Abstract
There are three rating systems available to assess the sustainability of Group Housing in India provided by three agencies, namely the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA), and Eco Housing Assessment Criteria's. The parameters for all three rating systems have some differentials. The building rated under one rating system may not obtain a rating under another rating system. It means that designers' attention is restricted to the rating system's criteria and has lost the sustainable design process's true spirit. This paper aims to establish the Principles of Design that meet all the rating system's maximum criteria. The methodology followed for this paper includes a brief review of all rating systems and a comparative analysis of similarity and dissimilarity to understand the key focus areas of all three rating systems. The Principles of Design are applied to fulfill all the three-rating system requirements with each focus area. The applications of design principles in the project indicate that only a certain number of Principles of Design are applied to achieve the rating system in each project, and many Principles of Design are overlooked. This was due to the designer's approach to sustainable buildings as a product based on the rating system. The Principles of Design generated in this paper will be a ready source of guidance for India's sustainable housing design. The designer should initially approach sustainable design as a design process and, later on, achieve a sustainable design for a specific rating system.
Highlights
India's population has multiplied over the last few decades
The analysis and discussion are divided into three parts; the first part consists of defining the focus area of the study using a comparative analysis of the rating system; the second part consists of drawing up the concepts of sustainable housing design through means of a detailed comparative analysis of the rating system in a targeted area
There are agencies such as the Indian Green Building Council (IGBC), the Green Rating for Integrated Habitat Assessment (GRIHA), the Eco Housing Assessment Criteria, which evaluate sustainable designs for different parameters and offer various building certifications, as shown in Table 2, Table 4 and Table 6. They are called the rating system, and these agencies are called rating agencies. These evaluation systems remain silent on the design process and are more interested in the product; many design processes have recently been integrated into the GRIHA rating system
Summary
There is a shortage of facilities in India at all levels; India's lack of accommodation is a significant problem. This housing shortage is more critical in urban centers due to rapid urban growth of 2.8 percent over 2001-2011, resulting in a rise in urbanization from 27.8 percent to 31.2 percent. The report submitted by the technical committee of the Ministry of Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation (MHUPA) in 2012 estimated almost 18.78 million household shortages in India. It has led to a shortage of essential services like potable water, sewage network, sanitation facility, electricity roads, waste disposal, and many more. Rapid urbanization has led to the destruction of green covers and water bodies. Rapid urbanization has led to the destruction of green covers and water bodies. [2] The housing sector has a large share of rapid urbanization
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