URBAN HABITAT|URBAN DESIGN PORTFOLIO by DHARAN KORUDUVAR

URBAN HABITAT PORTFOLIO

Dharan Koruduvar

dharankumar.korduvar.bud16@cept.ac.in

Studio Brief

The studio involve idea level exploration, program formulation and design development of different scales of spaces used for individual and collective living in the city. Evolving appropriate design response to a particular context is imagined to be a block in planned sector of the city, a defunct railway line, surrounded by housing of various user mix and typologies is central to the design process.

1 Unit Design This exercise was about designing the unit of 65 sq.m and 100 sq.m for the user group and conditions are given with some basic requirements about the user group

2 Case study This exercise was about understanding the projects of different scale with a different perspective and critically analysing it through the inference and take it forward to the design

3 Site analysis This exercise was about analyzing the site and understanding the site context with the help of movement mapping ,land-use , interviews and data collection etc

4 Scale comparison This exercise was about understanding the scale of the site by placing the 4 different scale case study in the site and understanding its scale in terms of nits and site coverage and open space

5 International Case study The international case study was about knowing the best project in the world with different laws and the ways spaces can be formed with different context

Content

6 Design concept This exercise was about building the design concept from the concerns and the site analysis.

7 Design Proposal This exercise was to design and detail-out our concept by putting it in the site and contextualizing it

UNIT DESIGN

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

100 sq.m UNIT DESIGN 0

SECOND FLOOR PLAN

100 msq

URBAN HABITAT

A young, carrier driven couple recently married moved one year DHARAN KORUDUVAR-UD0916 BUD-2to Ahmedabad 30 in JULY, 2018 serback.. Both are working. The boy is 28 years left job with MNC financial vices business4.5based out of Mumbai.He aspired to do something by his own. He 9 1.5 did Masters in Business management from London andreturn to India with an intension to establish his own enterprising company. But essentially tostart with, he may operate from home, build his portfolio and expand social network. The girl is also 28 years age, a creative person and health conscious personality. She is a freelancer, does vexhibition of her works may be twice a year and does part time job with a textile house. To build this house, they have taken a home loan.

DHARAN KORUDUVA URBAN 30 JULY, 2018 HABIT 0

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DHARAN KOR 30 JULY, 2018

DHARAN KORUDUVAR-UD0916 30 JULY, 2018

The office space is provided in the basement and a sunken buffer has been made for the green view and sound buffer from the road they are also from a creative background so the silent and atmosphere is been created with the green buffer 2

FIRST FLOOR PLAN

65 sq.m UNIT DESIGN

65 msq

DHARAN KORUDUVAR-UD0916

Man, 60 years, a retired govt.officer, has a regular morning regime to2018 near by 30 JULY, municipal garden and also has a big social circle of family and friends. Wife, 58 9 1.5 4.5 years, essentially a house wife all thought out her life a fantastic cook and love to treat guests and neighbours now and then. They have 2 sons. The elder one married and has a daughter and settled in America. The younger one also studying there and willsettle soon in next couple of years. The sons with their families visit their parents may be once a year or so. The family earlier used to stay as a joint family in a govt. housing in a low rise apartment in a 2 BHK unit. Now, the parents afford and aspire to build this house for themselves.

SECTION BB’

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SECTION AA’

Taking in mind the age and the fitness of the retired couple, the height of the housing unit was restricted only to the ground floor. A large drawing room is provided for the senior citizens keeping in mind the socializing aspect of the couple as mentioned in the brief. Also a space in front of the main door has been proDHARAN KORUDUVAR-UD0916 vided4.5which can serve the purpose of for30aJULY, group of 4-5 people. 9 gathering space URBAN 2018 HABITAT BUD-2

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CASE STUDY

Godrej Garden City

The Godrej garden city new Gota is completely based on Radman theory, which has features like a public square, park, high rise apartments, etc. Each society has its own private small garden and a playground(open spaces) and has bigger garden between 2-3 societies and then a common garden which is the biggest one shared by all. There is a clear distinction between the ownership of open spaces and its usage depends upon the users

Savvy Sanskar

There are four flats on each floor and the last 3 floors are penthouses. The room sizes for the 3BHK houses are as above having 4 standard sized bathrooms and a balcony attached to the living room. Moreover, the bedroom 3 room acts as a multipurpose room and the flat also has a guest room. Looking at the positions of the rooms the bedroom 3 can also be used as the guest room is placed the closet to the main do members of the house so the guests donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t have to walk the whole house to reach their room.

