hhabitations communs/ eco conception

HABITATIONS COMMUNS/ eco conception

P r o b l e m a t i q u e


«TRASH CITY», cairo , egypt/ 36,500 people per km²Officially known as Manshiyat Naser, this district has shops and apartments like any other, but its residents earn their keep by specializing in collecting, sorting and recycling specific types of trashed materials.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manshiyat_naser




More amazing than the trash-strewn architecture and garbage-stuffed city streets is the strange fact that this place is fully occupied and abuzz with activity. People live, work, eat and sleep within this object graveyard outside the city center.


MUMBAI/ 34,000 people per km²Millions of Indians flock to urban centres for work, contributing to the current housing shortage of 25 million homes across Indian cities. Nearly 55 percent of Mumbai's population live in slums.


«favelas» rio de janeiro, brasil/ 9, 000 people per km²Complex urban communities. Some of them are so large that they are almost small cities within a bigger city. (Rocinha, Rio's largest slum, About 250,000 habitants).


ISTAMBUL/7,700people per km²In order to accommodate a growing need for housing, squatter settlements called gecekondu (‘built overnight’) have been constructed as ‘make-shift’ shelters on the outer edges of Istanbul.


MEXICO CITY / 5,800 people per km²Seventy percent of the total population of Mexico resides in the urban cities of Mexico. Population around Mexico City is near about 20 milllion, which ranks the city among some of the most densely populated area in the world.


TOKYO / 4,750 people per km²Tokyo is a major urban agglomeration. With a population of over 12 million, or about 10 percent of Japan's population, Tokyo is by far the country's most populous and most densely populated prefecture..


LONDON/ 4,500 people per km²London, one of the oldest world’s mega-city, took 100 years to grow from a population of 1 million to 10 million in the 19th century. It is now the 360th fastest-growing city in the world, adding only 2.3 new residents an hour (less than one-tenth of Shanghai's rate).


JOHANNESBURG/ 2,500 people per km²Due to fear of crime and more freedom of housing choice in the post-apartheid era, many people in Johannesburg have moved out to the suburbs, leaving an empty heart of the city.

Rank City / Urban area Country PopulationLand area(in sqKm)

Density(people per sqKm)

1 Mumbai India 14,350,000 484 29,650

2 Kolkata India 12,700,000 531 23,900

3 Karachi Pakistan 9,800,000 518 18,900

4 Lagos Nigeria 13,400,000 738 18,150

5 Shenzhen China 8,000,000 466 17,150

6 Seoul/Incheon South Korea 17,500,000 1,049 16,700

7 Taipei Taiwan 5,700,000 376 15,200

8 Chennai India 5,950,000 414 14,350

9 Bogota Colombia 7,000,000 518 13,500

10 Shanghai China 10,000,000 746 13,400


Largest cities in the world raked by population densityLARGEST CITIES RANKED BY LAND AREA, POPULATION AND DENSITY / http://www.citymayors.com/statistics/largest-cities-density-125.html


S o l u t i o n s


Microfltas/ londonMicroflat is a proposal for affordable high-density housing in London. Borrowing from boating design, where every inch of space counts, Microflat, a 344-square-foot pod, which despite its name, is large enough for a king-size bed, a sofa, a desk and a table that seats six.


Arch Street housing. Londonhigh-rise social housing . Arch Street will be used to house some of the residents who have had to leave the Estate. The estate was built as a model for urban housing in the 70s .The small-scale operation is surrounded by much taller blocks of flats and is constructed on a site having several limiting factors.


JAPANESE DWELLING COMPLEXSUpport functions (such as storage and restrooms) are situated on the first floor to allow occupants maximum leisure, cooking and sleeping use of their respective upstairs areas via small living-and-bedroom zones and kitchenettes.


MODULAR CITIESWe may be on the verge of a whole new genre of smaller more sustainable housing – this much is not all that surprising to those who closely follow housing trends.


The Solar Settlement in Freiburg by Rolf Disch Solar Architecturean ensemble of multistory townhomes and a commercial building. The 59 homes are divided among 11,000 m2, 9 of which are penthouses on the Sun Ship roof. All of them are PlusEnergy homes, which produce more energy than they consume and whose supplementary income heavily outweighs the low additional costs.


HABITAT 67 one-of-a-kind housing complex located in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Habitat 67 developed out of architect Moshe Safdie's 1961 thesis design project and report ("A Three-Dimensional Modular Building System" and "A Case for City Living" respectively).

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