A modern housing solution for 700 million families in developing countries
This paper describes 12 years of research at Universiti Putra Malaysia in collaboration with a practicing architect and a building material entrepreneur. Honeycomb is a town planning concept of interlocking cul-de-sac courtyards. A novel survey was developed to evaluate the consumer acceptance of Ho...
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| author | Davis, Mohd Peter Yahaya, Nurizan Sabri, Bukryman Ibrahim Bajunid, Anniz Fazli Chou, Kan Yin Ghazali, Mazlin |
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| description | This paper describes 12 years of research at Universiti Putra Malaysia in collaboration with a practicing architect and a building material entrepreneur. Honeycomb is a town planning concept of interlocking cul-de-sac courtyards. A novel survey was developed to evaluate the consumer acceptance of Honeycomb houses. Honeycomb was preferred by 94% of 1385 respondents in 5 housing surveys across peninsular Malaysia, compared to 6% for equivalent conventional housing. 54% of that preference was ‘passionate’ about Honeycomb housing compared to only 3% for conventional housing. Honeycomb housing shows great promise as an example for under developed cities across the world. |
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| spelling | upm-480092016-08-04T08:34:10Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48009/ A modern housing solution for 700 million families in developing countries Davis, Mohd Peter Yahaya, Nurizan Sabri, Bukryman Ibrahim Bajunid, Anniz Fazli Chou, Kan Yin Ghazali, Mazlin This paper describes 12 years of research at Universiti Putra Malaysia in collaboration with a practicing architect and a building material entrepreneur. Honeycomb is a town planning concept of interlocking cul-de-sac courtyards. A novel survey was developed to evaluate the consumer acceptance of Honeycomb houses. Honeycomb was preferred by 94% of 1385 respondents in 5 housing surveys across peninsular Malaysia, compared to 6% for equivalent conventional housing. 54% of that preference was ‘passionate’ about Honeycomb housing compared to only 3% for conventional housing. Honeycomb housing shows great promise as an example for under developed cities across the world. Elsevier 2012 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48009/1/48009.pdf Davis, Mohd Peter and Yahaya, Nurizan and Sabri, Bukryman and Ibrahim Bajunid, Anniz Fazli and Chou, Kan Yin and Ghazali, Mazlin (2012) A modern housing solution for 700 million families in developing countries. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 49. pp. 237-244. ISSN 1877-0428 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042812031187 10.1016/j.sbspro.2012.07.022 |
| spellingShingle | Davis, Mohd Peter Yahaya, Nurizan Sabri, Bukryman Ibrahim Bajunid, Anniz Fazli Chou, Kan Yin Ghazali, Mazlin A modern housing solution for 700 million families in developing countries |
| title | A modern housing solution for 700 million families in developing countries |
| title_full | A modern housing solution for 700 million families in developing countries |
| title_fullStr | A modern housing solution for 700 million families in developing countries |
| title_full_unstemmed | A modern housing solution for 700 million families in developing countries |
| title_short | A modern housing solution for 700 million families in developing countries |
| title_sort | modern housing solution for 700 million families in developing countries |
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