Rohan Milthila

Rohan Mithila is built with the concept of having a common open space in between with houses facing towards it . its opening is an atrium.it follows the concept of visible accessibility , connectivity and integration of spaces. it has many access points with gated security for its residents . Utmost security is maintained by ensuring the distance between two row of the multi-story building is in the range of 160-200 feet. Its design ensures that its window does not open directly into neighbouring windows. Its walkways around the residence have been created at a lower level to ensure maximum privacy for all homes

Shaligram

The architect achieved structural efficiency and economic visibility by following a structural grid. the architect wanted to give a grand look, so he decided to make an atrium upto 9 meters at the entrance. The main concern of the building was to provide a variety of choices to the end users in terms of spaces. therefore , the apartments have 2bhk,3bhk and 4bhk, which are the penthouse . The apartments consist of two core. First and second floor have 3bhk and third floor has 2 and 3 bhks.4th to 10th floor have duplex flats in the front part and 11th and 12th floor have penthouses with 4 bhks

SITE ANALYSIS

Movement Mapping

This site has few of the animals which come from the Makarba Gam so to see the neighborhood porosity of our site and to study the informal excess points in the plot we mapped the animals and pedestrians Pedestrian movement Animal movement

Landuse

The site is majorly utilised for residential purpose as there are multiple housing apartment schemes on either side of the assigned plot and apart from that there are low cost Government housing schemes which is completely occupied. The settlements too cover a major part of the site, though they are in the interiors away from the major commercial streets. The majority of commercial buildings are along the frequented roads such as Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway. The minor commercials and mixed use buildings are in the interiors which are providers of basic necessity to the nearby residents.

Residential Commercial Mixed

Vegetation

The site has abundance of natural vegetation spread across in different densities. The open spaces which does not have any kind of construction activity going on have native plantations which have grown naturally. There are two parks on the assigned plot and one of thse have abundance of trees which provide natural shade during the day time. The trees at the junctions or near empty plots act as pause points for pedestrians as well as other users of the streets. The trees help in balancing the micro-climate and lowering of the temperature.

Build mass Trees Major trees

Building Height

The low rise buildings or structures which are there at the site are mostly from the housing settlements. There are temporary commercial establishments along the Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway which have comparatively lower height than residential buildings. The mid rise buildings are the ones which are either commercial blocks or belong to Government low cost housing schemes. The high rise buildings Major comprise of the residential apartment schemes which have multiple units stacked together, utilizing the available FSI of that zone.

G+14

Connectivity

The walking radii is taken to be of 200m from the major nodes which connect to the minor nodes as well as Primary roads. The roads are classified in terms of its use and there are multiple parkings throughout the site. The greater Ahmedabad area roadway system is approximately 3487 kms. The city transportation system is predominantly dependent on roadway systems. Two wheelers have been an increasingly opted for choice for the residents due to the small perimeter of the city where distances can be covered in a short time.

AMTS Stops

Parking

Auto-rickshaw

Primary street

Major Nodes

Secondary street

Minor Nodes

Tertiary street

Walkablity Radius

Distance between nodes

Road Network

The site is in close proximity to the Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway, which is connected to it through a network of sub-arterial and local roads. The interiors of the site which have a majority of settlements have collector roads which feed the adjacent roads of higher hierarchy. The arterial roads are frequented by heavy goods vehicle on the hig way since it connects to major nodes of the city. The major public transport nodes stops such as AMTS are present on this road. The sub-arterial roads are frequented by auto-rickshaws which cover short distances and help the residents as well as office goers to commute short distances.

Local street Sub-arterial Arterial

SCALE COMPARISON & CASE STUDY

Proposed site 45,500 sq.mtrs

500+ Units - Rohan Mithila Site Coverage - 62%

Stand-alone Building - Shaligram Site Coverage - 100%

Township - Godrej Garden city Site Coverage - 12%

200+ Units - Savvy Sanskar Site Coverage - 100%

Site - CEPT University Site Coverage - 53%

Scale comparison

This exercise was about understanding the scale of the site by studying the surrounding and the given case study of different scales from the standalone building to the township and also putting the CEPT university so realize the spaces and the actual scale where we live and putting it in the site and understanding the site coverage and proportion

Sky Habitat

“Nature climbs up in the Building and creates its own place with in the structure”

