Udaan

Low cost mass housing project

https://architecturelive.in/low-cost-housing-sameep-padora-and-associates/
https://issuu.com/darshi_kapadia/docs/community_housing_in_the_indian_context_-_a_genera
1464348569269E_brochure.pdf
  What is Affordable Housing?
Affordable housing refers to housing units that are affordable by that section
of society whose income is below the median household income.

Economically Weak Middle Income Lower Income

Sector (EWS) Group (MIG) Group (LIG)

• Rapidly rising land prices in Mumbai is forcing out the families that serve the privileged
classes.
• The domestic help, drivers, sweepers, peons etc. are the invisible citizens that daily ensure
smooth running of the city.
• Currently they are being dis-housed from their decades old housing, since this has caught
the eye of developers; and they are forced to relocate further from their primary sources of
income. Currently, this segment forms 50-60 % of the urban population of Mumbai.

So the Ar. Sameep Padora has significantly thought of these class of people to give them a
shelter with affordable cost keeping their lifestyle in mind.
 INDIA
MAHARASHTRA
KARJAT UDAAN HOUSING
TEMPERATURE: 25.8 DEGREE CELSIUS
Year of
completion 2015
• KARJAT IS 57M ABOVE
SEA LEVEL. KARJAT No. of Houses 552
HAS A TROPICAL
CLIAMTE IN WINTER. Unit Size 30 m2
• IN WINTER, THERE IS
MUCH LESS RAINFALL Cluster Size 10 m x 36 m
IN KARJAT THAN IN No of houses in
SUMMER. 100
a cluster
• THE ANNUAL AVERAGE
TEMPERATURE IN Density 1395/ha
KARJAT IS 25.8 DEGREE
Maximum No.
CELSIUS of floors
5
 MATHERAN

ASHANE WATERFALL

BHIMSHANKAR WILDLIFE
RESERVE

MORBE DAM

PALI- BHUTIWALI DAM

KARNALA BIRD CENTURY

6M NANDADEEP
KACCHA RESIDENCY
ROAD
15 M WIDE
ROAD

SITE PLAN

UDAAN
LOW COST
HOUSING

Main Entrance
Parking
WIND DIRECTION -
SW Amenity Space
N
 CONCEPT
Total BUA proposed: 19080 sq.mt
Total Units proposed (assuming 300 sq.ft): 522
Phase wise allocation:
Phase 1: 255
Phase 2: 267
Learning from the research into indigenous housing typologies, for migrant
workers in Mumbai, led to four variant designs based on the same grid.
Each satisfied the requirements of a particular type of family.
1 RK
1 BHK
Mezzanine Unit All the unit types are clubbed together in the same building, allowing a mix of
Mixed Unit user groups and creating a richer social fabric. All units have an identical width
of 3.6mt (approx 12ft) which is generated by the Wet Pod requirements
3.6×1.5m.

Different units are clubbed together in a single

building to eliminate the class difference
arising due to different flat sizes.
 Accessibility/ View to Private Open spaces
Cluster Type Plot Configuration Unit Configuration Transition Spaces
Common Space – LVL 0

Private Open spaces Cluster Orientation Hierarchy of Open

Cluster Repetition Street Network
– LVL 1 Opportunities Space

Maximum distance
Vertical Repetition
to Open space

Analysis of UDAAN
Housing
 SECTION BB’

B B’

A’ SECTION AA’

LIVE WORK UNIT

 SECTION AA’

A A’

Design- a modular, but non-repetitive scheme,

with a mix of 1 Room Kitchen (RK) and 1
Bedroom Kitchen (BHK), which can be
combined to form permutations suiting the fluid
requirements of users, with a minimum area of
1 RK UNIT 300sq.ft as mandated.
 SECTION AA’

A A’

1 BHK UNIT
SECTION BB’

SECTION AA’

A B’ A’

MEZANNINE UNIT
 Forms a bridge
between 2
3D VIEW
buildings

SECTION

Users experience a
closer connection to
the ground.
Amenity Space Units

Community spaces like a ration shop, crèche, a gym, a

gathering space that have been built into the design to
ELEVATION foster a sense of community.
 SECTIONAL
PERSPECTIVE
 Scalability Feasibility and Speed of Construction
1 RK UNIT 1 BHK UNIT
• The design is modular.
• The Wet Pods also act as structural,
precast, loadbearing modules
between which the slabs are
spanned and eliminate the need for
extra columns and beams.
• Since part of the building module is
WORK UNIT MEZANNINE UNIT fabricated off-site and simply put into
place on site, the actual time taken
for construction is much less than a
conventional RCC framed one both
in terms of time and labour involved.
• Different techniques of precast
technology were explored before
settling for the load bearing, precast
pod system.
• Through this method, we are able to
• The idea of scalability works at many levels here. build upto G+4 in 21 days as
• There is already preset 4 typologies that can be selected opposed to casting one slab in 21
depending on the current needs of each family, using the days using conventional RCC frame
same module width of 3.6-m.  construction.
• The individual unit is scalable by joining adjacent units when the  
family scales up in size and economics.
• The precast building technology ensures that the building phases can
be scaled up with minimum disruption to the existing structure.