Income based housing community CHENNAI CITADEL

TYPE : College academic project | Individual project

YEAR : 2021 | 4th Yr of B.Arch

LOCATION : ECR road , Chennai , Tamil Nadu , India

“Chennai Citadel” is an architectural exploration for the given brief - income based housing community for different classes of people residing in the city of Chennai.It seeks to develop an unique setting of modular residential spaces that targets on potential user group of people, creating a ‘community that keeps the residents engage with all aspects of the society.The design mainly focuses on exploring LIG,MIG and HIG variations of housing.

SITE - ECR road, Chennai

The site is chosen in such a way that it has great access to site from OMR road, with proximity to major SEZ and insititutional buildings. Coastal area , hence prone to salt spray and slant rain. Presence of educational and IT parks. Proximity to coast and in mid rise development area hence sea breeze will be available and good views and vistas Buckingham canal there will provide the water access to the site. And its a flood prone area as it is less than 2km from the sea shore.

PROGRAM - Income based housing

Proximity map showing the nearby important proximity areas that would be probably play a role in the location context of the chosen site in ECR.

Here are four maps showing the climatic and connectivity aspects in the site. Local climatic conditions is tropical humid. Vantage points having maximum viewpoints to utilize the use of balconies. Road connectivity shows the centrality of the site and there are quite few noise map areas that are shown.

The proposed site located adjacent to ECR road makes it suitable for the frontage viewpoints in a way that the east side of the building faces the ocean shore and that way people can use maximum usage of the vantage points.The setback is about 7m from the site boundaries and there are separate entry points for the resident access and one for the service vehicle entry. There is common connecting bridge at the centre for the shared usage of all the HIG,MIG and LIG users, which serves as the physical and physocological connection between the 3 entities of blocks - where the users can each zone can reach the other zones and serves as a purpose of common utilization . There is a OAT stairs at the mid of the HIG and MID block where ancillary leisure spaces such as parks, seating spaces are seen. Especially for the usage of HIG residents, there is special features such as open cafeteria and pool area at the side of the building that could be used by the high income group people. At the ground floor under the HIG blocks, we could see the commercial part in the front of the retention tank which is used for the revenue purposes. The commercial block would seen from under the common bridge and its a long stretch of commercial frontage.

HIGH

MIDDLE

LOW INCOME GROUP HOUSING

HIGH INCOME GROUP (HIG)

LIG - 2 BHK

Total no. of units - 36 Area of each unit - 60 sq.m Accomodation - 4-5 people

MIDDLE INCOME GROUP (MIG)

EWS - 1 BHK

Total no. of units - 60 Area of each unit - 30 sq.m Accomodation - 2-3 people

LOW INCOME GROUP (LIG)