This is a house the specification of which has been designed in such a a manner that it is easy for the family itself to build it by stages. It uses some recent techniques for making raw earth suitable and reasonably durable building material. The house can also be constructed in rows and such construction would reduce the cost per house still further. The design is spacious and has a distinctly rural orientation.
"Rural.-A.—C.P.W.D. Model House—9. Two Roomed Rural House (by stages), Shaded—2nd stage of construction." In Model houses constructed in the international exhibition on low-cost housing, 1954, 130-131. New Delhi, India: Manager of Publications - Ministry of Works, Housing and Supply, 1956.↧