KANCHANJUNGA APARTMENT

Charles Correa

ONLINE CASE STUDY.

ABOUT CHARLES CORREA

▪ Indian architect, Urban planner and an activist.

▪ Born: September 1, 1930(Age 83)

▪ Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, University of Michigan

▪ Awards: Royal Gold Medal, 7th Aga Khan Award for Architecture, Gold Medal of UIA

SITE ANALYSIS

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450 M

47 M

107 M

83M

56M

Technical data:

•Apartments: luxury type /4types /(3-6 bedrooms)

•Height: 83.32 M

•Floors: 27

•Construction system: Concrete

•Architect: Charles Correa.

•Date: 1970 to 1983

•Building type: Skyscraper.(multifamily housing)

•Architectural style: Modern, Brutalism

ZONING

Vertical Zoning:Surface parking.

Basement parking.

Entrance.

A B C D typical type.

Elevators.

ORIENTATION.•Orientation: EAST-WEST.

•Climate: HOT TEMPERATURE.

•Street address: 72-peddar road.

•Lot size: 5260sqmt.

•Tower footprint: 436sqmt.

•Approx 62% get view of harbour& remaining of Arabian sea.

ORIENTATION

Kanchanjunga apartments are located south-west.

VENTILATION & DAYLIGHT E

In Mumbai, buildings are ideally orientated EAST-WEST to catch the prevailing sea-breezes, and views out to the Arabian Sea on one side and the harbour on the other: the same directions as the hot afternoon sun and heavy monsoon rains.

Old bungalows solved these problems by wrapping a protective layer of verandas around the main living areas, thus providing the occupants with two lines of defence against the element.

INNOVATION▪ Interlock of four different apartment typologies varying

from 3 to 6 bedrooms each.

▪ Smaller displacements of levels.

▪ Differentiated between the external earth filled terraces and the internal elevated living volumes.

▪ Effectively shield these high rise units from the effects of both the sun and monsoon rains.

▪ Achieved by providing the tower with relatively deep, garden verandas, suspended in the air.

MATERIALS & COLOURS▪ The garden terraces of Kanchanjunga

apartments are actually a modern interpretation of a feature of the traditional Indian bungalow; Veranda.

▪ In India and other Asian countries, one finds a predominance of reds and yellows.

TRANSPARENCY CRITICISM

•Structural inapt on ground.

•Water seepage from verandah.

•Noise from peddar road.

INTERIORS & VIEWS