SAMAY - THE MONOGRAPH OF TIME Affordable Housing

BIRLA UTTAM ARCHITECTS - 2018

A STEP BACKWARDS
Almost in every city in India, homeless citizens have remained more or
less completely neglected by local and state governments. Over the
past decades, governments have rarely provided to them even min-
imal essential services necessary for basic survival, such as shelters, to
ensure that they do not have to sleep rough under the open sky.

Hunger, deprivation and exclusion of homeless persons occur in almost

every city of India. Unclaimed corpses, especially during winter, bear
silent testimony to the saga of homelessness and exclusion. It is a life of
destitution, combined with hunger, intense social devaluation and ex-
treme vulnerability. Hence there is an utmost need for affordable hous-
ing in India.

WHY SAMAY?
“Samay” stands for time, which could be considered as another di-
mension hence inculcating this in architecture can make building 4D a
step up from 3D.
When we talk about the economically weaker class and low Income
group the most precious thing they have is time as it is the time they
trade for their living and hence it is of utter importance for them.
The monograph of time means we have detailed out the various activ-
ities of them according to time, also to merge building with the context
of Jaipur we have used elements of various historical buildings as well
as contemporary structure hence playing with the timeline of Jaipur
and hence again detailing out the time.

SUBMITTED BY
DINESH DHAKA
GAURAV BHANDARI
UTKARSH KUMAWAT
MALVIYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
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COMMUNITY FLOORS GREEN TERRACE STEPPED BUILT FORM COURTYARD PLANNING

COURTYARD PLANNING STEPPED MASSING

As Jaipur has a vast heritage, in which havelies are Choosing this concept has various reasons firstly
considered to be one of the first community liv- this provides a visual movement to eyes, hence
ing space with excellent climatic response hence making building façade interesting and creating
keeping in mind the context of Jaipur we planned an eye bouncing phenomenon which creates a
the site accordingly. different perception other than simple static and
bulky façade.
The form is inspired from step wells as well as na-
ture itself like mountains this ensures that user will
5 R CONCEPT feel closer to nature and culture and making it a
better place for community.
• Refuse – to blindly adopt international trends,
Also choosing this façade helps us to create many
materials, technologies, products, etc. Especially
open and green spaces at various levels also
in areas where local substitutes/equivalents are
mechanism of maintaining this could be easy as
available
the tank from highest terrace could be used and
• Reduce – the dependence on high energy
rest gravity would do its work hence quite cost ef-
products, systems, processes, etc.
fective.
• Reuse – materials, products, traditional tech-
nologies, so as to reduce the costs incurred in de-
signing buildings as well as in operating them
• Recycle – all possible wastes generated from
the building site, during construction, operation
and demolition COMMUNITY FLOOR
Recycled Steel, recycled Wood/Plastic Compos-
ite Lumber – for playground and landscaping.
• Reinvent – engineering systems, designs, and
practices such that India creates global exam-
ples that the world can follow rather than
Us following international examples.

COMMUNITY SPACES AS
REMINISCENCE OF TIME
As the building is a mix of contemporary and ar-
chaic architecture we chose to make communi-
ty area and landscaping in a archaic style using
various elements from old heritage buildings from
Jaipur.
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Green Area Built-up Area Ground Coverage Building Footprint

GREEN AREA E.W.S. E.W.S. BLOCK - A (E.W.S.)

SITE AREA L.I.G. L.I.G. BLOCK - B (L.I.G.)
ACCESIBLE OPEN ARE BLOCK - C (MIX)
COMMUNITY AREA & DISPENSARY
SHOPS AND Guard ROOM

CALCULATIONS
It is not always true that higher FAR can help in creating a higher quan-
tity of housing. Sometimes increased FAR has led to creation of vacant,
speculative, luxury housing, with no relation to the social needs and
poverty. As such the Floor Area Ratio has to be seen in combination with
plot coverage, density and housing form which involves a balanced
trade - between open and built-up spaces.

NO. OF UNITS = DWELLING DENSITY X HECTARE X PERCENTAGE OF BUILT-UP

EWS = 500 X 3.8X0.4 = 760 DWELLING UNITS

LIG = 300*3.8*0.6 = 684 DWELLING UNITS

• Number of floors varies from 9 floors to 15 floors.

