Tara Housing

from Re-thinking Affordable Government Housing Thesis

Limitations

Four Variant Designs

1. 1 RK 2. 1 BHK 3. Mezzanine Unit 4. Live/Work Unit

• With a minimum area of 300sq. ft. permutations suiting the fluid requirements of users combined to form variations in unit/ module. • To foster a sense of community spaces like a ration shop, a gym, a gathering space that have been built into the design. • When the family scales up in size and economics the individual unit are scalable by

joining to the adjacent units. Fig.32. Udan Housing - Standard Devloper’s Practice and Proposed Concept. (Source - https://architecturelive.in/low-cost-housing-sameep-padora-and-associates/)

Fig.34. Udan Housing - Section indicating Day-light Penetration, Visual-connectivity and Air Circulation. (Source - https://architecturelive.in/low-cost-housing-sameep-padora-and-associates/)

Location – Banglore, Karnataka Area –8,793.47 sq.m. Year – 2018 Total Units - 156 Architect – MindSpace Architects

Podium level houses common activities like common dining and kitchen along with landscaped areas and water bodies.

Atrium skylight is specifi cally designed keeping in mind to bring in the eastern light and to avoid glare. Animated shadows on wall surfaces further brightens the space.

To visually scale down the ten-fl oor façade, overlapping double height volumes are emphasized in the facade is with colors

Each of the fl oors has one activity center which is visually connected across diff erent levels through a central atrium with a skylight.

Fig.38. Park-side Retirement Housing - Section showing distribution of activities. (Source - https://www.archdaily.com/901829/ parkside-retirement-homes-mindspace)