TARA HOUSING GROUP,NEW DELHI -CASESTUDY

1. Sonali Shah
16-ARV-26
20TH February 2020
Location :New Delhi, India
Constructed in : 1975-1978
Site:1.48 Ha
Program: Social housing with
160 units of two and three
bedrooms flats(MIG)
Client: Tara House Society
Architect: Charles Correa
Structure: reinforced concrete
Wall : brick
TA R A H O U S I N G G RO UP
C H A R R L E S C H O R E A
T A R A H O U S I N G G R O U P - c a s e s t u d y
Tara apartments is one kind of social
projects that is indented for the middle-
class of Nehru centre. This building is
designed by Charles chorrea and
completed in 1978.
Tara housing group has 160 units
and 375 persons per hectare. The Tara
pays deeply attention to the inner
activated such as central garden and
leave the interaction of traffic behind a
wall which is parallel to guru ravidas
Marg street(the south-east.
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 harmonious and
balance volume with the existing fabric
due to limited height and form of
building .project also pay an important
part in linking these other building with
the adjacent park.
EVALUATION: The building turns its
back on the street to prevent noise, dust
from the high flow vehicle, being staked
as a row, central garden, big overhangs
and sharp edges all give these building
a sense of Indian characteristic under
hot sun, full of light without suffering
from high temperature.
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The Concept
Legends
1. Connecting bridge
2. Scooter parking
3. Guard room
4.Road
5.Lawn
6..Seats
7. Planters
8. Amphitheatre
9.play area
10. Entrance
The main concept in Tara housing group project is a creative
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 building preserves well the private life of families
within. More than that, just pedestrians are allowed go inside
the housing group and the parking lot is in the back of the
building.
In term of a social housing group, the project takes big
advantages from natural resources like lighting and ventilation
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.
Spatial Organisation
The dwelling units are arranged similar to that of row houses, of
which the central street is developed as multifunctional
landscape spine serving as a major circulation area, community
space, children's play area and visual green affecting the micro-
climate
The two longitudinal parallel decks are surrounded by one
space on one side and enclosed by visual green on the other
side .the spaces are segregated with respect to various activities
and organized in response to the built form.
Overall Master Planning
The site has five major zones; the built
dwelling units aligned north south, peripheral
parking area along north-west and north
boundary walls, enclosed community space,
children's play area on south-east.
The services, water tanks and power house
are concealed in the 3m level difference of
site contours and are visually enhanced as a
feature by landscaping.
This organization is functional; due to lack of
active usage along the south-east and south
periphery the areas leave an impression of
left out spaces. The central space
overlooked by dwelling units make the
space for usable. The deliberate isolation of
the car parking reduces the luxury and
supervision.
Legends
1. Entry
2. Guard room
3. Scooter
parking
4. Housing
blocks
5. Seats
6. Amphitheatre
7. Lawns
8. Planters
9. Children’s
play area
10. Swimming
pool
11. Changing
room
12. Covered
seating
13. Service entry
14. Structure on
silts
15. Car parking
16. Pergola on
parking area
The open spaces are derived from configuration of horizontal and
vertical base planes and the characters is defined by sense of
enclosure and texture.
There is hierarchy of open spaces due to the alteration in the
planes n response to the climatic conditions and to achieve the
desired visual character.
Open space system
Private space
The extension of living area into the green spaces in the ground
floor and the partially shaded 10sqm terraces spaces open onto
visual greens and are not connected to active greens, hence the
privacy is retained.
Public space
The open staircases and their landing are interactive zones. The
central spine is an active enclosed space which turns semi open
space with presence of large green trees houses an oat,
children’s play area, green pocket. The soft cape on the south
east is bounded and buffered by peripheral plantation
Orientation and Micro Climate
The N-S orientation of the narrow built-up provides thermal
comfort to the users in central community space and also
provides winter sun to the the individual terraces and central
spine.
Majority of the private open spaces on the SE get optimum sun in
the morning and afternoon during winters.
The majority of the surface and hard surface which absorbs and
reflects the solar radiation and radiates heat later.
This is neutralized by the wind funnel created by the
comparatively smaller openings on NW and large double height
multifunctional hall on SE and green pockets in the central spine
The interlocking of the two longitudinal staggered decks provide
mutual shading and provides thermal comfort to the users in the
central spine.
3d-views

2. Description: The dwellings are grouped into some
small and medium blocks. Some blocks are
assembled only by two-bedroom flat, some are
combined between two-bedroom type and three-
bedroom type. It creates the diversity of form but
still maintains the logic of dwellings functions.
However, there are just 16 three-bedroom flats so
that it is not sufficient for families which have more
than 4 members.
3 Metre wide
and 15 metre long
Ground Floor
Two-bedroom type
Combination
The duplex units are accessed either at
ground floor or second floor levels by
outdoor staircases.
There are two kinds of flats
1. two bedroom flats with 84sq.m (3m
wide ,6 m high with two floors and
15m long)
2. three bedroom flats with 130 sq. and
have the shape of L-they are only 16
units-
Each unit is provided an open terrace
which is protected by a pergola and
big overhangs.
Two sides of the projects are
connected by staircase.
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 filled shadow.
By taking advantages of sun, wind
direction and open spaces, hence
lighting access and ventilation to each
dwelling are maximized.
BUILDING
Two-bedroom flat
Three-bedroom flat
parking lot and lighting
accessibility
Natural ventilation
DWELLING
The complex is formed due to
the combination between pairs
of
accommodation units.
The second floor which is larger
than the ground one with a big
overhang that rises further
ap_x0002_proximately 6 metres
gives the
mixture between shadow and
light. More than that, the duplex
above is also push back hence
front of the below one is
pro_x0002_tected too. In that
way, the whole
central garden is full filled with
shadow.
SITE EVALUATION
car circulation slow road network main street entrance
Inverse fig. ground gradient public(light) porosity
private(dark)
Three bedroom type and
combination
Two bedroom type
three bedroom type
DWELLING TYPOLOGY
CONCULSION
 The development is a schematic of traditional urban form. This
part-I derives specifically from the climatologically rational of
the narrow over hung streets.
 An introvert street configuration is created. This was
derived,ostensibly,to shelter a humid green zone with in the
development. It is terraced to fit topographic profile.
 The position and character of various spaces make them
multi-functional and the juxtaposition of these open spaces
give user the flexibility of using the spaces as a whole.
Sonali Shah
16-ARV-26
20TH February 2020 T A R A H O U S I N G G R O U P - c a s e s t u d y
BUILDING MATERIAL AND FINISHES
The usually refined exposed brick and concrete construction reflects the
architect’s prevailing commitment to the modernist idiom. The concrete pergola
accentuates the jagged break down of the building surface rather than forming an
effective continuous parasol.