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HOUSING LITERATURE CASE STUDY KANCHANJAUNGA APPARTEMENTS  CLIMATE Warm and humid Since Mumbai is a coastal city, the weather is mostly humid year round. Also as it is in The Kanchenjunga tropics, it never gets very cold and the yearly extremes lie within a 30 degree Celsius apartments is a direct r...

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HOUSING KANCHANJAUNGA APPARTEMENTS

LITERATURE CASE STUDY  CLIMATE Warm and humid Since Mumbai is a coastal city, the weather is mostly humid year round. Also as it is in tropics, it never gets very cold and the yearly extremes lie within a 30 degree Celsius range.

The Kanchenjunga apartments is a direct response to the present society, the escalating urbanization, and the climatic conditions for the region .

 ORIENTATION • In Mumbai, a building has to be oriented east‐west to catch prevailing sea breezes and to open up the best views of the city. Unfortunately, these are also the directions of the hot sun and the heavy monsoon rains

• AREA : 441 sq. Mt • SITE AND SITUATION : City landscape surrounded by mid rise and high -rise structures .

TYPE A LAYOUT

THE KANCHENJUNGA APARTMENTS is a 28 storey building containing 32 luxury apartments ranging in size from 3 to 6 bedrooms . • • • • ENTRANCE ARABIAN SEA

84 Mt CONCRETE SKYSCRAPER MORDERN BRUTILISM

HEIGHT OF THE BUILDINGCONSTRUCTION MATERIALBUILDING TYPEARCHITECTURAL STYLE-

• This was mediated through the unit design in the traditional bungalow style. The bungalow wrapped A

HARBOUR

PROTECTIVE LAYER OF VERANDAH AROUND THE MAIN LIVING SPACE PROVIDING TWO LINES OF DEFENSE AGAINST THE CLIMATE OF THE AREA.

62.5% get view of harbor and remaining of Arabian sea

 STRUCTURE • RCC structure completely. • 6.3 m Cantilever • Slip form first time used in India • Tube system with shear wall

 THE BIG LOGGIAS PROVIDED HELPS IN TWO WAYS: • •

IT CREATS AN VISTAS AND INTEGRATES THE INSIDE WITH THE OUTSIDE. IT ALSO PROVIDE A SHADE FROM THE SUN AND HUMIDITY.

• The CENTRAL CORE of the building houses lifts and other services also provides the main structural element for resisting lateral loads.

• The tower has a proportion of 1 : 4 ( being 21 meters square and 84 meters high ) .

• Its minimalist unbroken surfaces are cut away to open up the double height terrace gardens at the corners, thus revealing some hint of complex spatial organization of living spaces that lie within the tower.

• The SEVICES of the building aligned to the EAST AND THE WEST CORNERS OF APPARTMENT

 MODULARITY

• Lot size approx. : 5260 sq. m • Footprint of the tower : 441 sq. m • Number of residences : 32 • Number of floors: 28 - A unit 3 bedrooms x 10 : 294 sq. - B unit 3 bedrooms x 12 : 242 sq. - C unit 5 bedrooms x 8 : 373 sq. m - D unit 4 bedrooms x 4 : 361 sq.

Window to Wall ratio: The living and dining space – 48%, NW bed rm - 34% SE Master bed rm - 45%.

32 FLATS – 200 PEOPLE

34%

TYPE C

TYPE A

 LIGHT AND VENTILATION

45%

48%

The highest solar gain receiving rooms are selected. The rooms, which are used most of the time by the occupants.

Amount-8 Bedroom-4 2 big loggia SW facade

• MAX WINDOWS ARE AT THE WEST AND THE EAST SIDE

Amount-6 Bedroom-5 1 big loggia SE facade

TYPE C SPECIAL

TYPE A SPECIAL

Amount-1 Bedroom-4 1 big loggia SE facade

Amount-2 Bedroom-5 1 big loggia SW OR NE facade

TYPE D

TYPE B

BEDROOM

Amount-8 Bedroom-3 1 big loggia SW facade

TYPE E

Amount-2 Bedroom-4 2 big loggia SW OR NE facade

LIVING

TYPE A

TYPE B

• SMALLER DISPLACEMENT OF LEVELS WERE CRITICAL IN THIS WORK IT DIFFRENTIATE BETWEEN THE EXTERNAL EARTH FILLED TERRACES AND THE INTERNAL ELEVATED LIVING VOLUMES

TYPE C

TYPE D

• THIS STUBLE SHIFT ENABLED CORREA TO EFFECTIVELY SHIELD HIS BUILDING. • THIS WAS ACHIEVED BY PROVIDING THE TOWER WITH RELATIVELY DEEP GARDENS , VERANDAHS SUSPENDED IN AIR

IKG PTU CAMPUS MOHALI-II

Amount-2 Bedroom-6 3 big loggia SW OR NE facade

SUBMITTED TO:-

DR. GURUKRIPAL SINGH AR. KOMAL THAKUR

 PROBLEMS FACED IN THE BUILDING •Structural inapt for the ground. •Water seepage from verandah •Noise from Peddar Road

SUBMITTED BY:- KANUPRIYA THAKUR 1736252...