Interviews and Questionnaires

INTERVIEWS AND QUESTIONNAIRES FOR MY DESIGN

In my Year II of architecture, we were asked to do a rural project. This project involved students in groups travelling to rural areas within the state, studying their respective settlements and design anything which was missing and could be of help to the people there.

It was truly a different experience, being out of our comfort zone, language barrier and location barrier. We asked many questions and interviewed the villagers in order to develop a design for them.

Some of the questions asked to the villagers:

1. Is there anything required in your village?

2. How do the children go to school?

3. Is there a market here?

4. How do you get water supplied?

5. Do you have electricity?

6. Is there a place of worship for you?

The questions helped to decide what to design for our project. We designed a school building within the village since the children had to walk a few miles to go to the nearest school. Due to time constraint, location and resources available, a detailed research could not be done