STAGGERED HOUSING Studio

Architectural Design Semester 4

Faculty

Vision Statement

Housing is All about the house, one’s house is the most important place in one’s life, then Why should a strict hierarchy allude that one unit is more important than the others. hence the project uses split levels, staggered profiles to break the notion of hierarchy and to provide ample spaces for interactions between the residents. Another important factor is interaction,keeping in mind the important role the activities of Debate, Extempore, Discussion and Deliberation play in building a healthy student community and society in general. Hence the project also encompasses various levels of interactions, from small scale between units to the central discussion court around which all the public functions are distributed. But on the other hand of the spectrum of interaction is the idea of privacy, and hence the project tries to balance the idea of ensuring interaction and ensuring privacy.

Discussion court around preexisting tree and the idea of thoroughfare

Common Areas Around the court and cluster meandering around it, Clusters shaped to capture wind

Split levels forming terraces and spill outs

Service cores acting as fixed points around which the units are tied

In order to bring in visual harmony withing the varied composition of units, the fenestrations are used as a regular element taking inspiration from Moshe Safide’s Habitat 67. Because the walls were made of exposed laterite, the lintel and sill would be seen on the elevation and hence instead of a part lintel and cill which would look haphazard, the use of through lintels and cills form two bands on the elevation of each unit, in between these bands, the fenestrations of width 600 1200 or 1800 mm are placed. On the southern and western walls, Wooden battens are used to form shading devices while in the north and east slab overhangs are utilised for the same.

Studio Brief

‘We have to change our lifestyles’ seems to be the reverberating mantra across the globe in the recent past, with most of us trying to implement it, being confined to our dwelling in the middle of the pandemic. But, now that most of us are out in the open, we often try and look at the idea of public space around us through the speculative lens of ‘what if’. Here lies the agenda of negotiating the idea of work-play. What are the spatial notions of work and play, and how do we position the idea of blurring their boundaries and look at the two typologies with a renewed interest?

This studio will seek to explore more of such questions that could be potentially be answered through the language of space-making. We sure hope that you will find this attempt exciting too!

Site: Basava Samiti, Bangalore

Site Area: 4698.00 sq m Built Up area: 4380.00 sq m