(From the pages of architect’s journal)
Blog post 6 of 8 (Part C: Villages)
EOD_11th May 2019
Day 3
Yes! Here is to the completion of 50 houses at Gauribidanaur Taluka. That one decision to push on the first day made it possible to close the study in three days.
Brief:
Heading towards Nagargere panchayat, we traveled around in an auto with the Bill Collector and the nurse (Hindi speaking), who weren’t very pleased working with us. They were more than glad to let go at the end of the day. Haha!
But, yeah. We needed them.
We requested to be taken to a small, medium, and big village. Aiman handled the conversation bit, and as usual, I saved up my energy and put that into documenting the houses.
We had two FGDs with not much a change in the opinions and perspectives than the previous ones.
Observations:
We have reached that point where there is an overlap of planning and functionality with few variations between the earlier studied ones.
Taking you on a pictorial tour of the villages we visited-
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Nivasa blog 