Indian

Habitat
Center,
New Delhi
“City in a garden”

Aishwarya Yadav 15/203

Ashutosh Datta 15/208
Ayushi Arora
15/209
Naman Jain
15/223
Introduction to Indian Habitat Center

Spread over nine acres amidst beautifully landscaped environs at the Capital's finest location, India Habitat Centre was
designed and conceived as an ideal physical environment in complete harmony with the habitat.

A complex in a campus-like plan grouped around interlinked plazas and courtyards. The construction is a concrete
frame with brick infill. 7 beautifully landscaped outdoor facilities are provided where sitting, hanging out, refreshment
or simply aesthetical value increases.

The spaces are bound to provide a natural habitat to the birds and other insects inside the habitat center.
Value of Landscape in I.H.C
Inside the habitat center : What we hear, what we see, what we feel ?
Indian habitat center is a relief in the city.
As you enter, you see the fading horn noises, the chirping birds, the playful fish and a play of
shadows amidst the large area of plants, sculptures and hardscape.
1. It reduces the noise pollution.
2. Increases the footfall, hence, increase in the income of the place.
3. Home to different insects and birds where, though in small safe, they can breath.
4. Manages the microclimate of the space.
5. Inviting the user experience, through design and landscaping.
6. Serves as a public place to relax and an architecture master piece to understand.
7. The sculptures and artifacts increase the income of the artist, if impressed by the work.
8. Provides as a barrier even between two essential spaces like O.A.T, Auditorium, Food court
etc.
9. Serves as a community space for people to interact, earn by performances.
10. A welcoming workspace, as proven by research, green scapes and fresh environment like
adequate wind and sun increase productivity.
Plan of Indian Habitat Center

The plan : It offers buffer spaces, transition

spaces and kiosks which are inculcated with
Greenery all over.

Over the O.A.T, sitting spaces, sculptures,

main gates and main entrances on all three
parts : we can see that trees according to the
spaces :
1. Sculpted
2. Potted
3. Planter boxed
4. Naturally grown over cement
5. Directional
6. Water plants
7. Shady trees
8. Large green scape
Has been offered to the user such as guests,
visitors, staff and tourists.
Landscape features- observed during case study

– Fountains - Sculptures
– Pedestrians - Ponds
– Kiosks - Potted Plants
– Side seating - Variety of trees as per the use
– Parks
– Garden(s)
– Entrance porch – green area(s)
– Vertical Garden
– Terrace Garden
Specifications :

- Planter boxes
The Planter boxes are put among the sitting
spaces,
To keep it green, yet defined.
- Potted plants have been used in the
entrances,
On the hardscape, in the buffer places and as an
element beside the walkways.
– Sculptures :
They have been used to fill the gaps in built and
unbuilt environment, the hollow space when
occupied by changing or same sculptures makes a
transition space look better.
Generally, the sculpture were made of wood,
stone or ceramic.
Specifications :

– Green Areas: The spaces for rejuvenation, shade and serves a sitting space
during breaks, intermission or waiting for the exhibitions.
Some specific plants noticed in dominance over the landscaped
areas :

- – Kentia Palm
– Parior palm
– Blueleaf
Chamaedoreo
– Slender Lady
palm
Some specific plants noticed in dominance over the landscaped
areas :
– Sago Palm
Scientific name : Cycas revoluta
Family: Cycadaceae
Intake of sago before proper processing to remove
toxins can cause vomiting, liver damage, and even
death. Recent evidence indicates that the toxins have
neurotoxic effects and now it is considered to be a slow
poison.
– Money plant
Scientific name : Epipremnum aureum
Family : Araceae
Feng Shui principles regard money plant as one of the
best plants to purify air polluted with synthetic
chemicals from furniture and cleaning solutions. It
energizes the home by filtering air and increasing
oxygen inflow.
Madagascar Dragon tree
Scientific Name : Dracaena marginata
Family : Asparagus Family
Function : The Madagascar dragon tree (Dracaena marginata)
is an evergreen-like plant that varies in size, from a small
ornamental plant to a small tree
Bamboo Palm Tree
Scientific Name : Dypsis lutescens
Family : Arecaceae
Function : Plants are useful for removal of many
harmful chemicals and pollutants from the air. Based
on plants habitat they are widely divided as shade
loving and sun-loving plants. Add Good Vibes.
Features of landscape in I.H.C :
– The lotus pond
The lotus pond has been a
special feature in the overall
IHC execution to the landscape,
surrounded by palms, they are
an effective element to become a
sitting space.
Pebbles as a base around have
been used.
- Green areas outside Restaurants
The green entrance to the restaurant
and the food court Eatopia is for also a
reason to enjoy the outside sitting
space in a café, in middle of the city,
attracting tourists and costumers not
only through brand but landscaping
too.
 Pedestrian walkways

