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    The Tara Apartment complex in New Delhi, India was designed by renowned Indian architect Charles Correa and completed in 1978. It consists of 160 housing units spread across 1.48 hectares to provide social housing for the middle class. Correa designed the complex to have a central garden and turn its back to the street to avoid noise and dust, while maximizing light and ventilation for residents. Each unit has an open terrace and residents can directly access the interior garden, promoting a sense of community.

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    The Tara Apartment complex in New Delhi, India was designed by renowned Indian architect Charles Correa and completed in 1978. It consists of 160 housing units spread across 1.48 hectares to provide social housing for the middle class. Correa designed the complex to have a central garden and turn its back to the street to avoid noise and dust, while maximizing light and ventilation for residents. Each unit has an open terrace and residents can directly access the interior garden, promoting a sense of community.

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    The Tara Apartment complex in New Delhi, India was designed by renowned Indian architect Charles Correa and completed in 1978. It consists of 160 housing units spread across 1.48 hectares to provide social housing for the middle class. Correa designed the complex to have a central garden and turn its back to the street to avoid noise and dust, while maximizing light and ventilation for residents. Each unit has an open terrace and residents can directly access the interior garden, promoting a sense of community.

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    TARA HOUSING GROUP

    Charles Correa
    Tara Apartment is one kind of social projects
    that is intended for the middle-class of Nehru
    center. This building is designed by one of the
    INDIA most famous Indian architects at this time,
    Charles Correa, and completed in 1978. Tara
    housing group has more than 125 units and
    375 persons per hectare. The Tara pays deeply
    attention to the inner activities which are al-
    Building location most happen in the central garden and leave
    the interaction of traffic behind a wall which is
    parallel to Guru Ravidas Marg Street( the
    Location: New Delhi, India South-East).
    Date: 1975-1978
    Site: 1.48 ha
    Program: Social housing with 160 units
    of two and three-bedroom flats
    Client: Tara Housing Society
    Architect: Charles Correa
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    ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| SITE

    Description: The project is located along


    Guru Ravidas Marg Street which leads to two
    big residential areas in the North and the
    South. It is in the suburb of middle-class.
    Therefore, it creates a harmonious and bal-
    ance volume with the existing fabric due to
    A limited height and the form of the building.
    More than that, the project also plays an im-
    portant part in linking these other buildings
    with the adjacent park.

    Evaluation: The building turns its back on


    the street to prevent noise, dust from the
    high flow vehicles. Being staked as a row,
    central garden, big overhangs and sharp
    edges, all give these buildings a sense of In-
    dian characteristic under hot sun, full of light
    A without suffering from high temperature.

    Figure Ground

    Section A-A

    South East Section


    Inverse Figure Ground Gradient public (light)-private (dark) Porosity

    Car circulation Slow road network Main site entrances


    |
    |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| BUILDING

    Description: The duplex units are accessed either


    at ground floor or second floor levels by outdoor
    stair cases. There are two kinds of flat: the two-
    bedroom flats with 84 square metres (3 metres
    wide, 6 metres high with two floors and 15 metres
    long, the three-bedroom flats with 130 square me-
    tres and have the shape of L, there are just only 16
    three-bedroom flats were built. Each unit is pro-
    vided an open terrace which is protected by a per-
    gola and big overhangs. Two sides of the project
    are connected by staircases.

    Evaluation: The concept of building allows


    people to access directly to the interior garden.
    More than that, everyone also has their own
    open-to-sky terraces with full filled shadow. By
    taking advantages of sun, wind directions and
    open spaces, hence lighting access and ventila-
    tion to each dwelling are maximized.

    Two-bedroom flat
    Three-bedroom flat

    Parking lot and lighting accessibility


    Natural ventilation
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    ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| DWELLING

    Description: The dwellings are grouped into


    some small and medium blocks. Some blocks
    are assembled only by two-bedroom flat, some
    3 metres wide and 15 metres long
    are combined between two-bedroom type and
    three-bedroom type. It creates the diversity of
    form but still maintains the logic of dwellings
    functions.
    Ground floor However, there are just 16 three-bedroom flats
    so that it is not sufficient for families which
    have more than 4 members.

    Two-bedroom type

    Combination

    Three-bedroom type and combination

    Two-bedroom flat
    Two-bedroom type

    The complex is formed due to


    the combination between pairs of
    Ground floor plan accommodation units.
    The second floor which is larger
    than the ground one with a big
    overhang that rises further ap-
    proximately 6 metres gives the
    mixture between shadow and
    Second floor plan light. More than that, the duplex
    above is also push back hence
    front of the below one is pro-
    tected too. In that way, the whole
    central garden is full filled with
    shadow.

    Section

    Volumetric scheme
    Flat As ground floor plan

    Flat Bs ground floor plan

    Three-bedroom type

    Flat As second floor plan

    Flat twos second floor plan

    In the shape of L, this type


    seems to be difficult to attach in
    the middle of a cluster and all of
    them are located in the outer-
    most.

    Volumetric scheme
    Dwelling typology
    x ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| CONCEPT

    The main concept in Tara housing group project is a crea-


    tive vernacular typology in term of arranging and piling
    the singular flat into united blocks. By separating with the
    outside world and providing an interior garden, the build-
    ing preserves well the private life of families within. More
    than that, just pedestrians are allowed go inside the hous-
    ing group and the parking lot is in the back of the build-
    ing.
    In term of a social housing group, the project takes big
    advantages from natural resources like lighting and venti-
    lation and all families are equally shared these features.
    Indian sense is illustrated in the use of concrete bands,
    panels of exposed bricks, portals, overhangs and shape
    edges.
    Reference sources:
    Charles Correa - Architect in India (page 62-65)

    http://identityhousing.wordpress.com/2009/12/03/charles-correa-tara-group-housing-delhi-1975-1978/

    Low-Rise High-Density Housing_ A Feasible Alternative (HCMC UARC KULEUVEN, Bruno De Meulder, Kelly
    Shannon, page 38-43)

    http://www.charlescorrea.net/

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