Kanchenjunga Apartments is a 27-floor, luxury apartment skyscraper located in Mumbai, India designed by architect Charles Correa and completed between 1970-1983. The building contains 32 apartments of various sizes, from 3 to 6 bedrooms each, and was one of the first in India to use a slip form construction technique. Key design aspects include maximizing views, ventilation, and protection from sun and monsoon rains through the use of verandahs wrapped around the apartments.

1. Kanchenjunga Apartments
Aniruddh Jain
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B.Arch IV Year

2. Technical Data
• Apartments: 32 luxury apartments / 4 types / (3 to 6 bedrooms)
• Height (architectural) : 83.32!
• Floors: 27 !
• Construction System: Concrete!
• Architect: Charles Correa Associates!
• Structural engineer: Shirish Patel !
• Date: 1970 to 1983!
• Building Type: Skyscraper!
• Architectural Style: Modern, Brutalism

4. 450m

5. 83m
56m
47m
107m

10. Orientation
• Lot size: 5260sqm!
• Tower Footprint: 436sqm
• Climate: Hot Temperate!
• Street Address: 72 Peddar Road!
• Orientation: East‐West!
• 62.5% get view of harbour
& remaining of arabian sea

11. Ventilation & Daylight
• In Mumbai, a building has to be oriented east‐west to catch
prevailing sea breezes and to open up the best views of the
city. Unfortunately, these are also the directions of the hot sun
and the heavy monsoon rains.
• The old bungalows solved these problems by wrapping a
protective layer of verandas around the main living areas,
thus providing the occupants with two lines of defence
against the elements.

13. Vertical
Zoning
• Surface parking 20
• Basement Parking 30
• Clubhouse and Pool
• Entrance
• A B C D Typical apartments
• Elevators stop at alternate floors

14. Modularity
• Provided for all stratas of people
• Special Penthouse
• Special first apartment

24. Services
• Electrical
• Plumbing
• Storm Water Drainage
• Fire Systems

25. Lower 5BHK

26. Upper 5BHK

27. Structure
• RCC structure completely.
• 6.3 m Cantilever
• Slip form first time used in India
• Tube system with shear walls

28. Apartment Section
• N

30. Balconies
=
Verandahs

32. Colors of India

33. Balconies

34. Criticism
• Structural inapt for the ground.
• Water seepage from verandah
• Noise from Peddar Road

35. References
1974 'Apartments', Architecture Plus, New York - March, p. 26
1980 'Report from India: Current work of Correa', by H. Smith, Architectural Record, New York - July, pp. 88-89
1980 'Contemporary Asian Architecture', Process Architecture - 20, Tokyo - November, pp. 94-118
1982 'Open the Box', by Jim Murphy, Progressive Architecture, New York - October, pp. 100-104
1983 'Kanchanjunga Apartments', Architect, Melbourne - December, pp. 12-13
1985 'Charles Correa: Inspirations Indiennes', Techniques & Architecture, Paris - August, pp. 106-117
1985 'Edificio residenziale a torre a Bombay', by C. M. Pierdominici, Cemento, Rome - Oct., pp. 642-651
1991 'Espacos para a India', by C. Dibar/ D. Armando, Arqitectura Urbanisma, Buenos Aires, Dec., pp. 44-51
1999 'Cultural Motifs- Charles Correa' by Amy Liu, 'Space', Hong Kong, November, pgs 104-105 & 109-117 Books
1990 After the Masters, by Vikram Bhatt & Peter Scriver, Mapin, Ahmedabad, pp. 64 - 67
1999 Outside Architecture, by Susan Zevon, Rockport Publishers, Massachusetts, pp. 27 - 29
2000 World Architecture, A Critical Mosaic 1900-2000, Vol. 8, South Asia, Ed. Rahul Mehrotra,