This housing project located in Ahmedabad, India accommodates three different income groups on three separate floors of a pyramidal shaped housing block through reverse stacking. It provides equitable distribution of spaces for low, middle, and high income groups while also incorporating shared community spaces like a central green space. Each unit is allowed flexibility for inhabitants to modify internal spaces over time to meet changing needs, while maintaining the overall building form.

1. ARCHITECTURAL
DESIGN
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NAME – POOJA AMIN
ROLL NO - 18006

2. Housing For All
Doshi has constantly addressed various
income groups and social structures through
design. India is the largest democracy in the
world with immense social diversity and the
design of this scheme made an equitable
distribution of spaces without compromising
on providing community spaces for 3
different income groups.
Form And Planning
● All the 3 income groups are
accommodated on 3 separate floors,
thus making the housing block
pyramidal shaped.
● It has reverse stacking which provides
the topmost situated unit with a
room and kitchen, a lavish terrace
and the lowest unit with a verandah.
● In addition to these, there is a shared
green space right at the center which
is accessible to all residents and offers
space for children to play.
● All the units are approached using an
exterior central staircase.
● This creates dynamic visual
compositions for the viewers and
people passing by the streets.
● Even in elevation, the building has a
graceful symmetry which reinforces
the idea of equitable design and
modernism of thought.
Area distribution:
● The ground floor units are about 1800 sq. ft which cost approximately 70-80 lakhs.
● The first-floor units are 1080 sq. ft. in area which cost approximately 50 lakhs.
● The second-floor units are 675 sq. ft. in area which again cost approximately 70-80 lakhs
Space Appropriation And
Ephemerality
● One of the most important things to
learn from India’s diverse community
is the transformation of spaces.
● A space that allows itself to
reappropriate based on all the
nuances of life. This ephemerality
ensured social interaction and not just
that, but gave room for incremental
growth.
● This phenomenally addressed
dimension of ‘time’ using design and
space planning.
● Spatial modifications are allowed to
occur internally, however, the
effective form remains untouched.
● Over time inhabitants have
accommodated their needs by adding
overhangs, roofs, windows and
certain rooms which have contributed
to their sense of belongingness and
dignity.
PROJECT DETAILS:
Location: Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India
Project duration: 1973-1976
Area: 4 hectares
No. of plots: 54
No. of units: 324
This project is based on the belief that users were capable of
generating their habitats. All they needed was a well-
designed template, which aided as an initial point for
incremental development. It is now a dense and diverse
settlement. The primary concept behind the dwelling units
gives the flexibility of changes, even having the same format.
Each unit, dwelling, floor, house, and element are unique in
their way. Each house is personalizing according to the
requirements and necessities of the user.
Life Insurance
Corporation Housing
by Ar. B.V Doshi
CASE STUDY 1

3. SUBLIME ORDINARINESS HOUSING PROJECT
The housing project is located about 60 km to the north east of
Mumbai which houses 54 families of staff working in the
industrial facility of a color coating plant for a large corporate
group. Family, relatives, and community play a critical role in
Indian society. The housing has been designed keeping these
socio-cultural realities in mind.
Project
:
Location
Architects Area
Year
Sublimeordinariness housing
project Vasind, India DCOOP
3900m²
2016
CASE STUDY 2
SITE PLAN ANDIDEOLOGIES
Using the Mumbai chawl as a
reference to organize the
spaces, we saw it as a
typology with the
tremendous possibility of
being a social catalyst. Four
apartments of 540 sq.ft. each
is strung along a corridor
space. At the end of which
sits the staircase.

4. Income groups Income level
EWS (Economical weaker
section)
< 1.5 lakhs per annum
LIG (Low Income Group) < 1.5-3 lakhs per annum
MIG (Middle Income Groups) < 3-10 lakhs per annum
97%
3%
demand
supply
89%
11%
Supply
demand
99%
1%
Supply
demand
EWS LIG MIG MIXED HOUING
COMMUNITY CENTRIC CLOSE KNIT
SMALL SCALE INDUSTRIES/CRAFTS
OPEN OR SEMI OPEN SPACES
COURTAYARD/CLUSTERS
CLOSE TO GRPOND
COMMUNITY ORRIENTED
PREFERENCE TO PRIVACY
SMALL SCALE MANUFACTURING & SALES
OPPEN OR SEMI OPEN SPACES
COMMON TERRACES
PRIAVTE BALCONIES
INDIVIDUALISTIC
HIGH PRIVACY
MOSTLY SERVICE SECTOR JOBS
PRIVATE TERRACES/
BALCONIES
PUBLIC SPACES- GREEN SPACES
VARIETY OF SPACES OFFERING
PLACE FOR DIFFERENT ACTIVITES
BY DIFFERENT GROUPS AS DESIRABLE
CLUSTERED COURTS
COMMUNITY TERRACES
PRIVATE BALCONES
NATURE OF ACTIVITIES
LIVELIHOOD
PIE CHART FOR
SUPPLU AND DEMAND
DESIGNED TYPOLOGY
DESIRABLE SPACES
“THE MEANING OF LIFESTYLE CHANGES WITH EACH INCOME GROUP”
10%
90%
Supply
demand

