NEIL DUSTAKAR_AR-18-010

DIVYANSHU JAISWAL_AR-18-020
VAIBHAV KUMAR_AR-18-030
KINJAL RATHI_AR-18-056
SIDDHARTH SIDHU_AR-18-067
KRIPA SONPAL_AR-18-070

Smart Karle Town Centre

Bangalore,India
PROJECT INFO:
Client: KARLE INFRA PVT LTD
Location: Bangalore, India
Building surface: 10 - 13 millions ft.= 930.000 - 1.200.000sqm
Building site: 62 acres
Typology: Mixed-use
Status: under construction
Landscape: BALJON Landscape Architects, Amsterdam
Infrastructure Master Planning: Aurecon, Melbourne
Masterplan consultant: Ross Bonthorne, Sydney

Location Plan

Master Plan
SENSITIVE APPROACH TOWARDS USERS IN DESIGN:
NATURE NURTURED
• The things that make cities livable and loved, are greatly
defined by their green density. At Karle Town Centre, a
carefully-planned green journey & a purposeful micro-
climate works in synergy with the weather.
• A holistic approach encourages healthy behavior.
• Sustainable measures add soft layers to complement the
hard parameters of development

Inspiration by design
• The influence of the environment on our mood is a key
parameter to progress.
• Rethinking offices, interactions between buildings &
people and the very way we work and live brings about
an inspiring change.
• Iconic architecture and a unique design language instils
pride, the most powerful emotion that binds citizens to
cities

Powering a sense of belonging

• The masterplan was designed not just for residents, office
goers and staff, but equally for visitors from all walks of
life.
• Thoughtful spatial mapping encourages and prolongs
social interactions. Communities based on activities,
health, art, culture and digital interests effortlessly mingle PEDESTRAIN MOVEMENT AND GATHERING
as each individual finds their space, while choosing larger
communities to contribute to, and be part of.
PLANNING STRATEGIES
Three pillars: Garden, Health, and Culture.
• A creative solution to urban stagnation
• Attracting talent, families
• Investment into the heart of the city.

• The masterplan has been designed to turn each building into

“its own thriving urban microcosm.”
• The scheme emerges from Bangalore’s dense green canopy as
a series of contemporary buildings defining the city’s skyline.
• The scheme also responds to the decline in green space
across the city, seeking to create Bangalore’s Garden City of
the 21st Century.
• The landscape and architectural languages complement each
other, their sensitive integration shaping the urban context at
all scales – green pockets, roofscapes and facades.
• Lakefront promenade, avenue vegetation, semi-public
vegetative sky gardens and urban elements.
• KTC’s blueprint overcomes the slow growth and development
phasing challenges of a traditional masterplan by introducing a
thriving microcosm into each plot.
• With a series of interwoven, dynamic volumes that rise against
Bengaluru’s skyline, lending contemporary identity to the KTC
Masterplan, and painted ‘Coolest White’ shade, the structures
propose to be a breath-taking sight.

VIEW OF THE WATERFRONT

 PROGAMATIC DIVERSITY

The masterplan also aims to combat urban heat island effect, freshwater shortages
and implement passive design techniques that capitalise on natural daylight and
prevailing wind direction.
 WIND

SAND HEAT

SOUND

WIND ANALYSIS AND

BUFFERING STRATEGY SEASONAL STREETSCAPES
 SHADOW ANALYSIS
RETAIL THEATRE

CROSS ROADS AND VIEW OF ICONIC TOWER

ICONIC TOWER BUILDING STRATEGY

IMPACT OF BUILT ON UNBUILT ENVIRONMENT:

• The architecture of the scheme emerges from Bangalore’s dense

green canopy as a series of contemporary buildings defining the
city’s skyline.
• The dynamic white volumes painted in UNStudio and Monopol
Color’s patented “Coolest White” paint defines the scheme’s
contemporary brand, while landscaping features will include
green pockets and roofscapes.
• The scheme also responds to the decline in green space across
the city, seeking to create Bangalore’s Garden City of the 21st
Century.
• Collaborating with BALJON Landscape Architects, UNStudio have
designed a sustainable, resilient landscape plan that is linked to
the idea of a garden as a place of leisure and relaxation.
• Special attention is given to the promotion of lakefront
promenades, providing avenue vegetation, and integrating
vegetative sky gardens.
• UNSense, the arch tech company founded by UNStudio, is
collaborating with Karle Infra to curate the use of sensorial
technologies throughout the masterplan in an effort to make the
built environment more responsive and healthy, tailoring the
environmental controls to the users physical, mental and social
wellbeing through user dataset collection.
 GARDENS
ANALYSIS

• The Karle Town Centre logo is built on the Geon theory

• World class township with user sensitivity planning
• Best of amenities & features including sky gardens, lap pools etc.
• Nature nurtured-a carefully-planned green journey & a purposeful
micro-climate
• Inspiration by design
• Powering a sense of belonging

WATERFRONT
STUDIO 18
SITE PLAN
I
SITE PLAN @ 116M LEVEL & 119.4M LEVEL
I SITE PLAN @ 109.2M LEVEL & 112.6M LEVAL
• The 18 residential apartments follow
the organic nature of old Indian cities
with houses stepping back and
creating interlocked built volumes
across three levels.

• In response to the hot arid climate in

the location and temperatures in
excess of 35°c, the apartments are all
oriented towards the North, North-
East and North-West with no
apartment facing the South.
WEST VIEW - F BLOCK SOUTH VIEW - F& D BLOCK NORTH VIEW - C& E BLOCK
COLOUR IN BUILDING BLOCKS

Rajasthan is one of the most colourful states in India. Not only do

the natives wear bright coloured attires with shining jewellery, but
also the cities are colour-coded. Udaipur is known as The White
City, as it is home to innumerable lakes and structures with
marble architecture. Jodhpur is known as the blue city, as the
homes of natives are in hues of blue lime plaster. Jaipur, known as
the pink city, as the buildings here, are painted with terracotta
pink; and Jaisalmer is known as the golden city, due to the houses
built in yellow sandstone and also because of the Thar desert,
which appears in the hues of gold, brown and yellow.

I CONCEPT | ANALYSIS
 • Each apartment is cross ventilated with deep
recessed windows and open to sky terraces.

• Color acts as an integral parameter in

differentiating volumes as well as identifying
circulation spaces interestingly while alluding to
the colors of the region.

• In Rajasthan colour plays an important role in

the lives of the people to compensate for the
miles of arid, sandy terrain they see around
them.

• The circulation spaces connecting the housing

blocks are naturally ventilated with an abstract • The colour palette used is the most
composition of square punctuations on either side significant part of its visual impact.
facilitating air to move through. • The deconstructed cubes sport varied
• The harsh glare of the sun is cut off; yet allowing hues of the sandy region, at different
natural light within the linear corridors and times of the day – visually differentiating
creating different patterns at different times of the the stepped, recessed volumes as well as
day. identifying circulation spaces.
• The linear corridors provide a cool ventilated • With lighter hues on external walls to
sheltered walkway between the apartments reflect heat off the surfaces, and darker
allowing residents to glimpse landscaped spaces tones indoors to create a cooler feel, they
on either side while walking through and making add impact to the highly ‘responsive’
the circulation an interesting experience. design solution.

I CONCEPT | ANALYSIS
 BUILD WITH CONTOUR

I FACADE A
HANGZHOU DUALON
COMMERICAL
COMPLEX

BAU BREARLY ARCHITCTS +

URBANISTS, HUANZHOU
SITE CONTEXT

Typology
Mixed-use Commercial Complex

City
Xiasha, Hangzhou City,
Zhejiang Province, China

Client
Hangzhou DongYuan Real Estate Ltd

Program
17,000sqm retail, 15,700sqm
apartments (346 No), cinemas (6
No), supermarket, underground
parking
SENSITIVE APPROACH TOWARDS CONTEXT

• This project sits in a new district of Xia Sha, Hangzhou, one of

China’s great historical cities and renowned as one of China’s most
verdant cities. The new district typifies contemporary Chinese
urbanism: high density, high speed, highly privatised, and well
engineered, but with surprisingly under developed public open
space. The building typologies in the district, towers and slab
blocks, are treated as objects in space, and only heighten the
isolation of the newly migrated, clan based population.
• To address the isolation of living/working in the new district, a
green roof with added programs for the occupants including gym,
outdoor swimming pool, and roof top kitchen have been added.
By slicing diagonally through the rectilinear perimeter block the
roof gained access to the ground level, and each and every floor
gained immediate access to the roof.
SENSITIVE APPROACH TOWARD USER IN DESIGN

• This project focuses on combining public open space with commercial complex, adding public space for
urban space. Architects developed the building as a perimeter block to create active street and park edges,
and to create a number of public squares, courtyards, and lanes internally; the shopping mall is turned
inside out. The complex can be explored via a number of highly connected or loopy multileveled routes.
SENSITIVE APPROACH TOWARD USER IN DESIGN

• Occupants can come and go to their floor via the external stairs of the
roof garden, or via the traditional internal lobby. At the rooftop garden
entrance to each floor is a terrace with space for occupants of that floor to
meet informally as they cross paths. Within the building there are shared
triple height balconies and atria for occupants use. We believe the scaling
and localising of shared space, from the district scale street edge plaza, to
the shared front door of the units, brings potential for the informal
creation of a range of communities of different scale.
SENSITIVE APPROACH TOWARDS MIXED USE HIGH RISE IN
DEVELOPMENT

• Like a giant urban playground with compressed hill-top, and multi level labyrinthine space, the project
entices the public to explore both the active lower levels and the quiet roof top gardens. Climbers are
rewarded with views over the adjacent Qian Tang River mouth, most famous for its annual tidal wave. The
river surface reverberates across the building’s external facades, setting the walls of balconies into wave
motion. Further presence of the watery context is found in the contoured paving patterns.
ANALYSIS
• The project combines landscape architecture with architecture and urban design. The green roof, at home in
Hangzhou’s garden city, provides the city with a unique public open space, creates social, entertaining,
community garden and recreational space for occupants, and supports a myriad of environmental benefits
including: reducing urban heat island effect (Hangzhou has extreme summers); water recycling (water is
collected from the roof top and reused for watering); providing opportunities for urban farming; and
maintaining flora and fauna in the city.
• Benefits of Green Roof:
• ROOF GARDENS PROVIDE DIVERSE HABITATS
• Roof gardens, when planted with indigenous flora, can provide important habitats for native bird and insect
populations. Green roofs create biodiversity.
• PROVIDE SOCIAL BENEFITS
• Green roofs expand the usefulness of buildings via patios, gardens and vistas. Planting gardens, both at
ground level and in the sky, provide not only great spaces for relaxation and enjoyment, but also are great
to look at!
THANKYOU

NEIL DUSTAKAR_AR-18-010
DIVYANSHU JAISWAL_AR-18-020
VAIBHAV KUMAR_AR-18-030
KINJAL RATHI_AR-18-056
SIDDHARTH SIDHU_AR-18-067
KRIPA SONPAL_AR-18-070