Vikramaditya Karnawat

UR2019

The term 'migrant' is usually associated with a low-income worker in an urban city, and most 'migrant housing' serves this group of persons. These days, however, this group also comprises middle-income workers and professionals, who move to dense tier-1 cities for their jobs. This class of workers usually live alone and earn enough to afford a good living condition. Due to a lack of options though, they have to live in PGs (paying guest accommodation) or hostels -which are too small and temporary-, hotels -expensive and temporary-, or rent out an unnecessarily large apartment -counterproductive to the need for density in cities. These current typologies are not suitable to accommodate the modern lifestyle of these persons, and therefore there is a need to update this residential typology for the middle-class migrant person.