• Ramanan V Subbiah
• Muthaiah Kathiresan
• Sheeba Chander

Housing demand continues to be on a high in spite of the recent increase in construction prices and lending interest rates. Recent survey by ANAROCK states that nearly 63% of the available housing inventory across the country falls in the affordable and mid segment category. The industry in order to deliver more housing units within shorter span of time is adopting monolithic concrete technology for walls using aluminium formwork in both private and public sector housing projects in the metros in India. At this juncture it is also noticed by the report published by Centre for Science and Environment [17] that the energy demands from such residential units would sky rocket due to heat becoming trapped within them. In the quest for mass housing coupled faster construction and delivery of housing units, thermal comfort [1] and on ground affordability have to be factored. Accomplishment of the goals only on arithmetic terms of national housing policy merely by faster construction time to increase supply of housing units with poor thermal performance may not be a worthwhile endeavor. In this paper, an attempt has been made to use architectural design strategies to explore possibilities for better thermal comfort for mass housing for the affordable housing sector as a part of M. Arch Housing Executive thesis (2022).

Thermal comfort, affordable housing, warm- humid, concrete technology

"THERMAL COMFORT IN MASS AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR HOT AND HUMID REGIONS: DESIGN STRATEGIESFOR LIG & EWS AT THIRUNINDRAVUR, CHENNAI", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no.b19-b29, August-2022, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208104.pdf

"THERMAL COMFORT IN MASS AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOR HOT AND HUMID REGIONS: DESIGN STRATEGIESFOR LIG & EWS AT THIRUNINDRAVUR, CHENNAI", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.9, Issue 8, page no. ppb19-b29, August-2022, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR2208104.pdf