Aranya Low Cost Housing

Recipient of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in 1996, this low cost housing scheme accommodates more than 80,000 people through a system of houses, courtyards and a labyrinth of internal pathways.

For the Indian architect, these were not houses but homes where a happy community lives, and that, in the end, is what matters. Lanes and small courts give the settlement a shared life, while each family is free to build on and adapt its own home over time.