CONCEPT

The Project adopts the “City Within a City” concept as the main design Strategy in order to create an active social scenery that reproduces the city scale in a single building.

The design adopts the enclosure of the urbanism scheme and the complexity of the internal organization in order to form a miniature version of many activities through the pathway.

In this scenario, we tried to create a hierarchy of spaces with green buildings and lees energy consumption.

( DESIGN STATEMENT 4.0,7.0)

Design Considerations:

1.0 A hierarchy of social interaction has been maintained by certain stages: starting from interaction between families to neighbor leading to the neighborhood.

A. First stage of interaction has been made in the common lobby spaces of the apartments.

B. Second stage of social interaction has been made by designing green spaces and interactive pathways in the ground level, in between apartments, which is surrounded by facilities like, cafe, gym, indoor game areas.

C. The Third stage and the wider scale of social interaction is created by vehicle obstruction free pathways between open green spaces and apartment buildings from one end of the complex to another.

2.0 Generally a person living in the ground level feels the deprivation of privacy. So in the design an attempt is made to create a scenario where living in ground floor will feel like living in first floor by sunken the immediate space of the flat. This process will also provide light to the underground vehicular roads.

3.0 To bring residents close to nature, open spaces are filled with green plants and grasses. Even the concrete portions right above the basement are also filled with soil and planted smaller plants and trees in the green space which are directly connected to ground. Overall the full site is used as a green space.

4.0 Another consideration is providing vehicle free pedestrian routes so the children and elderly people can walk easily throughout the housing area. For this particular consideration we took our vehicular road under the pedestrian road which is - 6 feet below the ground level. To solve the darkness, clumsiness and insecure situation under the underground passage, some portion of the pathway is punched to bring light inside the road.

5.0 A hierarchy of building heights is maintained towards the site force so that maximum number of apartments can enjoy the site view.

6.0 The multi-purpose hall is designed at -6 feet level which is the road level so that anyone can easily come to the place by car and drop off right in front of their apartments. Also we made the roof of the multi-purpose hall green to maintain the harmony of green in different levels.

7.0 The pedestrian level is designed +2.5 feet higher than the ground level so ambulance or fire brigade can easily access through the pedestrian level by ramp.