HOUSING CASESTUDY
BY NANDINI SHAW
PROJECT:ORANJE CASTLE
Architects: Archohm
Area : 131602 m²(7 acre)
Year : 2022
Location: Lucknow(Near the Amar Shaheed path,
which is the main artery connecting the city to its
airport. Overlooking the Gomti River across its
green buffer)
Number of units:437
Typology:Mix(3BHK ,4BHK and 5BHK penthouses
with private terraces)
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At the Oranje Castle, the dwelling units are
arranged in a ring format along the periphery
around a large courtyard, the size of two
football fields, ensuring a landscape connection
for each apartment.
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The massive courtyard in the center creates
the maximum distance between two apartments
in a manner that the window of the neighbor is
the farthest possible, thus allowing enough
privacy as well as adequate natural light and
ventilation to all units.
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The concept for the central courtyard derives from the
traditional Indian garden, which features an eclectic
combination of live animals, water fountains, and lush
shade-giving plants.Along with this, the complex
geometries of traditional Indian textile design and the
evocative forms of contemporary artist Anish Kapoor.
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The program of the Brick Gardens comprises three
categories: Activity, Experience, and Sport.
ACTIVITY
EXPERIENCE
The activity consists
of the play elements in
the courtyard, while
Experience consists of
natural elements – an
aviary, pond, lawn, and
pergola, all punctuating
the brick gardens.
exciting forms have
evolved for the new
programs,
as
is
evident in the dome
of the bird cage and
in the play elements –
large sculptural brick
domes,
circular
openings in the floor
spanned
by
trampolines,
and
climbing nets.
SPORTS
Sports pitches are
accommodated in the
green band running
along the external
periphery of the
housing.
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The standard 3BHK apartments occupy the lower seven
floors, while the larger apartments with exclusive terraces
are located on the higher floors.
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The massing of the built form begins to get modulated at the
upper floors to make room for private terraces, thus,
breaking the monotony in the silhouette. As a result, no two
towers are identical.
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All terraces, which are at different levels, feature gardens
that render an additional green dimension to the project.
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The playfulness of the undulating skyline is extended onto the
brick-clad facade which is punctuated with balconies that are
of two kinds - hollowed out as well as projected from the
surface, lending a dynamic mass-void expression to the
housing complex.
Amenities
24 Hour power
backup
24 Hours Security
24 Hours Water
Supply
Basketball Court
CCTV
Children Play Area
Clubhouse
Firefighting System
Gated Community
Gym
Jogging Track
Kids Play Area
Parking
Power Backup
Sewage Plant
Swimming Pool
Volleyball court
Yoga center
PROJECT:VILLA VERDE
Architect:Alejendro Aravena
Location: Constitución, Chile
Project Typology: Housing
Size of Each Unit: 57 m²
Architectural style: Modern
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484 incremental housing units
Each housing unit had high-quality interior finishes
relatively luxurious fittings such as a solar water
heater, both tub and shower in the bathroom and a
dishwasher for the kitchen
thermally and acoustically insulated
row houses with two floors, made with a vernacular
wooden framework
Each delivered incremental housing unit was said to be
‘a half of good house’, which meant that users would
receive a half-built house with basic living necessities.
The vision of Aravena was to provide a basic but
dignified housing unit which later could be expanded
by users themselves.
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These minimalist units with an initial built-up area of 57 m² came
with a fully functioning kitchen, bathroom and living room on the
ground floor.
And two bedrooms, where four people can sleep comfortably on
the first floor. Additionally, each unit also had a front and back
yard.
Each half-built unit provided users with an opportunity to expand
their habitable spaces at and according to their comfort.
Inhabitants could extend/increase/expand their housing unit up to
85 m².
The extension can easily accommodate a relatively large living
space on the ground floor and two additional rooms on the first
floor.
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Each housing unit had a completed pitched roof and beams for
the first-floor slab. Hence, users only had to build two walls
and slabs by themselves during the extension process.
The provision of the almost complete structure not only
proved to be economical but also inspirational for the users.
Practical and simple architectural design elements make Villa Verde, a flexible, socially acceptable and financially feasible project. This ideal
model of incremental housing is inspirational because of numerous reasons. The most integral reason is that a byproduct of basic design
principles easily accommodates eight users in 85 m² in the most cost-efficient way.
Project:Ishatvam 9
Architects: Sanjay Puri Architects
Area : 80000 m²
Year : 2017
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As a response to this need, the apartments have been
designed to occupy a complete floor opening out on all sides
with each room extending into twenty feet high, double height
decks.
