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India used to have a traditional approach as far as residential settlements were concerned-
individual bungalows or stand-alone houses for affluent class people, and linear skeleton
housing for low-income groups. The complex turns its back to the street, virtually an oasis
within the endless, vast desert of high-volume Delhi traffic and noise and dust pollution. An
introvert street configuration was the need of the hour to protect the inhabitants from the
extreme heat and humidity. The central green zone gives the families a community space
sheltered from the outside extremities and provides the complex a unique, exclusive look and
feel.
Critical regionalism seeks to balance local needs and capabilities with the progressive lessons
of modernisation. Critical regionalism has been an influential architectural approach in
postcolonial Indian architecture. India had subconsciously begun pursuing the ideas of critical
regionalism in designing its buildings. Complex housing projects started getting developed
through the regionalist approach. Critical regionalist designs are sensitive to the local climate
as well as the technological constraints of the local building industry. The practitioners of
critical regionalism seek to integrate global architectural and technological developments with
regional sensibilities derived from spatial, cultural and historical contexts.
A creative vernacular typology in terms of arranging and piling the singular flat into united
blocks. Providing thermal relief to inhabitants during the harsh summer sun, with big
overhangs over the units and a central garden, allowing infiltration of ample light within the
units while preventing high temperatures and separating the outside world and providing an
interior garden, the building preserves the private life of families within.
Natural ventilation
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