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In this project, the basic planning unit is the back-garden i.e. an area which

cannot be entered except through one of the surrounding houses. This not only

provides special amenities and security to the families who live there, but gives a

special identity to their neighbourhood.

The idea was not to build an isolated company town, but instead to createworkers housing that was an organic part of the urbani!ation taking place

outside "angalore.

#ow in such context, how does one establish a certain modicum of order and

thus avoid growing urban chaos$ To address this issue, a %aster plan was

developed which, within the existing pattern of municipal roads, inlaid back

gardens of three basic si!es-making a fundamental di&erence to the lifestyles of

the families living around the garden. The leftover edges of the site were then

sealed o& with rows of individual plots, for sale to those owners who wish to build

independent houses.

The basic module is the smallest back-garden which, with the surrounding house-

plots, measures '(m x '(m. These are combined to form clusters of ), ', *+

modules. The roads servicing these modules are kept to very short cul-de-sacs,

so they can carry an unusually high level of service infrastructure underground

electric lines, cable television, etc. and yet remain a&ordable in context. In these

modules, each house is directly connected to the public roads at one end and to

the community back-garden at the other. utsider access to these back-garden

is possible only at certain gateway entrances at which are located public

amenities kindergartens, community centres, etc. to provide easy an informal

control.