Continuing on the initiatives of previous years, Vastu-Shilpa Foundation this year conducted two International Habitat Design Studios. One of which was a ten day workshop for 30 students from Curtin University in Australia while the other one was eight week long and was participated in by twenty five student from architectural schools in Germany, Switzerland and India. Studio this year was focused on "Sustainable and Affordable Living Environments" and was conducted from 20th February to 20th April 2005. The emphasis of the studio was to understand the urban Indian context, analyze its social, cultural, political, environmental conditions and evolve innovative design solutions for humane and sustainable built forms in urban centres of India. Living environments of the poor were chosen as the context for their redevelopment. A site of Ramdevpir Tekra, Wadaj and Gulbai Tekra were selected for the studio. Alternative development models are evolved to demonstrate how city could benefit through holistic development vision as well as coordinated and integrated planning processes. Prof. Balkrishna Doshi, Prof.Yatin Pandya and Prof. Rajeev Kathpalia conducted the studio at Ahmedabad at Vastu Shilpa Foundation's premises. Prof. Haresh Pandya (Germany) was the coordinator in Europe. While, Prof. Reena Tiwari (Australia), Prof. Anne Farren (Australia) Prof. Juerg Grunder (Switzerland), Prof. Claus Steffan (Germany), Prof. Jan Knippers (Germany) , Prof. Mathey Costa (Germany), Prof.Hannalore Deubzer were faculty from respective schools.