Incremental Housing

INTRODUCTION

 Artist village

 AREA- 5.4 hectares

 TARGET- 500 people (about 100 families)

per hectare.

 YEARS OF CONSTRUCTION- 1983- 1986

 ARCHITECT- Charles Correa

 First incremental housing –mass

affordable housing.

 Low-cost ,flexible ,expandable and

adaptable with local vernacular
architecture
 LOCATION

 Artist village sector -8 Belapur, Navi-Mumbai.

 2 Km from the centre of New Mumbai
 40 KM from Airport
 PRINCIPLES

01 INCREMENTAL
02 OPEN TO SKY SPACE
03 PURALISM
04 EQUITY

05 INCOME GENERATION
PLANNING CHARACTERSTIC
06 HIERARCHY OF SPACE
CLUSTER ARRANGMENT
CONCEPT
Future
expansion
Allowing each family to extend
and adapt their own house
independently

No neighbor wall
Allowing to create their own
small open space

Social status
Settlement of different income
group with low rise courtyard
homes with simple material to
human scale.

Communal space
Courtyard and community space
act as a hierarchy .
 PLANNING Sector planning
 Only two sides have a mandatory
setback and other have built upto
boundary line.  3 group of 7
dwelling unit
 Windows and other openings form
were permitted on an external
wall that abutted the courtyard,  Collective
but none opened on a space of 12m
neighboring house *12m

Cluster
 7 dwelling unit Sub urban levelling
to form planning
courtyard 8m
*8m  3 large module
interlocked with
 private community space
courtyard for (21m *21m)
single dwelling. Service line
 Spatial hierarchy
continued till
neighborhood
space is formed
2 double floor
and 5 single
floor
 TYPOLOGY
A
 LIVING ROOM

3D VIEW  KITCHEN
PLAN AND ELEVATION
 BATH AND W/C

 VERANDAH
 Entrance verandah
 One room OR 2
bedroom for special
B type block
 Kitchen  2 rooms
 Bath and toilet with a  Kitchen
 yard  Bath and toilet with yard
 Courtyard and courtyard
 ELEVATION OF TYPE E
BUILDING

 Double storey-
 Double storey
 two bedrooms on ground floor
 studio and balcony
 Two room on first floor
 two bedrooms,
 kitchen,
 kitchen,
 bath, toilets,
 bath, toilets,
 yard and courtyard.
 yard and courtyard.
 Utility area
 CONSTRUCTION AND TECHNOLOGY
Technology-
 External brick walls
 Roof structure covered with wooden shingles

01 03
Mangalore tile roof
Plaster of
white color

02
wooden fixtures
04
Outdoor paving
stone blocks
 ANALYSIS

ADDITION REPLACEMENT
 Introduction new  Introduced new layout
structure  Discarding old design
 Intervention added  Constructing a new house
up to the original on the same plot.
structure
 Higher degree of
transformation
PERSONALIZA
TION
addition  Addition of different
color to the house
replacement  Addition of patios,
sit-outs, low
personalization compounds with
grills.
 Redesigning the building

Personalization by treating
Personalization by painting the edge
StreetSide reconstruction
 CLIMATIC RESPONSE TO
DESIGN
01 02
 Sloping roof deal with a heavy  A nullah helped to drain the excess rainwater
rainfall in the monsoon and stream water from the waterfall.
 Streams for 4 months and maintains a cool
environment.
 COMPONENTS OF SERVICES

ADVANTAGE
 Quality of life of a settlement
 Ample amount of green space creating a cool environment
 Sense of security – boundary wall for every houses.
 Enhanced interaction allowing the essence of the village
 DRAWBACKS
 Most of the houses have been remodelled or
Redesign destroyed and rebuilt as some inhabitants said
they were very impractical (toilets outside the
house).
• Modern materials and technologies (concrete
Technology and construction houses) - resulting to the change in aspirant of
resident.

Maintance  Poor maintenance in common area

 No arrangements have been made for fire safety

Fire safety provisions.

Transformation of  Street facing houses were transformed into mixed

residential use.(commercial and residential)
building
 Proper spaces were not provided leading the owner
Management of to sold their house.
Spaces  No proper provision for parking- encroachment
of open space
 RECOMMENDATION

BYE LAWS 1 2 PLANNING

New guideline and bye laws Advance planning to provide
formulated for the extension for the possibility for further
of the residence. expansion

MAINTENANCE CONSTRUCTION
Proper maintenance of the Utilization local material and
common areas
4 3 .