COST EFFECTIVE ARCHITECTURE

ASSIGNMENT 1
RAJ REWAL

MRIGYA GUPTA
Semester-7
CUN130301066
 Raj Rewal lived in Delhi and Shimla from 1934–1951. He
attended Harcourt Butler higher secondary school. Between
1951-1954 he attended the Delhi School of Architecture in
New Delhi.

After completing a degree in architecture in New Delhi, he

moved to London in 1955 where he lived until 1961. He
attended the architectural association school of architecture
for one year and the Brixton school of building, London from
1956-60.

Raj Rewal worked at Michel Ecochards's office in Paris before

starting his practice in New Delhi in 1962. Between 196372, he taught at the School of
Planning and Architecture, Delhi.

He opened a second office at Tehran, Iran in 1974. Among his better known projects are
the Hall of Nations at the Pragati Maidan Exhibition Centre,[2] Asiad Village, the Parliament
Library in New Delhi and NCBS (National Centre for Biological Sciences) campus at
Bangalore.[3][4] In 1986, he became the curator of the exhibition “Traditional Architecture in
India” for the Government of India organised festival of India in Paris.
He also designed an architectural college (SIUPA) in Rohtak and is head of members in
academic council.
S Asian Games Village
Architect Raj Rewal

Location New Delhi, India

Date 1980 to 1982

Building Type multifamily housing

Construction System concrete

Climate hot

Context urban

Style Modern

 Asian Games Village was built in 1982 to house athletes for the games.

 500 housing units were designed as a group housing in 35 acres. The aim was to create
an urban pattern of low rise high density based on a sequence of open spaces linked by
shaded pedestrian pathways.
 The peripheral roads are connected to the cul-de-sac parking squares which in turn give
way to individual garages or car porches attached to the houses or apartment blocks.
 The concept is based on a sequence of open spaces, interlinked with narrow pedestrian
streets shaded and kept alive through a careful mix with recreational and communal
area.
 The streets are consciously broken up into visually comprehensible units, often with
gateways, so there are pauses, point of rest and changing vistas.
 The central spline of the layout is reserved for pedestrian courts and streets of various
clusters.
 About eight percent of the houses and apartments have access from pedestrian
enclosures as well as parking squares.
o There is a sequence of open spaces, interlinked with
narrow pedestrian streets.
o The streets become spaces for encounter between
people and the squares offer a sense of neighbourhood.
o The cubic solids and voids are characteristic of the
Indian urban fabric. Dining complex which is now used
as a recreational and community centre.
o The streets are consciously broken up into visually
comprehensible units, often with gateways, so there are
pauses, point of rest and changing vistas.
o The central spine of the layout is reserved for pedestrian
courts and streets of various clusters.
o Entrance gateways with linked upper terraces punctuate
the sequence of
courtyard and garden
spaces