They dont belong to any particular group. They cannot be separated on the basis of birthplace, religion or caste.

They are invisible in the day. They drive our rickshaws, run our food stalls, help in our constructions, pick up our trash, clean our streets, essentially, do everything that we would never do. Still we ignore them. Still we insult them. Still we accuse them crimes that they might or might not have committed. Are we so shallow, that we choose to see only what we feel is right. That we choose to ignore the downtrodden. Whose only fault was that they believed, no, they hoped that the grass was greener on the other side of the fence. A place far from home, a place they knew would mistreat them for being who they are. Is it wrong to hope? Wrong to dream of a better future? Isnt hope what gets YOU through your day. Hope that you will see your family tonight, hope for a hot meal, hope for a better job, a better salary, education for your children. So why cant these makers of our city, the ones who never complain and make do with what they get.hope for an opportunity? Give them a home..give them a chance.

The city has turned into a battlefield where the strong wrestle down the weak and the rich exploit and tyrannize over the poor. -- Kahlil Gibran

Show utilities near site?

Since our site is on the main street. We might not be able to justify it.

Sculpture, pottery, collage.

Tv in side room so people watch it only when something interesting is on. they arent always glued to the tv. Cost can be recovered with advertising boards? Since wer looking at spaces in the open.

New system of rent-take a certain % of income as rent.

homeless arent criminals, the system is. The homeless, far from being recognised as the asset they are to the city are seen by the decision makers, especially the bureaucracy that rules Delhi, as the other; the criminals; the beggars; the outcast; the unclean. Thus they are rendered and treated as being less than human. The grass root cause of homelessness is poverty. Which isnt restricted to the urban environment, it is also a part of rural India. Both are due to systemic or structural reasons. Poverty is not a personal failing. Its origins lie in caste discrimination, class division, communal divide, global processes of engineered growth and development: liberalisation, privatisation and globalisation. The complexities crop up due to the vested interests of politicians, bureaucrat. The economists are inclined to assert that the poor migrate to cities due to the pull factor (the attractions, glamour, trappings etc.). For politicians the answer is easy: put a check on migration by preventing the poor rural migrants from entering cities (the Delhi Finance Secretary has suggested this unconstitutional move.) For the politicians its unbridled population growth and the only way they want to check is to impose sons/daughters of soil mandate and whip up this agitation when things are going against them. The educated argue if everyone comes to the city, the city will choke, forgetting that many of them too have migrated to new states in search of job opportunities. But when you are qualified and migrate, the city needs you. You are a load if you are unskilled, unemployed and poor though you might be carrying heavy loads through thelas etc. and subsidising the cost of living of the citys elite.

So, in design our principal concern became the development of a sound structural framework that could accept different skins.

(from new carver apartments)