5. IDENTITY
INCOME
GENERATION
INCREMENTALITY
CONCERN SHAPE
GRAMMARS
SELF-CONTAINED
LIVING
ENVIRONMENT
Incremental architectures focus on
the way your users actually work,
so are ideal for Agile, user-story-
based planning.
In simple words, the incremental
design is to split
the design problem into small
problems and work on these
problems one by one, while
making improvements in the
solutions by getting feedback from
the customer. ... designers usually
look at the bigger picture of the
problem.
Shape grammar is one type of generative
grammars which deals with points, lines,
shapes and solids instead of characters. In
shape grammars, new shapes can be
created by an initial shape, shape
elements and production rules [3]. So
basically it focuses on the shapes and the
production rules with which the shapes
come together
FORM DENSITY ENVIRONMENT
P E O P L E O R I E N TAT I O N
O P E N I N G S
CONNECT HORIZONTAL VERTICAL
C O R R I D O R S S TA I R C A S E
S T R E E T E L E V AT O R S
ACTIVITY PUBLIC PRIVATE
C O U R T R A D S B E D R O O M
C H O W K S T O I L E T
O T L A S
CONCERN :
Loss Of Community Life
That can be improved by
Social
gathering
Activity
pocket
Amenity
spaces
ARCHITECTURAL INTERVENTION
Qualitative
• Better community spaces
• Better scale of built v/s
open (human scale)
• Better quality of living
• Pedestrian streets
Quantitative
• Low cost of construction
affordability for user
• Faster return
• Low carbon emission
• Use of less resources

6. MENTAL
HEALTH
PHYSICAL
HEALTH
WELLBEING
HOW IT EFFECTS HEALTH
ELEMENTS OF HOUSING
SECURITY
NEIGHBORHOODS
SHELTER
ABILITY OF
HOUSING TO MEET
HOUSEHOLD NEEDS
SUITABILITY OF
HOUSING FOR
DIFFERENT HOUSEHOLD
PRACTICES
HOUSING
TYPE
Security of tenure
Affordability
Neighborhood quality
Location: accessibility and proximity
Indoor temperature
Adequate food storage
Facitilate independence for
ageing pops
Dampness
Residents with
disabilities
Overcrowding
Boarding houses(homelessness)
Density
Apartments

