ONLINE CASE STUDY.

KANCHANJUN
GA
APARTMENT
Charles Correa

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

4
45
50
0
M
M

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

47
M

Height: 83.32 M

56M

Floors: 27

107 M

83
M

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.

ORIENTATIO
N.

Orientation: EASTWEST.
Climate: HOT
TEMPERATURE.
Street address: 72peddar road.
Lot size: 5260sqmt.
Tower footprint:
436sqmt.
Approx 62% get
view of harbour

ORIENTATI
ON
Kanchanjunga apartments are located
south-west.

VENTILATION &
DAYLIGHT
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

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
CRITICIS
M
Structural inapt
on ground.
Water seepage
from verandah.
Noise from
peddar road.

INTERIORS & VIEWS