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Temperatures in Ranchi vary from 31ºC average in the summer
months,these extended decks for each room shelter the
internal spaces from the excessive heat in the summer while
becoming landscaped outdoor extensions to the rooms.
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The apartments are designed with minimal internal circulation
spaces with a large living dining area located centrally from
which all the rooms are accessed. This layout is done in
response to the social habits of the people in the city where 3
generations are generally living together in the same house.
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Ishatvam 9 is designed in response to the social needs of the
residents of the city of its location providing each apartment
with 20% open area as extensions to the internal spaces,
maximizing on natural light and air with cross ventilation to
every room in the house, creating an urban high rise tower
that will allow its users the openness of the low rise
structures that they have been used to living in.
Project:Aranya Low-cost Housing Case study
Project name: Aranya Housing Project
Architect:BV Doshi
Description: Incremental Housing Project, Low-income housing
Design: Vaastu-Shilpa Foundation
Building status: in use
Location: Indore, India
Vastushilpa
is
a
Sanskrit term meaning
the ‘art of the built
environment’, and the
Indian
architect
speaks
of
‘human
habitat’ rather than
‘architecture’.
Theme:The question of ownership is fundamental to the Indian architect,
who believes ‘building homes is about creating a sense of belonging, about
participatory involvement and about the expression of aspirations,
relationships and desires’.
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Commissioned in 1983 by the Indore Development Authority in response
to an acute shortage of housing, and co-funded by the World Bank and
India’s Housing and Urban Development Corporation (HUDCO), the
project’s low-cost housing was designed for the city’s Economically
Weaker Sections (EWS) as well as slum and street dwellers, providing a
framework and access to serviced land, rather than a finished house.
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Over time, in line with the needs, resources and desires of occupants,
homes begin to grow, creating a staggered flow of spaces from
private rooms to outdoor staircases to shared courtyards to
streets to open spaces to roads.
Planning Concept of Aranya Low-cost Housing
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Vitality – development to support socio-economic aspirations of the
community.
Imageability – built-form to impart identity and inculcate a sense of
belonging amongst the inhabitants.
Equity – to create an equitable balanced community with a satisfactory
level of environmental qualities and opportunities for all.
Efficiency – to realize development that optimizes natural, material, and
human resources to the user group’s advantage.
Flexibility – to evolve a framework that absorbs the progressive change
and growth as a part of the natural development process.
Feasibility – to ensure development within the given legal, fiscal, and
organizational milieu
The master plan was divided into six sectors with a central spine area of commercial and
institutional land use.The town Centre in the middle part of the spine consisted of four
clusters of shopping, residential and office complexes.(Langra, 2009)(Langra, 2009)
The high income group (HIG 9 per cent), is along the periphery of the national highway
and part on the south east border of the arterial road in the south. The middle income
group (MIG 14 %) is planned along the periphery of arterial roads on north – west side
and part on the south arterial road along the part of the spine. The lower income group
(LIG 11%)and the economically weaker sector (EWS 65%) are located in the middle of all
six sectors.
At Aranya, only a small sample of 80 model homes were built in 1989, loadbearing brick on a
concrete plinth with walls plastered and painted, to initiate the development. Railings,
parapets and cornices were added; doors and windows could be fabricated on site. The
architect drew only a set of ingredients to be appropriated, giving residents the language
and the space to ‘upgrade their life’. Growth is planned but informal, confined by the
masterplan’s hierarchy of built form and open spaces, and held together by a lattice of
infrastructural lines.
The building and strengthening of ties between social activities and physical structures
translates into specific architectural elements: the underlying plinth onto which are added
steps and ledges, shared landings, tiny balconies and open terraces. Here the idea is that
every space gets used, staircases are not just for going up and down, but also it provides an
extension of the home into the public sphere, Public life is allowed to seep into, extend and
permeate living spaces.
The Plan imitates the informal nature of a slum settlement. The Town Centre consists of four clusters of shopping, residential
and office complexes and at the end of Central spine to mixed use clusters.(Surjyatapa, 2016)
Residential clusters that open on 2 a street are comprise of 10 houses each with a rear courtyard for use as a play and service
area.
Open spaces and pedestrian pathways intersect and connect a clusters to the central spine internal streets and squares are
paved and the major roads and arteries that link The Town centre to other parts are Aranya and tarred.
Figure 21DISTRIBUTION OF AMENITIES
For clear segregation of vehicular and pedestrian traffic:(Surjyatapa, 2016)
Vehicular access in the form rectilinear and formal roads in the hierarchy of 4.5m wide to 15m wide road draws the vehicles
outwardly. Pedestrian access in the form of informal interlinked open spaces draws people inwardly.