements and energy in forms and for living, storing, parking, working and playing.

everyday architecture

Condition of Built environment (as a result of everyday architecture): The term built environment refers to the human-made surroundings that provide the setting for human activity, ranging in scale from personal shelter and buildings to neighborhoods and cities that can often include their supporting infrastructures.

•Unorganized premises•Poor outlook•Squalor settlement

everyday architecture

•Inhabitants•Natural Phenomenon•Human phenomenon

everyday architectureCircumstances

everyday architecture

ExtensionEven in the formal houses

everyday architectureConversion

Façade Additioneveryday architecture

•Entrance porch•Window sun shade

New Living Roomeveryday architecture

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