-MOSHE SAFDIE

The formation of form the only option was to extrusion of two or three different tower,seperate extrusion of independent building.one continous structure it is perforated and permeated by larde opening and then bridge that connect structure at three level sunshade on every individual windows which cuts the sunlight from penetrating and heating the units. public spaces within the structure should be enjoying cross ventilation and maximize breeze

DESIGN CONCEPT

Form Evolution

There is an evolution of the basic concept in this process. The given built-up area was 1,50,000 sq.m, where I started by placing the built-up area equally for my understanding. The second step was to carve out pockets of community spaces for the residents, by stacking up the built form on the edges. The site being 617 m long, faced issues like pedestrian walkability issues due to insufficient access points. Through this, I divided my built form in a way, opening two access points through the plot. In the next step, I carved out an internal walkway for the residents. Later, by extending parts of the built form, I created pocket spaces for the community. The access for natural elements like sunlight and wind is the most beautiful access of every public space, for that, I played with the heights of the buildings and chunks of the built form. Keeping in mind the hierarchy of spaces, I designed the entrances in a way that they do not directly open to the large community space, instead they evolute to be a community space.

Entries & Exits

I have 8 entries to my site from which 2 of them are in two corners majorly for the outsiders coming for the sunken ground so that the outside vehicular flow stays a bit secluded from the residential part and 4 of them are in the middle of the site only for the vehicles of residents and pedestrians cross through and the other 2 are the cafe entries for the people coming to the ground and the neighbourhood people

Only residents vehicular entry Outsiders vehicular entry Restricted entry for pedestrian Access for all pedestrian

DESIGN PROPOSAL

Grade Level Plan

My project is sports oriented where I am trying to give neighborhood the grounds for sports like volleyball, basketball,mini-football and lawn tennis with the professional dimensions where I am also designing in a way that the site should have the well distinguish public and private use for residents. For differentiating the public and private I have played with the level difference of the ground .i have designed a ground at -3 meters where the topography will act as setting spaces and the level difference will demarket the private and public spaces for the residents

Commercial Amenities

While designing the grade level I have also tried to focus on the hierarchy of spaces which I think is one of the most important thing in the housing project. I think the hierarchical jump in the spaces makes space dull so to insert concept in my design I tried to remove some mass from the block and make spaces in the circulation in between the larger public spaces and the foyer so that that space becomes one of the pose point and the interaction point for the residents

Hierarchy of spaces

Pedestrian path 1. In this plan, the spaces marked in the gradient of red are the hierarchy of the spaces where the darker the colours the degree of privacy is higher where we can see the gradient is going gradually from the foyer to the larger space 2. In the second plan, I have traced the pedestrian path across the site which crosses through the variety of spaces like cafe and entrances 3. In the third plan, I have marked the cores from the basement to the Ground floor where the red core is the public core for the outsiders which goes only till ground floor and opens in the open spaces and the blue cores are the private core of the building which opens inside the building

Core for residents Core for outsiders Hierarchy of Public spaces Private spaces Semi-private spaces Public spaces

This image is the view from the entrance descending to the mini football ground. The levels created are used as seating spaces for the visitors and players to have a greater view to play area. This also differentiates the area by visually demarcating two different kinds of spaces

Sections

This section shows the relation between the height vs the breath were in the middle part of the mass I have played with the height to let light get in the narrow lawn and the terrace lawns which is on the short building in the middle of the two long building. whereas, short section shows the inner open spaces and the proportion of that space to its height and the inner core of the building to its circulation space

Typical Floor Plan

staircases are placed in a way that they stay at the outer side of the building for the emergency exit.Units are set in a way that they get at least 2 side open

120sq.m Unit 80sq.m Unit

25 sq.m circulation at 2 unit to a core

75 sq.m circulation at 4 unit to a core

All Staircase facing outside for fire safety

40sq.m circulation at 3 units to a core

Staircase facing outside for fire safety

45sq.m circulation at 4 units to a core

Amenities Floor Plan

amenities and also the terrace garden facing the ground .there would be the bridge connecting all the blocks and bridge would act as the circulation path for 120sq.m Unit 80sq.m Unit Amenities

semi-open green space facing the ground

Terrace garden facing inner lawn

Bridge semi-open space Indoor Amenities

Indoor Aminities

Indoor Amenities Terrace garden facing road side

Context Model

To understand the third dimension of the site we made a physical model at 1:1000 scale and also made the individual model to place on the site to contextualize it and study the form of the neighborhood and design accordingly