2. OVERVIEW
âȘ Introduction
âȘ About Charles Correa
âȘ Innovation
âȘ Pathway Study
âȘ Transparency
âȘ Interiors & Views
3. INTRODUCTION
âȘ Architect: Charles Correa
âȘ Location : Bombay, India
âȘ Date: 1970 â 1983
âȘ Building Type: Skyscraper multifamily housing
âȘ Construction System: Concrete
âȘ Climate: Hot
âȘ Style: Modern
4. ABOUT CHARLES CORREA
âȘ Indian architect, Urban planner and an activist.
âȘ Born: September 1, 1930(Age 83)
âȘ Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
University of Michigan
âȘ Awards: Royal Gold Medal, 7th Aga Khan Award for
Architecture, Gold Medal of UIA
5. ORIENTATION
âȘ In Mumbai, buildings are ideally orientated east-west to catch the
prevailing sea-breezes, and views out to the Arabian Sea on one side
and the harbour on the other: the same directions as the hot afternoon
sun and heavy monsoon rains.
âȘ Old bungalows solved these problems by wrapping a protective layer of
verandas
âȘ Kanchanjunga apartments are located south-west.
7. INNOVATION
âȘ Interlock of four different apartment typologies varying from 3 to 6
bedrooms each.
âȘ Smaller displacements of levels.
âȘ Differentiated between the external earth filled terraces and the
internal elevated living volumes.
âȘ Effectively shield these high rise units from the effects of both the sun
and monsoon rains.
âȘ Achieved by providing the tower with relatively deep, garden verandas,
suspended in the air.
9. INNOVATION
âȘ The building is a 32 story reinforced concrete structure with 6.3m
cantilevered open terraces.
âȘ The central core is composed of lifts and provides the main structural
element for resisting lateral loads.
âȘ The central core was constructed ahead of the main structure by slip
method of construction.
12. MATERIALS & COLOURS
âȘ The garden terraces of Kanchanjunga
apartments are actually a modern
interpretation of a feature of the
traditional Indian bungalow; Veranda.
âȘ In India and other Asian countries, one
finds a predominance of reds and yellows.