aranya housing, indore
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GEOGRAPHY
COUNTRY - INDIASTATE – MADHYA PRADESHREGION - MALWADISTRICT – INDOREELEVATION – 553 mCOORDINATES – 220 43” N 750 54” EPOPULATION – 1,964,086
ARCHITECTUREIndore has architecturally significant buildings in a wide range of styles spanning distinct historical and cultural periods of Holkar (Maratha), Mughal and British era.
ABOUT
• SITE – 6 kms north of Indore city.• CLIENT – Indore Debvelopment Authority, Indore , India.• ARCHITECT – Vastu – Shilpa Foundation ; B. V. Doshi• PLANNER – Himanshu H. Parikh•ENGINEER – Muktirajsinhji Chauhan•CONSULTANT ENGINEERS – V. D. Joshi , S. L. Shah , Deepak Kantawala , Dinesh Panchal.• LAND AREA – 220 acres• PHASE I – 100 hectares• NO. OF PLOTS – 6500• POPULATION (projected)- 40,000 (initial) 65,000 (final)• PLANNING - 1982
TOPOGRAPHY
• The site is flat with no major physical features, except a natural rainwater channel that runs diagonally across the south-west corner.• An accurate level survey shows a fall of 9 meters across the site’s width of one kilometer, which gives a gradient of 1 in 110.
SOIL
• The site and the rest of the city has a 2-2.5-metre-thick top strata of evenly deposited black cotton soil, expansive clay with some organic content.• Soil is very unreliable bearing material, as it is highly adhesive, soft, expand in volume when wet and shrinks heavily when dry.
•Indore has a borderline Humid Subtropical climate.
• Average summer temperature – 400C• Average winter temperature – 8 – 260C• Rainfall – 180 – 360 mm
COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURES
AREA REQUIREMENTS FOR EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES
LEVELS OF ACCESSIBILTY
At the community/ street level, the aim was to produce a design linking the scale of the built form and the human scale by incorporating a street life with plugged cluster houses, sympathetic and aesthetically complimenting each other and a socio cultural life of community interaction of families in the “otta” (outdoor platform).
• An important feature of the Indian home, at the service space between house, community spaces and the cul-de-sac.
• The street corner spaces are formed by the alternating arrangement of the road, the green space, and the pedestrian pathway
SITE AND SERVICE APPROACH
• Cost – effective. Progressive development of facilities.• Houses built by the people themselves to suit their needs. Each family provided with a plot having a water tank , sewerage connection , paved access with street lights , storm water drainage.Houses were clustered in a group of 10.Septic tank provided for every 2 clusters.Water drawn from 3 local reservoirs.To economize , 20 toilets are connected to 1 manhole.
Literature study: Aranya