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    Asian Games Village at Haus Khaz by Raj Rewal

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    The document summarizes an Asian games village housing project located in New Delhi, India that was constructed between 1980-1982. It was a family housing development built using a concrete construction system to address the hot climate. The architect designed the low-rise, high density development to reflect traditional Indian layouts like Jaipur and Jaiselmer by clustering buildings, incorporating courtyards as public spaces, and including scattered terraces. The development contained approximately 500 housing units of various types, including townhouses and 2-4 story apartments, organized around narrow, shaded streets and walkways separated from vehicular traffic.

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    Asian Games Village at Haus Khaz by Raj Rewal

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    The document summarizes an Asian games village housing project located in New Delhi, India that was constructed between 1980-1982. It was a family housing development built using a concrete construction system to address the hot climate. The architect designed the low-rise, high density development to reflect traditional Indian layouts like Jaipur and Jaiselmer by clustering buildings, incorporating courtyards as public spaces, and including scattered terraces. The development contained approximately 500 housing units of various types, including townhouses and 2-4 story apartments, organized around narrow, shaded streets and walkways separated from vehicular traffic.

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    The document summarizes an Asian games village housing project located in New Delhi, India that was constructed between 1980-1982. It was a family housing development built using a concrete construction system to address the hot climate. The architect designed the low-rise, high density development to reflect traditional Indian layouts like Jaipur and Jaiselmer by clustering buildings, incorporating courtyards as public spaces, and including scattered terraces. The development contained approximately 500 housing units of various types, including townhouses and 2-4 story apartments, organized around narrow, shaded streets and walkways separated from vehicular traffic.

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    Asian Games Village at Haus Khaz by Raj Rewal

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    Gowthaman Maruthamuthu
    The document summarizes an Asian games village housing project located in New Delhi, India that was constructed between 1980-1982. It was a family housing development built using a concrete construction system to address the hot climate. The architect designed the low-rise, high density development to reflect traditional Indian layouts like Jaipur and Jaiselmer by clustering buildings, incorporating courtyards as public spaces, and including scattered terraces. The development contained approximately 500 housing units of various types, including townhouses and 2-4 story apartments, organized around narrow, shaded streets and walkways separated from vehicular traffic.

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    Project:

    Asian games village.

    Location: New Delhi, India

    Time period: 1980 to 1982

    Building Type: Family housing

    Construction System: Concrete

    Climate: Hot

    Context: Urban

    Style: Modern
    • In the Asian Games housing ,the urban pattern of Jaipur and
    Jaiselmer has been explored.

    • The architect interwove three principle dictates that


    simultaneously conjoined traditional layouts with a
    contemporary response.

    1. Configuring a low rise


    2. High density development representative of the typical Indian
    ‘mohalla’ or community.
    3. Creating cluster formations ideal for the Indian climate .

    • In all, there are some 500 housing units, comprising 200


    individual town houses and 300 apartments in two Floors to
    four Floors with each unit type has variations according to
    areas.
    Design Feature:

    • CLUSTERING OF BUILDINGS

    • COURTYARDS PROVIDING PUBLIC SPACE WITHIN THE BUILDING.

    • SCATTER OF TERRACES PERMITTING YET ANOTHER SET OF


    ACTIVITIES

    • STREETS ARE NARROW, SHADED , BROKEN UP INTO SMALL UNITS


    CREATING PAUSES, POINTS OF REST & CHANGING

    • GATEWAYS ALLOW FOR A CHANGE & CONTAIN A CONTUNITY,


    BRIDGES FORMED BY LINKING 2 NEIGHBOURING HOUSES
    Design Feature
    1. CLUSTERING OF BUILDINGS: (Asian games village)
    2. COURTYARDS PROVIDING PUBLIC SPACE: Asian Games Village
    3. SCATTER OF TERRACES: Asian Games Village
    4. STREETS : NARROW, SHADED ,SMALL UNITS Asian Games Village
    5.GATEWAYS LINKING 2 NEIGHBOURING HOUSES: Asian Games Village
    Dining complex which is now used
    as a recreational and community
    center.

    The cubic solids and voids are


    characteristic of the Indian urban fabric.
    Vehicular and pedestrian movements is there by segregated but closely
    interlinked for convenience about 80% of the dwellings have access from
    both pedestrian enclosures as well as the parking areas.
    Peripheral roads are connected to cul-de-sac Parking Areas which in turn give
    access to individual garages or car porches attached to houses or apartment block.
    Green Areas and courtyards Are Spread All Over the Site which can be
    Accessed From 70% Of the Village
    The Terraces formed on the upper Floors provide for a semi- private space
    .Reminding us of the characteristics of the houses in Jaiselmer.
    A cluster in Asian games village –the basic unit of four apartments is designed in such
    a way that it can be linked with a Courtyard in Between to create a variety of
    interlinking spaces.
    Floor Plan For Type A Unit
    Floor Plan For Type B Unit

    Located on the periphery of the parking squares, the largest single units have a
    ground area of approximately 200 meters and have attached car porches and
    servants quarters .
    Floor Plan For Type C Unit

    The units has been designed so that it can form a cluster with either four or six
    units to create a variety of inner spaces.
    Floor Plan For Type D Unit
    A typical block designed in a way that it can be linked at all ends, including the front
    and can combine as different permutations that mix and merge to shape new
    elements, each adding a different experience.

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