The interesting feature of this one-roomed house is the new type of material used for the roof and walls. Saw dust, wheat husk etc., have been synthesised into a board and it is claimed that this is water-tight as well as heat-proof.
"55.—Pitamber Dosabhai Patel—Bhavanagar." In Model houses constructed in the international exhibition on low-cost housing, 1954, 112-113. New Delhi, India: Manager of Publications - Ministry of Works, Housing and Supply, 1956.↧