TITAN TOWNSHIP

Bangalore
Town Planning
Submitted by:
Rewa Marathe
Pallavi Chitnis
Aradhya Mishra

Specifics

Located in Hosur, near Bengaluru.

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.

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.

Central area

Titan
workshop
Titan township

12m
wide
road
20m wide
road

CENTRAL
AREA

MASTER PLAN TITAN

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.

TYPICAL
MODULE

12m wide road

SECTOR
ENTRANCE

VIEW OF
GUEST HOUSE

VIEW OF
CLUSTER

Common
activities

VIEW OF ENTRANCE TO SECTOR

VIEW OF GUEST HOUSE FROM

CENTRAL GREEN AREA

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
The ratio given above varies and so do the types in the
cluster.

Typical
Cluster
Ground Floor

TYPICAL CLUSTER
FIRST FLOOR

Each house is directly connected to the public

roads at one end and to the community backgarden 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.

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 /m 2

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 clusters

96768

26%(excluding green area)

Green area in clusters

25200

7%

Central Green area

4000

1.11%

Total green area

57200

15.8%

Total built up area

97746

27%

Analysis
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