CO-INTERACTIVE HOUSING 04

Overlapping of ideas and activities are true catalysers towards social housing, And thus interaction is a major aspect of healthy living.

Exploring the idea of overlapping planes, and social heirarchy, the project focused on prioritizing the open spaces even while going vertical because of land constraints.

Project : Housing Studio | Sem IV

Location : Afzal Khan No Tekro, Khadia, Ahmedabad

Area : 7000 sqm

Conceptual exploration of the idea of overlapping multi-purpose spaces and cluster formation through the conceptual idea. Creation of interactive nodes, and movement, pedestrain and vehicular were the major goals.

Section also explored the sense of balance between going vertical and maintaining open spaces. Natural terrace formation was achieved through sensible stacking of largest area units at the lowest level, medium in the middle and smallest at the topmost level.

30 sqm units, with overlooking balconies

45 sqm units, with a common open to sky balcony.

60 sqm units, at the ground level, favoring the larger families.

Staggering the grid with open spaces at different levels, lead to creation of a pedestrian street, and ceremonial spaces tangential to the street, thus giving pockets of open spaces to all the blocks.

Unit plans focused on providing semi-open overlooking, common and overlapping spaces. Following the same structural grid, but creating more voids as you move up, following the social heirarchy but in a different way.

DOCUMENTATION - POL HOUSE, AHMEDABAD

Measure draw case study of the heritage city of Ahmedabad, traditional pol house architecture. Documentation of Plans, electrical plans, reflected ceiling plans, sections, elevations as well as the details was carried out.