HOUSING

LITERATURE CASE STUDY KANCHANJAUNGA APPARTEMENTS

 CLIMATE
Warm and humid
Since Mumbai is a coastal city, the weather is mostly humid year round. Also as it is in The Kanchenjunga
tropics, it never gets very cold and the yearly extremes lie within a 30 degree Celsius apartments is a direct
range. response to the present
society, the escalating
 ORIENTATION urbanization, and the
• In Mumbai, a building has to be oriented climatic conditions for the
east‐west to catch prevailing sea breezes region .
and to open up the best views of the city.
Unfortunately, these are also the directions • AREA : 441 sq. Mt
of the hot sun and the heavy monsoon
rains
• SITE AND SITUATION :
City landscape
surrounded by mid -
TYPE A LAYOUT rise and high -rise
structures .
THE KANCHENJUNGA APARTMENTS is a 28 storey
building containing 32 luxury apartments ranging in size
from 3 to 6 bedrooms .

• HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING- 84 Mt

• CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL- CONCRETE
• BUILDING TYPE- SKYSCRAPER
• ARCHITECTURAL STYLE- MORDERN BRUTILISM
ENTRANCE
• This was mediated through the unit design in the
ARABIAN SEA traditional bungalow style. The bungalow wrapped A
HARBOUR PROTECTIVE LAYER OF VERANDAH AROUND THE MAIN
LIVING SPACE PROVIDING TWO LINES OF DEFENSE
62.5% get view of harbor and remaining of Arabian sea AGAINST THE CLIMATE OF THE AREA.

 STRUCTURE
• RCC structure completely.
• 6.3 m Cantilever
• Slip form first time used in India
• Tube system with shear wall

 THE BIG LOGGIAS

PROVIDED HELPS IN TWO WAYS:

• IT CREATS AN VISTAS AND

INTEGRATES THE INSIDE WITH THE
OUTSIDE.
• IT ALSO PROVIDE A SHADE FROM THE • The CENTRAL CORE of the • The SEVICES of the building
SUN AND HUMIDITY. building houses lifts and aligned to the EAST AND THE
other services also provides WEST CORNERS OF
• The tower has a proportion of 1 : 4 ( being 21 meters square and 84 meters the main structural element APPARTMENT
high ) . for resisting lateral loads.
• Its minimalist unbroken surfaces are cut away to open up the
double height terrace gardens at the corners, thus revealing some  MODULARITY
hint of complex spatial organization of living spaces that lie within • Lot size approx. : 5260 sq. m
the tower. • Footprint of the tower : 441 sq. m
• Number of residences : 32
• Number of floors: 28
Window to Wall ratio:
- A unit 3 bedrooms x 10 : 294 sq.
The living and dining space – 48%,
- B unit 3 bedrooms x 12 : 242 sq.
NW bed rm - 34%
- C unit 5 bedrooms x 8 : 373 sq. m
SE Master bed rm - 45%.
- D unit 4 bedrooms x 4 : 361 sq.

32 FLATS – 200 PEOPLE

34%
TYPE A TYPE C
48%
45%
 LIGHT AND VENTILATION
The highest solar gain receiving rooms
Amount-8
are selected. The rooms, which are used • MAX WINDOWS ARE AT THE WEST AND THE EAST SIDE Bedroom-4 Amount-6
Bedroom-5
most of the time by the occupants. 2 big loggia
1 big loggia
SW facade
SE facade

TYPE A SPECIAL TYPE C SPECIAL

Amount-1 Amount-2
Bedroom-4 Bedroom-5
1 big loggia 1 big loggia
SE facade SW OR NE facade

TYPE D
TYPE B

Amount-2
Bedroom-4
Amount-8 2 big loggia
Bedroom-3 TYPE E SW OR NE facade
1 big loggia
BEDROOM SW facade

LIVING
Amount-2
Bedroom-6
3 big loggia
TYPE A TYPE B TYPE C TYPE D SW OR NE facade

• SMALLER DISPLACEMENT OF LEVELS WERE CRITICAL • THIS STUBLE SHIFT ENABLED CORREA TO EFFECTIVELY SHIELD  PROBLEMS FACED IN THE BUILDING
IN THIS WORK IT DIFFRENTIATE BETWEEN THE HIS BUILDING. •Structural inapt for the ground.
EXTERNAL EARTH FILLED TERRACES AND THE • THIS WAS ACHIEVED BY PROVIDING THE TOWER WITH •Water seepage from verandah
INTERNAL ELEVATED LIVING VOLUMES RELATIVELY DEEP GARDENS , VERANDAHS SUSPENDED IN AIR •Noise from Peddar Road

SUBMITTED TO:- DR. GURUKRIPAL SINGH SUBMITTED BY:- KANUPRIYA THAKUR

IKG PTU CAMPUS MOHALI-II AR. KOMAL THAKUR 1736252