Stone
– Stone
The architect has thought of the paved area very
intricately. He has connected different spaces with
these pavements. He had worked very finely on the
sizes of the tiles that are used in paved areas.
– Tile
The presence of these tiles at different places gives a
very soothing feel to the eyes of the
observer. The tiles are present in a regular pattern and
thus it completes the hierarchy of the whole structure.
Stein has given a very deep thought while placing these
tiles as he has placed these tiles at those places where
the focus of the observer moves instantly when he
enters from one space to another.

Tile
Types of Gardens

– Vertical Garden – Terrace Garden

Terrace gardens for library reading
Special provision has been given in each
members, small staff meetings have
block for the same, it helps in lowering the
been given which can be accessed only
effects of release of heat from the concrete,
by the selective people of I.H.C.
henceforth, it is an important element to be
Reducing the impact of the cemented
incorporated.
roof, slows the impact of scorching
heat.
 Features
– Steps and Ramps
Alongside the ramps and steps, money
plants and other creepers have been hung
on the walls serving as a barrier to the
outside visual. Also planter box have been
planted with various palms continuing the
lush green along the path.
– Entrances
Welcoming entrances, giving a different
scape on all three gates for the vehicular
movement, a visual experience suited to the
driver as well as a visitor. It makes user
experience count.
 Well maintained green areas with sitting spaces

– Green buffer spaces – Fish Ponds with Lotus

1. Green spaces reduce 2. The ponds are

the outside noise, well maintained,
which is why, a user with fishes and
may experience least lotus providing a
traffic sounds and decrease in
horns when inside the temperature,
center. increase in breeze.
Other facilities in the Habitat center for
maintaining the developed landscape :
Proper facilities have been given for the landscaping like pipes, drain holes, internal
fountains, fishes are also a reason for the same. Orderly plants suggest a well maintained
scape for greenery.

– Dripping water through the cemented – Water pipes running through the plants
plant base on each floor. in the walkway areas
 Inferences :
1. The pathways in the areas
were in potted form, to give
direction to the user,
through the ramps.

2. European Bamboo has been

used in many areas, through the
overall brick textured platforms,
to create a visual barrier in
between different spaces.

3. Sculptures in different areas

of metal, stone and wood have
been used along in the buffer
spaces.

4. All the entrances had

California Palms and outdoor
fountains, sculpted green scapes
and bushes. This gave a
welcoming look to the entrances
on all the gates.
 Many potted and house plants with the
The pedestrians had The welcoming gesture by the architect has
bushes well carved, a protection of brick
straight planted bushes, been constructed.
layer as a railing serves as a barrier to
potted plants of various Ramps have been hidden for the parking of
the ramp. This is the where the
species in the paths. the cars, while for the handicapped the
handicap people can make use of the
ramps were given with the alongside
universal design, though, it is difficult to
The tiles were to give a plants: money plants and various house
recognize by the user for a distance.
differentiation between plants like Sansiveria laurentii, Mexican
spaces, a sense of various palm and Bamboo palm.
areas to the user.
The ponds were given at a
The spaceframe structure gives Landscape interventions to
distance, to maintain a
the protection from the direct make a space interact more :
microclimate over these
sun, adding the palms and The chits have been a way for
spaces.
grass, the space lets the air people to express, while making
Shaded and lush green with
flow from the between. it a sculpture, this is how
water lowers the temperature
landscaping may encourage
and makes the place usable.
social behavior
Thankyou!!