TITAN TOWNSHIP

BANGALORE

Ar. RAINA GARG

 Specifics

 Located in Hosur, near Bangalore.

 Designed by Charles Correa.
 The client, one of the most successful and enlightened
industrial units in India, wished to set up housing for their
workers
 Not in the form of an isolated company town, but as an
integral part of the new urbanisation taking place
outside the small town of Hosur.
 Green areas created by Titan are accessible to the
public at large.
 Many of the sites and houses are being sold to outsiders.
 There is a natural mix of population, right from the start.

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Site

 It is located in the outskirts of the city of Hosur and is just off the
Mathigiri road and is about 3 kms from the railway station.
 The city experiences a pleasantly moderate climate.
 The site is mostly flat.
 It surrounded by privately owned residential plots.

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MASTER PLAN TITAN TOWNSHIP

  The basic square modules are 48 metres
by 48 metres and these are combined to
form clusters of 2,4,8 or 16 modules.
 The roads servicing these modules are
kept to very short cul-de-sacs, so they can
carry an unusually high level of service
infrastructure (underground electric lines,
cable television, etc) and yet make it such
infrastructure affordable in the Indian
economic context.

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TYPICAL MODULE

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 12m wide road

Common
SECTOR VIEW OF GUEST
activities
ENTRANCE HOUSE

VIEW OF
CLUSTER

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VIEW OF ENTRANCE TO SECTOR V
 VIEW OF GUEST HOUSE FROM CENTRAL
GREEN AREA

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 Classification of Houses
 All houses are 3 bedroom duplexes.
 The types are classified on basis of location and size of the
garden provided.
 They are in ascending order of size of green area as given:
 A1, A2, A3
 B (corner blocks)
 C (corner blocks)
 D1, D2, D3
 E
 F1, F2
 In a standard cluster of 16, the ratio is:
 A1A2:A3:B:C:D1:D2:D3 = 2:3:1:3:3:2:2
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Typical Cluster
Ground Floor

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TYPICAL CLUSTER
FIRST FLOOR
  Each house is directly connected to
the public roads at one end and to the
community back-garden at the other.
 Entrance to these back-gardens is
possible only at certain gate-way
entrances - at which are located
public amenities (kindergartens,
community centres, etc) to provide
easy and informal control.

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VIEW OF CLUSTER
 Features

 Grid iron pattern road development.

 Area divided into sectors.
 School, club, community centre located at Sector V
the largest sector.
 Buildings are strictly G+1 structures.
 Green areas on the inside, roads on the outside.
 Walking distances vary from 20-200m.
 Population density : 0.8 person /m2

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 AREA in m.sq. Percentage

SITE AREA 360000

Total road area 22000 6.11%

Single cluster area 1936m2 .53%

Court area single cluster 400m2 .11%

Built up area single cluster 1536m2 .42%

No. of Clusters 63

Common activities 1000 .27%

Total cluster area 121968 33%(green area included)

Residential use area in all 96768 26%(excluding green area)

clusters
Green area in clusters 25200 7%

Central Green area 4000 1.11%

Total green area 57200 15.8%

Total built up area 97746 27%

 RECOMMENDED ACTUAL

Residential use 50-55% 26%

Commercial use 2-5% .3%

Industrial use 10-12% nil

Public and Semi-public 8-10% 15%

Open spaces 10-15% 16%

Communication 15-18% 7%
Others 5% approx. nil
CLUSTER HOUSING
TOWNSHIP FOR GUJARAT FERTILIZERS CORPORATION,
BARODA
 BUILDING TYPE- Housing /
residential
 ARCHITECT- B.V. Doshi (Vastu
shilpa)
 LOCATION- Baroda, Gujarat
CLIMATE

 Baroda experiences three main seasons:

summer, monsoon and winter. Aside from the monsoon
season, the climate is dry. The weather is hot through the
months of March to July — the average summer
maximum is 36 °C (97 °F), and the average minimum is
23 °C (73 °F).
 From November to February, the average maximum
temperature is 30 °C (85 °F), the average minimum is
15 °C (59 °F), and the climate is extremely dry. Cold
northerly winds are responsible for a mild chill in
January.
 The southwest monsoon brings a humid climate from
mid-June to mid-September.
BACKGROUND AND SITE SURROUNDINGS
•The GSFC was established in 1962 at the
outskirts of Baroda metropolitan region at
a distance of 6 km.

