Urban home : an examination of the design of compact living with special reference to selected urban poor settlement

Abstract

"Compact Living" in such compact spaces appears primarily with the reduction of the land available for the human habitation. concentration of the people around the limited resources where as in an urban context. Also the physical comfort of man partly depends on the affordability of them to get spatial need fulfilled. In the case the problem of "compact living" is crucial for the urban poor. So housing. the poor is considered as important in a developing process of a country or a state. The Sri Lankan government & some of non-governmental organization also have· going through such development project and provided housing for the urban poor. But unfortunately most of these houses and the housing scheme design by the Architect and Non- Architect have become failures with the negligence of target user group. It is visible in the physical change take place in the housing unit. And the housing scheme, and to returning familiar environments after selling the housing units offered. So at the end of every thing the problem to be solved remains unchanged. making the governing body seek for different solution.