Re-Imagining Social Housing in Chennai Part 2 Project 2020 Mihir Sriram Aranala Manipal University | India The architectural vocabulary of modularity in the public housing schemes has impinged upon the notions in the way different communities perform their daily life in specific cultural settings. Housing has come to be viewed as a commodity, a typology to dwell rather than creating it as a microcosm of social life. Pushed both by the capitalist and creative forces, housing typologies many a times, do not imbibe to the ways of living of the community. Devoid of the social spaces, the spaces become oblivious to the everyday working of households and communities. This thesis project aims to develop a housing prototype, while setting contours of design for engaging with the social housing. Address the notions of community, inclusion, dignity and provide opening to perform social life in the backyard of the city. The architecture speaks for the spatial, social and economic needs of the residents, by introducing flexibility, contextuality and belongingness, thereby creating conducive environments to perform daily life for all the age groups. The project aims to retain identities and blur the exclusionary nature of social housing architecture while considering the shrinking urban space, and a need for viability and incrementality to sustain over a considerable horizon. Mihir Sriram Aranala Tutor(s) Purushottam Kesar