Architecture of Informality: November 2013

Fragmentation - reduction of authority and the growth of self regulated initiatives

Frame Line - pronounced enclosure of the privatized territory

Concurrency - spatial implications of the unequal simultaneous states of existence

Hybridization - invention resulting from the fusion of multiple influences

Minimal Commons - a bit of coexistence where there is nothing left to lose but a lot to add

Temporary Hierarchy - ability to take over particular spatial action for the limited time

Convertibles - potential of distorting limitations into a space of exchange

Compensation – exchanging expected service with a service of another sort

Expandability - capacity of hosting body to adapt to the uncoordinated external partitions

Shortcutting - fast break through congestion

Para Source – scratching the energy from the existing sources

Leftover - free space in between fulfilled desires

Raw End - unintentional result of the most literal application of the basic building tools

Under Construction - continual delay due to unstable process of development

Even in informal settlement there is a form of formality, various rules seem to guide the layout of the settlements for example, circulation, and boundaries are legible even in extreme cases. My question is: why is Hygiene and sanitation in most cases not being considered by inhabitants of informal settlement. Informal settlement in this case Slums, are productive breeding grounds for ailment such as tuberculosis, hepatitis, dengue, pneumonia, cholera, and diarrheal disease, despite this, hygiene and sanitation is of low concern to inhabitants. Yes it might be overwhelming for inhabitants to tackle this problem on their own due to lack infrastructures but there is also a visible ignorance of inhabitant to the subject matter. Inhabitants of slums are seen to turn their surroundings slowly to a dump site or in some case live in dump site. I seek to understand the reason of this phenomena and hopefully derive a solution or a proposal to aid the promotion of hygiene and sanitation in informal settlements.