tara housing by Charles Correa

TA R A H O U S I N G G R O U P CHARRLES CHOREA

Tara apartments is one kind of social projects that is indented for the middleclass of Nehru centre. This building is designed by Charles chorrea and completed in 1978.

Tara housing group has 160 units and 375 persons per hectare. The Tara pays deeply attention to the inner activated such as central garden and leave the interaction of traffic behind a wall which is parallel to guru ravidas Marg street(the south-east.

Location :New Delhi, India Constructed in : 1975-1978 Site:1.48 Ha Program: Social housing with 160 units of two and three bedrooms flats(MIG) Client: Tara House Society Architect: Charles Correa Structure: reinforced concrete Wall : brick

SITE

The main concept in Tara housing group project is a creative vernacular typology in term of arranging and piling the singular flat into united blocks.

By separating with the outside world and providing an interior garden, the building preserves well the private life of families within. More than that, just pedestrians are allowed go inside the housing group and the parking lot is in the back of the building.

In term of a social housing group, the project takes big advantages from natural resources like lighting and ventilation and all families are equally shared these features. Indian sense is illustrated in the use of concrete bands, panels of exposed bricks, portals, overhangs and shape edges.

The open spaces are derived from configuration of horizontal and vertical base planes and the characters is defined by sense of enclosure and texture.

There is hierarchy of open spaces due to the alteration in the planes n response to the climatic conditions and to achieve the desired visual character.

Private space The extension of living area into the green spaces in the ground floor and the partially shaded 10sqm terraces spaces open onto visual greens and are not connected to active greens, hence the privacy is retained.

Spatial Organisation

The project is located along guru ravidas Marg street which leads to two big residential areas in the north and the south.

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Open space system

The Concept

it is in the suburb of middle class.

Therefore it creates harmonious and balance volume with the existing fabric A due to limited height and form of building .project also pay an important part in linking these other building with the adjacent park.

The dwelling units are arranged similar to that of row houses, of which the central street is developed as multifunctional landscape spine serving as a major circulation area, community space, children's play area and visual green affecting the microclimate The two longitudinal parallel decks are surrounded by one space on one side and enclosed by visual green on the other side .the spaces are segregated with respect to various activities and organized in response to the built form.

Public space The open staircases and their landing are interactive zones. The central spine is an active enclosed space which turns semi open space with presence of large green trees houses an oat, children’s play area, green pocket. The soft cape on the south east is bounded and buffered by peripheral plantation

Orientation and Micro Climate

Overall Master Planning

EVALUATION: The building turns its back on the street to prevent noise, dust from the high flow vehicle, being staked as a row, central garden, big overhangs and sharp edges all give these building a sense of Indian characteristic under hot sun, full of light without suffering from high temperature.

The site has five major zones; the built dwelling units aligned north south, peripheral parking area along north-west and north boundary walls, enclosed community space, children's play area on south-east.

Legends 1. Entry 2. Guard room 3. Scooter parking 4. Housing blocks 5. Seats 6. Amphitheatre 7. Lawns 8. Planters 9. Children’s play area 10. Swimming pool 11. Changing room 12. Covered seating 13. Service entry 14. Structure on silts 15. Car parking 16. Pergola on parking area

The N-S orientation of the narrow built-up provides thermal comfort to the users in central community space and also provides winter sun to the the individual terraces and central spine.

Majority of the private open spaces on the SE get optimum sun in the morning and afternoon during winters.

The majority of the surface and hard surface which absorbs and reflects the solar radiation and radiates heat later.

This is neutralized by the wind funnel created by the comparatively smaller openings on NW and large double height multifunctional hall on SE and green pockets in the central spine The interlocking of the two longitudinal staggered decks provide mutual shading and provides thermal comfort to the users in the central spine.

3d-views The services, water tanks and power house are concealed in the 3m level difference of site contours and are visually enhanced as a feature by landscaping.

Legends 1. Connecting bridge 2. Scooter parking

3. Guard room 4.Road

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5.Lawn 6..Seats

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9.play area 7. Planters 8. Amphitheatre 10. Entrance

This organization is functional; due to lack of active usage along the south-east and south periphery the areas leave an impression of left out spaces. The central space overlooked by dwelling units make the space for usable. The deliberate isolation of the car parking reduces the luxury and supervision.

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HOUSING

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SITE EVALUATION

Inverse fig. ground

car circulation

gradient public(light) private(dark)

slow road network

BUILDING

porosity

main street entrance

Two-bedroom flat Three-bedroom flat

The duplex units are accessed either at ground floor or second floor levels by outdoor staircases.

There are two kinds of flats 1. two bedroom flats with 84sq.m (3m wide ,6 m high with two floors and 15m long) 2. three bedroom flats with 130 sq. and have the shape of L-they are only 16 unitsEach unit is provided an open terrace which is protected by a pergola and big overhangs.

Two sides of the projects are connected by staircase.

EVALUATION: The concept of building allows people to access directly to the interior garden, more than that ,everyone also has their own open-tosky terraces with filled shadow.

By taking advantages of sun, wind direction and open spaces, hence lighting access and ventilation to each dwelling are maximized.

DWELLING 3 Metre wide and 15 metre long

Description: The dwellings are grouped into some small and medium blocks. Some blocks are assembled only by two-bedroom flat, some are Ground Floor combined between two-bedroom type and threebedroom type. It creates the diversity of form but still maintains the logic of dwellings functions.

However, there are just 16 three-bedroom flats so Two-bedroom type that it is not sufficient for families which have more than 4 members.

Combination

Three bedroom type and combination

DWELLING TYPOLOGY

The complex is formed due to the combination between pairs of accommodation units.

The second floor which is larger than the ground one with a big overhang that rises further ap_x0002_proximately 6 metres gives the mixture between shadow and light. More than that, the duplex above is also push back hence front of the below one is pro_x0002_tected too. In that way, the whole central garden is full filled with shadow.

parking lot and lighting accessibility

Natural ventilation

Two bedroom type

CONCULSION BUILDING MATERIAL AND FINISHES The usually refined exposed brick and concrete construction reflects the architect’s prevailing commitment to the modernist idiom. The concrete pergola accentuates the jagged break down of the building surface rather than forming an effective continuous parasol.

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 The development is a schematic of traditional urban form. This part-I derives specifically from the climatologically rational of the narrow over hung streets.  An introvert street configuration is created. This was derived,ostensibly,to shelter a humid green zone with in the development. It is terraced to fit topographic profile.  The position and character of various spaces make them multi-functional and the juxtaposition of these open spaces give user the flexibility of using the spaces as a whole.

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three bedroom type

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