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This book analyzes the reasons of spontaneous transformation in
self-built houses in the context of developing countries.
Recognizing Housing Transformation as a natural phenomenon, the
book focuses on self-built houses in the city of Dhaka. Firstly, it
explains the explicit reasons behind spontaneous housing
transformations. Then the book carefully unveils the implicit
values that are hidden behind those explicit reasons. The entire
book is an ethnographic journey, which expresses unique stories
behind houses in transformation.
This book describes and analyzes the phenomenon of spontaneous
transformation in self-built houses in the context of developing
countries. After describing briefly the history of self-built
houses and the phenomenon of transformation around the world, it
focuses on its context, the city of Dhaka. Firstly it describes the
physical patterns of spontaneous transformation. Then it explains
the explicit reasons behind those transformations. Finally, it
carefully unveils the implicit values that are hidden behind those
explicit reasons. The entire book is an ethnographic journey, which
not only expresses unique stories of living with transformation,
but also captivates the reader throughout with its compelling way
of qualitative judgment.
Sustainability is the major concern in today's world. In built
environment, it has tremendous significance. Housing, as its major
bulk, needs serious attention on all the three major pillars of
sustainability. Turning to the environmental aspects, there are
different active and passive design elements that can be
incorporated with housing. However, it varies from context to
context. This book tried to identify environmentally sustainable
elements of housing in the hot-humid climate in Malaysia through
extensive literature review. After that, it conducted field survey
to find out the affordable ones among them which could address the
big group of middle income people in the country. With that, the
study tried to find out the economic feasibility of those
environmentally sustainable elements. Categorizing them as
user-controlled and designer-controlled elements, results showed
that several user-controlled passive and active elements were not
affordable, though they had been highly regarded as sustainable
elements. At the end, the study highlighted the significance of
adding affordability to sustainability so that it can eventually
contribute to the biggest bulk in built environment.
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