TITAN TOWNSHIPBangalore

Town Planning

Submitted by:Rewa Marathe Pallavi Chitnis

Aradhya Mishra

Specifics Located in Hosur, near Bengaluru. Designed by Charles Correa. The client, one of the most successful and enlightened

industrial units in India, wished to set up housing for their workers

Not in the form of an isolated company town, but as an integral part of the new urbanisation taking place outside the small town of Hosur.

Green areas created by Titan are accessible to the public at large.

Many of the sites and houses are being sold to outsiders. There is a natural mix of population, right from the start.

Site

It is located in the outskirts of the city of Hosur and is just off the Mathigiri road and is about 3 kms from the railway station.

The city experiences a pleasantly moderate climate.

The site is mostly flat. It surrounded by privately owned

residential plots.

Titan township

Central area

Titan workshop

12m wide road20m wide road

MASTER PLAN TITAN TOWNSHIP

CENTRAL AREA

The basic square modules are 48 metres by 48 metres and these are combined to form clusters of 2,4,8 or 16 modules.

The roads servicing these modules are kept to very short cul-de-sacs, so they can carry an unusually high level of service infrastructure (underground electric lines, cable television, etc) and yet make it such infrastructure affordable in the Indian economic context.

TYPICAL MODULE

Common activitiesVIEW OF

GUEST HOUSESECTOR

ENTRANCE

12m wide road

VIEW OF CLUSTER

VIEW OF ENTRANCE TO SECTOR V

VIEW OF GUEST HOUSE FROM CENTRAL GREEN AREA

Classification of Houses All houses are 3 bedroom duplexes. The types are classified on basis of location and size of the

garden provided. They are in ascending order of size of green area as given:

› A1, A2, A3› B (corner blocks)› C (corner blocks)› D1, D2, D3› E› F1, F2

In a standard cluster of 16, the ratio is:› A1A2:A3:B:C:D1:D2:D3 = 2:3:1:3:3:2:2

The ratio given above varies and so do the types in the cluster.

Typical ClusterGround Floor

TYPICAL CLUSTER FIRST FLOOR

Each house is directly connected to the public roads at one end and to the community back-garden at the other.

Entrance to these back-gardens is possible only at certain gate-way entrances - at which are located public amenities (kindergartens, community centres, etc) to provide easy and informal control.

VIEW OF CLUSTER

Features

Grid iron pattern road development. Area divided into sectors. School, club, community centre located

at Sector V the largest sector. Buildings are strictly G+1 structures. Green areas on the inside, roads on the

outside. Walking distances vary from 20-200m. Population density : 0.8 person /m2

AREA in m.sq. Percentage

SITE AREA 360000

Total road area 22000 6.11%

Single cluster area 1936m2 .53%

Court area single cluster 400m2 .11%

Built up area single cluster

1536m2 .42%

No. of Clusters 63

Common activities 1000 .27%

Total cluster area 121968 33%(green area included)

Residential use area in all clusters

96768 26%(excluding green area)

Green area in clusters 25200 7%

Central Green area 4000 1.11%

Total green area 57200 15.8%

Total built up area 97746 27%

Analysis

RECOMMENDED ACTUAL

Residential use 50-55% 26%

Commercial use 2-5% .3%

Industrial use 10-12% nil

Public and Semi-public 8-10% 15%

Open spaces 10-15% 16%

Communication 15-18% 7%

Others 5% approx. nil