•The site of the industry was decided on

the basis of the transportation linkage and
the accessibility to the IPCL refinery
complexes, which supply bio- product to
the GSFC as input.

•The construction of the GSFC township

began in 1963. It is placed adjacent to the
factory.

•It has three adjoining villages namely-

Chhani, Dashrath and Bajwa.
•The company township provides all the facilities of an urban environment. It is a
self contained settlement which also provides a common set of activities such as
school, health, centres, club, shopping arcade, bank and water tank.
YEAR- 1964-69
SITE AREA- 56.6 Ha.
NO. OF DWELLING
UNITS- 617
LAND USE-
Roads- 8.82 Ha. (15.50%)
Openspaces-28.92 Ha.
(51.04%)
Residential- 18.415
Ha.(32.50%)
Public and Semi public-
0.506 Ha.(0.89%)

PER CAPITA LAND

ALLOTMENT
Roads- 28.59sqm.
Openspaces-93.74sqm.
Residential- 59.70sqm.
Public and Semi public-
1.64sqm.
WIND DIRECTION AND SUNPATH
Linear pathways and greens
oriented to breeze

Diagonal pathways become

conduits of breeze for wind
flushing and micro climate

Thick tree plantation for

shade
 Combination of linear and cul-de-sac
BUILTFORM clusters

Overhead water tank as visually

reinforces the central focus
•House types
clustered
around feeder
branches and
segregated
from each
other with the
help of linear
open spaces in
between

•Each group
of houses to
have equal
accessibility
and land
potentials.
Dwelling units have compact
designed central courtyard for
informal activities.
CLIMATE AND BUILTFORM

Side wall sharing and

vertical stacking to
reduce solar exposure

Storage alcoves on
exterior walls as natural
insulation buffer
Low sill and
cross alignment
of windows or
breeze
 Attached and
semi detached
house types

Interlocking
arrangements of units
AMENITY DISTRIBUTION

Community facilities in the

geometric centre as visual
focus and hub of activity

Amenities combined with

community open spaces for
overlapping uses of land at
different times
OPEN SPACES •Community space as central focus. The
large community space is placed in the
middle with collective facilities.

•Open spaces are inter

linked and structured in a
hierarchy.
•Linear/ green pathway as pedestrian
link joining centre and periphery
•Group open spaces are dispersed amidst
smaller clusters of houses

•Group spaces as
enlarged node over
pedestrian linkages

•Series of interconnected squares to form

open space network
The large community space is placed in the middle with collective
facilities.
Street widening at their turns provide nooks for spontaneous activities
along streets.
Streets, squares and open spaces are shaded by thickly planted trees.
ACCESS AND CIRCULATION

Segregation
of vehicular
External loop and and
feeder branches pedestrian
movement

Branching
Pedestrian network
structure
diagonally
staggered
superimposed over
alignment T- Y
vehicular network
intersections
HIERARCHY OF ROADS
CONCLUSION

 Proper access system should ensure segregation of vehicular from

pedestrian movement.
 Open spaces should be structured and linked in hierarchy with community
spaces as centre, group spaces as nodes and pathways/ greens as links.
 Community facilities at the centre can be created as a activity hub and
visual focus in the settlement.
 T and Y intersections are preferred.
 Pathways should be oriented to wind direction and sun path.
 House types should form neighbourly clusters. Each group of house types
should have easy accessibility to amenities.
 Different house types can be segregated from each other by providing linear
open spaces.
BIBLIOGRAPHY

 Living environments housing design