7. SHIVAJI CHOWK
• It is located at the South side of the site .
• It is an important landmark of Nerul, it has heavy traffic in peak
times(9am, 12 pm,4pm, 8pm)
• At times of events in cities also becomes an installation point.
MOVEMENT PATTERN
• The site is located at a prime junction.
• The site 4 roads:
• 2 roads are main roads connecting the mumbai-
pune highway.
• Other 2 roads are the peripheral roads.
• The road adjoining (access 1) to the site have
vehicular traffic during peak morning and
afternoon hours because of the school near the
site. But at the same point the road can be used for
major accessibility from the point of view of
security since the road is connected to the
mumbai-pune highway which makes it a busy road.
• Another adjoining road (access 2) also connects to
the mumbai-pune highway and palm beach road
and hence it can act as surveillance and security.
• The other access (access 3) is private so it can help
cut down the traffic coming from the main road.
• The road behind the site can be accessed (access 4)
but it can be used as a service road and can't be a
main access.
N
SURROUNDINGS
• Site is surrounded by educational
zone, industrial zone, recreational
spaces.
• The main impact on the site will be
traffic and noise since the site is
adjacent to a junction which has a
large number of user groups.
• Another impact can be the visual
impact because of height of the
buildings around the site.
USER GROUP
• The user group in the surrounding of the
site consists of students, workers,
markets, hospitals.
• Since the site has educational institutes
on one side our resident might be useful
for the students to stay in the resident.
• Considering educational complexes
there is a scope of providing retail areas
inside the site.
• The west side of the site consists of
residential areas which results in
security during night.
CITY FABRIC
• The surrounding residential buildings are either
unplanned settlements and government buildings.
• There is no parking provision which affects in
affected movements.
• The settlements are 2-3 storey structures provided
with projecting balconies.
• The government housing are g+3 structures with
small window openings.
• Use of light colors have been used for the buildings
which does not absorb heat during summers
resulting in keeping the building cool from inside.
ABOUT SITE
Nerul is a developed premium residential and
commercial node in Navi Mumbai.
Placed along Mumbai-Pune Highway, the locality
shares neighbourhood with Sanpada, Juinagar,
Kharghar, Seawoods and CBD Belapur.
It comprises a mix of horizontal and vertical
residential developments including low, mid and
high-rise apartments. Site is a flat land
By Rail
• Juinagar Railway Station.
• Nerul Railway Station.
• Sanpada Railway Station.
Local Bus
• Juinagar Sector-25 Bus Station
• Chincholi Talao (Nerul) Bus Station are the
nearby by Local Bus Stops to Sector 1
MAN MADE FEATURES.
NILGIRI GARDENS –
• It is an existing feature within the site , a garden for the vicinity .
• It is surrounded by a 35 m wide road west side and entrance is through the
30m road onto the South side .
By Auto-rickshaw
• Lp Auto-rickshaw stand 100M.
• Beside the garden
HOW TO REACH?
EDUCATIONAL
1
3
4
RESIDENTIAL
2
SITE ANALYSIS

8. S W O T A N A L Y S I S
STRATEGIES
ADDING2
MAIN GATESTO
AVOID TRAFFIC
ATMAIN ROAD.
ADDINGSOLAR
PANELS.
STEPPED
FORMATFOR
GOOD
VENTILATION.
ADDINGGREEN
SPACEAS
BUFFERZONE
BETWEENEACH
BUILDING.
NEGLECTING
ENTRYFROM
ORNEAR
CHOWK.
PROVIDETHIRD
ENTRY/SERVICE
ROADNEAR
NMMC
SCHOOL.
S
o NEARBY TRANSITAND
OPEN SPACES,
o NEAR HIGHWAY VIA MAIN
ROAD,
o EXISTING GARDEN,
o CHOWK ACTS AS A
LANDMARK
W
o LONGER WESTAND
EAST SIDE
o HIGHRAINFALL MAY
RESULT IN WATER
LOGGING AND SOME
DISEASES.
O
o IN FUTURE SITEMAY GET
FOR WEIGHTAGE BECAUSE
OF INCREASING
POPULATION.
o BETTER JOB OPPURTUNITIES
FOR LOW INCOME PEOPLE.
To CRIME VIA TAPRI
o PRIVACY INVASIONS
o AS THE SITE ISADJOINED BY MAIN
ROAD AND NEARBY SCHOOLS AND
COLLEGE CAMPUS,VISUAL AND,NOISE
PROBLEMS MAY DISTURBTHE SITE.

9. C O N C E P T :
ZONING
PLAYING WITH
BLOCKS
VEHICULARROAD
ALONGTHE
PERIPHERY
USING EXISTING
TREESAND
GARDEN
INTERCONNECTE
D HIERARCHY
GREENSPACES
GREENROOF
TERRACEAND
BALCONY
Interconnectingof squares.
Thesameblockis copiedand mirroried
on all four sides and formedasabuilding.
BUILDINGFORM:
People are now demanding terrace
gardens in apartments. Eg. Super-sized
terraces with large semi-open spaces that
can be used as sit-outs, private green
spaces or party areas are the latest fancy.
A typical green roof system comprises two
inches of sandy soil topped with the
pervious paver blocks, and overlain with a
uniform grass sod.
ADVANTAGES OF GREENTERRACE:
o Contribution to ecosystem
o Pleasant vibe in highlyurbanized
zones
o Help in mitigating climatechange
o Acts as bufferingzone
o Personal greenspaces
o Improves mentalhealth
C A L C U L A T I O N S :

10. SITE
PLAN
CLUBHOUSE

11. SECTION AA’
SITE SECTION
SECTION BB’
A
C
B
A’
B’
C’
SECTION CC’
KEY PLAN

12. B A S E M E N T P L A N :
CALCULATI ON :

14. BEDROOM
WASHROOM
LIVING ROOM
SECTION

15. 3D
ELEVATION
SECTION

16. SITE 3D VIEWS

19. SECTION

20. THANK YOU