Case Study

Case Study
Housing, or more generally living spaces, refers

to the construction and assigned usage of
houses or buildings collectively, for the purpose
of sheltering people — the planning or provision
delivered by an authority, with related meanings.
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Housing Building Type…
Building types of housing-
By Architect Charles Correa
Tazrima parvin 59
Tonima
About
•Location - Alaknanada, New
Delhi, India
•Principal Architect -Charles Correa
•Area - 3.7 Acres
•Number of units -160 units of 2 and 3
bedrooms.
•Density -375 people per
hectare
•Program -Residential center
for middle-class
•Client -Tara Cooperative
Group Housing Society
•Cost -$ 1.48 million
•Structural system -Reinforced concrete,
brick walls
60
Site Location
• The project is located along
Guru Ravidas Marg Street
which leads to two big
residential areas in the North
and the South. It is in the
suburb of middle-class.
INDIA
Building location 61
Site Surroundings
• The project plays an

important
connector, linking other
buildings with the
adjacent park.
• There are many schools
adjoining the complex,
as well as community
markets and other
commercial areas.
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Site Surroundings
• Park and Forest
• School
• Bank
• Mandir
• Church
• Apartments
63
A
Site Evaluation
• The building turns its back on the
street to prevent noise, dust from
the high flow vehicles.
• Being staked as a row, central
garden, big overhangs and sharp
A‟
edges, all give these buildings a
sense of Indian characteristic
under hot sun, full of light
without suffering from high
temperature.
Section A-A‟
South East
Section 64
Site Evaluation
Porosity
Main Site Entrances
Car Circulation
Slow Road Network

65
Concept
• The main concept of Tara
housing project is a creative
VERNACULAR TYPOLOGY in
term of arranging and piling the
singular flat into united blocks.
• By separating with the outside
world and providing an interior
garden the building preserves
well PRIVATE LIFE of families
within.
66
Site Plan
Housing Block
Community Space
Pedestrian walkway
Green space
67
Building pattern
• The duplex units are accessed
either at ground floor or second
floor levels by outdoor stair
cases.
• Two kinds of flat: two-bedroom
flats- 84 sq. m(3 m wide, 6 m
high with two floors and 15 m
long, three-bedroom flats -130
sq. m.
• Each unit is provided an open
terrace which is protected by a
pergola and big overhangs.
Two-bedroom flat
• Two sides of the project are
connected by staircases. Three-bedroom
flat
68
Two Bedroom Type
Ground Floor Plan
• The complex is formed due to
the combination between pairs
of accommodation units.
• The second floor which is larger
than the ground one with a big
overhang that rises further Second Floor Plan
approximately 6 m gives the
mixture between shadow and
light.
• The duplex above is also push
back hence front of the below
one is protected too.
• In that way, the whole central
garden is full filled with shadow.
Section 69
Flat A„s ground floor plan
Three Bedroom Type

• In the shape of “L”, this type Flat B‟sground floor plan
seems to be difficult to attach in
the middle of a cluster and all of
them are located in the outer- Three-bedroom type
most.
Flat A‟ssecond floor plan
Flat two‟ssecond floor plan
70
Design Features
• The concept of building allows people to access directly to the interior garden
71
Design Features
• Everyone has their own open-to- sky terraces with full filled shadow.
• Provides thermal relief to inhabitants during the harsh summer sun, with big overhangs over
the units and a central garden, allowing infiltration of ample light within the units while
preventing high temperatures.
72
Design Features
• The project takes big advantages from natural resources like lighting and ventilation and all
families share these features equally.
Natural Ventilation
73
Design Features
• Only pedestrians are allowed
to enter the housing group and
the parking lot features in the
back of the building.
• Indian architectural elements
are illustrated with the use of
concrete bands ,panels of
exposed brick, portals ,
overhangs and shape edges.
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View from the periphery of
the site of the Terraced
Flats..
75
View of the
Community Space..
76
Terraced gardens defined by
Sun
the over head
Protecting Beam..
77
Stair leading to the upper
floor..
78
Living room looking onto the
Open Space..
79
Axonometric view of the
Interlocking Flats..
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Housing, or more generally living spaces, refers

• The project plays an

• Park and Forest

Slow Road Network

Three Bedroom Type

Flat two‟ssecond floor plan

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