dc.contributor.author |
Munasinghe, H |
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dc.date.accessioned |
2013-10-21T02:23:39Z |
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dc.date.available |
2013-10-21T02:23:39Z |
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dc.identifier.uri |
http://dl.lib.mrt.ac.lk/handle/123/8399 |
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dc.description.abstract |
Top-down approach used to build housing for
the Tsunami victims in Sri Lanka evolved
around the number of houses destroyed. The
selection of land and the number of units to
be built were donor-biased decisions. This
Building-Numbers may have satisfied the
donors and builders for quantification of their
achievements but not necessarily the
recipients for various reasons. Many
recipients have left those houses and some
never occupied theirs. Enlarging schism
between man, society and place, and further
displacing the settler as a result are defined
here as the research
problem. We have studied a few housing
projects in the Southern Province, using a
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multidisciplintfry approach framed by sociocultural
based settlement planning and
morphologically oriented house types. We
used qualitative research methods to collect
field data. Our findings suggest that building
of settlements that are beyond mere
collections of numbers could have had more
success in term of resurrecting the lost
villages. |
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dc.language |
en |
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dc.subject |
Human-settlements |
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dc.subject |
Social-space |
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dc.subject |
Place-making |
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dc.subject |
Sri Lanka |
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dc.title |
Building numbers: the case of post Tsunami housing in Sri Lanka |
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dc.type |
Conference-Abstract |
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dc.identifier.year |
2008 |
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dc.identifier.conference |
Built Environment and Its Futures |
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dc.identifier.place |
Faculty of Architecture, University of Moratuwa |
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dc.identifier.proceeding |
2nd FARU Conference - 2008 |
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