THIRUVANANTHAPURAM, March
2, 2013
Updated: March 2, 2013 10:59 IST
The residence that received the award in the Green Building
category.
The projects get the HUDCO Design Awards for being environment-friendly and cost-effective.
Two projects of the Centre of Science and Technology For Rural
Development (COSTFORD) have earned recognition in the national-level
competition conducted by the Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO).
The HUDCO Design Awards were for COSTFORD’s environment-friendly
and cost-effective housing project for the Karimadom Colony here, under the
category for Cost-effective Rural/Urban Housing including disaster resistant
housing. The Karimadom project came second among four prize winners; while
COSTFORD joint director and architect P.B. Sajan and his wife Shailaja Nair’s
residence at Powdikonam, near the city, won the second prize in the category
‘Green Buildings’. The prizes were of Rs.50,000 each. Mr. Sajan received the
awards at a function in New Delhi on February 22.
Karimadom Colony
The Karimadom Colony project was entrusted to COSTFORD by the
Thiruvananthapuram Municipal Corporation as part of its slum eradication
programme, following which the centre went in for Laurie Baker’s cost-effective
and environment-friendly housing concept. The project envisaged new houses for
560 families, out of which seven complexes housing 140 families, have been
completed so far in two phases. The project included planting of tree saplings,
cleaning of the pond in the colony, an education centre for children, a
building for women’s self-help groups, bio-gas plants, and play area.
The award for Mr. Sajan’s Baker-style home, spanning 2,700 sq ft
and which cost only Rs.20.5 lakh, came for its design, affordability, and usage
of environment-friendly building material, including bamboo and mud and
‘re-cycled’ material.
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