• Maximum no. of floors was decided in accordance to Jaipur’s soil
bearing capacity as well as cost of construction.
• More than 100% of open area achieved.
• Building footprint is 20% hence giving good space for ground parking
and landscaping.
FORM EVOLUTION AND ZONING

SITE BUILDING MASS FOOTPRINT PARKING LAYOUT

BUILDING FOOTPRINT - BLOCKS AND PARKING FLAT BUILDING MASS STEPPED BUILDING MASS

SOLAR PANELS TERRACE GREEN SPACES LANDSCAPE AND ROAD NETWORK E.W.S. FLATS L.I.G. FLATS
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DESIGN FEATURES
CONTEMPORARY AND TRADITIONAL
ARCHITECTURE
The building and the landscape shows contrast
between them. Building being inspired from con-
temporary architecture and the landscape from
traditional “char-bagh” concept. Creating open
spaces for children to play and social activities to

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happen is one of the design considerations.

ELEMINATING ENCROACHMENTS:
Stilt floors can possibly be a space for encroach-
ment by the users. Henceby providing open park-
ing eradicates chance on encroachments.

COMMUNITY CUM ECONOMIC ACTIVITY FLOOR:

Since E.W.S. and L.I.G. people have all day around
activity going in their homes some do sewing, food
manufacturing and many other small scale work
hence an area for that so that their routine is not
affected and hence they feel homely in this hous-
ing facility.

HANGING GREEN TERRACES AT DIFFERENT LEVELS:

Apart from the use as green space this would
make inhabitants feel closer to ground irrespec-
tive of which floor they live in.

RAINWATER HARVESTING
The harvesting of rainwater simply involves the
collection of water from surfaces on which rain
falls, and subsequently storing this water for later
use. which is essential as nowadays saving water
is of utmost importance.

SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT

Its aim is to produce an environmentally safe
sewage water, called effluent, and a solid waste,
called sludge or biosolids, suitable for disposal or
reuse.

SOLAR PANELS
Solar power is arguably the cleanest, most relia-

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ble form of renewable energy available, and it
can be used in several forms to help power your
home or business. SITE PLAN
USE OF PRE-CAST CONSTRUCTION: RAIN WATER HARVESTING PLANT
Using pre cast construction reduces construction SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANT
cost upto 20%.
Construction with precast concrete is sustainable,
economical, high quality and earthquake-resist-
ant.
Thus, the only definite solution providing afforda-
ble mass housing, particularly for EWS & LIG
categories, is to adopt tried, tested and proven
prefab system.

FRONT ELEVATION
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E.W.S. UNIT L.I.G. UNIT

Carpet area – 293 SQ.FT
Carpet area – 472 SQ.FT
Built up-333 SQ.FT
Built up-526 SQ.FT
BUILT-UP TO CARPET AREA RATIO :
BUILT-UP TO CARPET AREA RATIO :
1.136
1.114

Being aesthetically appealing, the flats are also designed with maximum effiecien-
cy in space utilization according to anthropometry. For maximum effciency, de-
sired Built-up to carpet Area Ratio should be less than 1.15

The closet and bath are separated in EWS units so that can be used at the same
time by different users. For LIG units, two separate bathrooms are provided.

Getting balcony at opposite end of living room enhances the space quality and
gives a visual experience of a comfortable space.

Placing balcony opposite to main entry door also helps in increasing cross-ventila- BLOCK - A (E.W.S.)
tion.

Washing area cum balcony is provided in both LIG and EWS units in nearby vicinity
to washroom as well as kitchen.

Large window size ensures maximum daylight and reduces on electricity load.

The concept of stepping form is followed in clustering of units.

BLOCK - B (L.I.G..)

BLOCK C - SECTION BLOCK - C ( MIX )

SECTION THROUGH XX’ - PART A

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VIEWS AND VISTAS

Use of energy efficiency materials which

consume less energy like concrete block
in place of burnt brick.

Using environmental friendly materials

which are substitute for conventional build-
ing components like use of R.C.C. Door
and window frames in place of wooden
frames.

Preplanning every component of a house

and rationalizing the design procedure for
reducing the size of the components in
the building is also an important intuitive
change.

SUBMITTED BY
DINESH DHAKA
GAURAV BHANDARI SECTION THROUGH XX’ - PART B
UTKARSH KUMAWAT
MALVIYA NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY