A case presentation on Landscape in Housing Projects

1. Landscape in housing
projects
Poduval Dhanya Pravin
Elective, 4th Semester
M.Plan (Housing), SPA - Delhi

2. Need for Landscape in Housing
• Social Development
• Environment
• Aesthetics
• Welfare & Economic Development

3. Factors Influencing Design Elements
• Culture & Ethnicity
• Age group
• Gender
• Function attached
• Sense of security

4. Indicators considered
• Shape & Form of Building Block
• Services at Master Plan Level
• Circulation Network
• Form of Open Space
• Elements of Landscape Design

5. Laburnum, Gurgaon
LOCATION : BLOCK - A, SUSHANT LOK, GURGAON
SITE AREA : 13.14 ACRES.
BUILT-UP AREA : 14,00,000 SQ. FT.
TOTAL NO. OF UNITS : 273
• Premium residential community,
• Self-contained luxury condominium
with a mix of town houses, midrise
apartments and towers.
• Facilities include full power backup,
recreational facilities including
squash courts, swimming pool etc.
• Upper middle class market.
• 273 condominiums varying in size
from 300 to 600 square meter full
floor penthouse units.
• The structure is concrete frame
with partitions of light-weight
aerated concrete block.
• 19 storey towers

6. Site Plan
Types of Residential Units :
1. Sky Court
2. Gardens Greens
3. Court Greens
4. Terrace Heights
5. Separate block for EWS

7. Built Form & Circulation
Heavy mass in the center
Hierarchy in built mass and height
Minimal road circulation
Formation of Courtyard like open spaces

8. • The landscape design is
a series of courtyards
linked by a continuous
pedestrian movement.
• Water is used as a theme
in two courtyards.
• Binding Negative
Covered Spaces into the
landscape.
Form of OpenSpace

9. Form of Open Space
• Courtyard green spaces
• Pedestrian pathway as a link between the spaces.
• Emphasis on the central foci
• Green flowing through the stilt

10. Form of Open Space
• Emphasis on the entry
• Use of negative / covered spaces to define landscape on
plot level
• Water as the concept for the landscape

11. • It is one of the first projects where 100 per cent
basement parking is achieved with drain board based
sub surface drainage for the deck slab.
• Trelises as green cover to basement entry
Form of Open Space

12. • Studio marco
vermeulen was
rewarded with
honorable mention for
in the d3 Housing
Tomorrow
Competition for their
project entitled “Living
Landscape.”
• The central theme for
the design is the
landscape experience,
with a study of the
traditional Dutch
housing as a
typological precedent.
Living Landscape

13. • Its roots lay within
traditional Dutch housing
which has a back-to-back
orientation with a
density of approximately
36 dwellings per hectare.
• The dwelling are situated
front to back. The
density of the Dutch
housing is maintained.
The orientation was
shifted to provide
optimal orientation
towards the sun for all of
the dwellings in the
proposal.
Living Landscape Each plot is orientation with its side walls to the street, allowing for
the garden and backyard to have a stereet edge in an effort to
enhance the liveliness in the neighborhood. The extension of the
garden into the street is a departure from conventional back-to-back
private homes. With this shift of orientation the housing are semi-
detached.

14. Living Landscape
• Each plot is orientation with its side walls to the
street, allowing for the garden and backyard to have a
street edge in an effort to enhance the liveliness in
the neighborhood.
• The extension of the garden into the street is a
departure from conventional back-to-back private
homes.
• With this shift of orientation the housing are semi-
detached.

15. Living Landscape
• The roofs of the houses are
grass covered, giving a
sculptural and extended view
of the landscape from the
living rooms of neighboring
dwellings.
• The living rooms are located
under the sculptural lifted roof,
providing more daylight into
the public area of the house.
• Other rooms such as the
bedrooms, storage areas and
bathrooms are located on the
ground floor.
• A patio provides outdoor
access and extra daylight into
the smaller bedrooms and
dining room.

16. Living Landscape