Affordable Mosaic Housing: Rethinking Low-Cost Housing

• Main Authors: Bajunid, AFI (Author), Ghazali, M (Author)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
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 "Low-Cost Housing" assumes the challenge is to find innovative ways to reduce the cost of building houses making it affordable for every family to own. This paper addresses the problem through a social standpoint by first reviewing this crisis by providing the complexities that leads to concentration of poor families, and then provide a theoretical alternative - the Affordable Mosaic Housing concept, a possible inventive solution. A methodology of testing this concept is then proposed by mirroring closely to the methods and results of Universiti Putra Malaysia's surveys on the perceptions and acceptance of the new Honeycomb houses and apartments. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and peer-review under responsibility of Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies (cE-Bs), Faculty of Architecture, Planning & Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia