This document provides details about a row housing project located in Domalguda, Hyderabad designed by architect B.V. Doshi in 1979. The project consists of 110 row houses arranged in terraced units with shared walls. Each unit is either a single bedroom house or a 2 bedroom house on a plot size of either 10x10 feet or 16x60 feet. The document describes the layout, design and features of one of the sample row houses visited, including its entrance, parking area, landscaping, floors, bedrooms, bathrooms, kitchen and other internal spaces.

1. ROW HOUSING
K. KRUTHI
P.MONIKA
M.SUSMITHA
P.MEDHA
M.ASHWINI
B.SWATHI

2. INTRODUCTION :
•A TERRACED HOUSE OR A TOWN
HOUSE IS A TERM IN ARCHITECTURE &
CITY PLANNING REF. TO A STYLE OF
MEDIUM DENSITY HOUSING.
•ORIGIN OF ROW HOUSING WAS IN
EUROPE ARROUND 16TH CENTURY.
•TOWN HOUSES GENERALLY ARE OF
TWO TO THREE STOREY HOUSES, WHERE
WE SEE COMMON WALL SHARED BY
NEIGHBOURING HOUSES.
•FIRST & LAST HOUSES IN A ROW ARE
SAID TO HAVE END TERRACES.
•MIDDLE HOUSES SAID TO HAVE MID
TERRACES .

3. CASE STUDY
LOCATION : DOMALGUDA
LIC HOUSING.
HYDERABAD.
ARCHITECT : BV DOSHI
PROJECT YR. : 1979
AREA : EACH HOUSE
AREA 16’X 60’ & 10’X10’
TOTAL NUMBER OF
HOUSES : 110
ROAD WIDTH : 5M

4. • SITE LOCATION ON MAP

5. LAYOUT PLAN

6. ROADS LEADING INTO THE LIC COLONY

7. ROW HOUSE UNIT
SITE PLAN OF THE ROW
HOUSE UNIT
•BUILT IN 1979 BY B.V DOSHI.
•THERE ARE 3 TYPES OF
HOUSES
•SINGLE BEDROOM HOUSE
WITH PLOT AREA OF 10’ X 10’
•2 BEDROOM HOUSE- 110
SQ.YARDS ( 16’ X 60’ )
•2 BEDROOM HOUSE WITH 16’
X 60’ PLOT SIZE AND NO SPLIT
LEVELS. N

8. •21 WAS THE PLOT
WHICH WE VISITED.
THE OWNER WAS THE
SECOND OWNER OF THE
HOUSE.
HE BOUGHT THE HOUSE
IN 1981.
ORIGINAL RATE WAS 1
LAKH 10 THOUSAND.
HE BOUGHT IT FOR 1.5
LAKHS.
NOW THE HOUSE
COULD BE SOLD FOR 1
CRORE NOW.

9. •A SMALL GATE
WELCOMES US INTO THIS
WARM HOUSE.
•SUFFICIENT PARKING FOR
A SINGLE CAR.
•12’X15’ IS THE MINIMUM
COMMON PARKING AREA.
•SMALL PARAPET WALLS,
INCREASING
INTERACTIONS BETWEEN
NEIGHBOURS.
•45 CM IS THE COMMON
PLINTH HEIGHT.
•ENTRANCE DOOR WIDTH
IS 1.2M.

10. LITTLE LANDSCAPE ALONG
THE WALL TO RIGHT SIDE.

11. •THEY HAVE A INCLINED
WALL CREATING A
PROJECTION AT THE
ENTRANCE.
•THIS PROJECTION KEEPS THE
HARSH CLIMATIC
CONDITIONS FROM
ENTERING THE HOUSE.
•A SQUARE WINDOW IS
GIVEN AT THE ENTRANCE.
THIS PROVIDES VENTILATION
TO THE HALL AS WELL AS
ENABLES THE HABITANTS TO
SEE WHO IS AT THE MAIN
DOOR.
•THEY HAD A COURTYARD
NOW USED AS A COMMON
SHAFT PLACED B/W BOTH
HOUSES.
•CROSS VENTILATIONN IS
SEEN.

12. LEFT SIDE WINDOW IS SEE
THROUGH ONE.

13. GROUND FLOOR
PLAN
•3 STEPS LEAD INTO THE FOYER
•THERE IS A HALL WITH STAIRS LEADING
TO BEDROOMS.
•FROM THE LIVING ROOM,THERE ARE 2
STEPS DOWN.
•THIS AREA IS AN OPEN DINING AREA.
•FROM THIS AREA,A PARTITION KIND OF
THING IS CREATED WITH A CUPBOARD.
•BEHIND THAT CUPBOARD IS A KITCHEN.
•THE KITCHEN HAS A BACK DOOR
LEADING INTO THE UTILITY AREA.
•THERE ARE SEPARATE BATHROOM AND
WASHROOM,WITH A WASHBASIN IN
BETWEEN..

14. •ENTRANCE
•THE ENTRANCE LEADS TO
HALL, WHICH IS A DOUBLE
HEIGHT SPACE.
•THERES A WINDOW
ABOVE THE ENTRANCE
DOOR.

15. AIR SHAFT SPACE
IT WAS A CENTRAL AND
COMMON COURTYARD
FOR ADJOINING HOUSES,
ACTING AS A AIR SHAFT.
REDUCED INTO A CLOSED
SPACE.

16. THE LIVING ROOM
•DOUBLE HEIGHT SPACE.
•A LONG WINDOW POURS
VENTILATION INTO THE
HOUSE.
•FROM THE LIVING ROOM,
THERE IS ACCESS TO
KITCHEN,UPSTAIRS,
WASHROOMS.

17. •THE DINNING AND
KITCHEN SPACE IS 2 STEPS
BELOW .
•EACH STEP HAS 15CM
RISER
•THERE IS SO MUCH OF
LIGHT COMING INTO THE
HOUSE .

18. LIGHT COMING ITNO THE
HOUSE..ABOVE THE
DINING AREA
WE CAN SEE THE STEPS
TOWARDS THE KITCHEN
AREA.
THERE IS A SMALL
STORAGE SPACE UNDER
THE STAIRCASE.
DOOR CAN BE SEEN IN THE
SECOND PICTURE.

19. •WC & BATH AREAS ARE
SEPARATED .
•THEY HAVE BEDROOM ON
EACH LANDING.
• A WASHBASIN SEPERATES
BOTH THE SERVICE AREAS.
•THIS ACTS AS AN
ADVANTAGE, AS THERE IS
NO DISTURBANCE
CREATED IN DIFFERENT
SERVICES USAGE.
•THE WASH BASIN IS
CLOSER TO THE DINING
AREA.

20. •KITCHEN INTERIOR
•KITCHEN IS AN OPEN OR
LIVE KITCHEN.
•THERE IS A CHIMNEY AND
A WINDOW NEAR TO THE
GAS STOVE.
•THE OWNERS HAVE
ARRANGED THE DINING
TABLE INTO THE KITCHEN
AREA.

21. POOJA SPACE
BETWEEN THE EXTENDED
LIVING SPACE AND
KITCHEN IS THE POOJA
SPACE.
A SMALL MANDAP
ADJOINING THE KITCHEN
WORK SPACE.

22. •UTILITY DOOR IN THE
KITCHEN AREA
MANY CUPBOARDS ARE
WALL MOUNTED.

23. FIRST FLOOR PLAN
•FIRST FLOOR HAS A
SINGLE BEDROOM, WITH A
COMMON BATHROOMS.
•THE BAHROOMS ARE
AGAIN SEPARATED INTO
DRY AND WET AREAS AS IN
GROUND FLOOR.
•THIS FLOOR SHOULD BE
CONSIDERED AS
MEZZANINE.
•THE BEDROOM IS
LOCATED ON THE 1ST
LANDING

24. STAIRCASE LEADING TO
UPPER FLOORS.
WE HAVE A BEDROOM ON
EVERY LANDING.

25. LESS IS MORE
•EVERY BEDROOM IS
SPACIOUS.
•A DOUBLE COT BED IN
EVERY BEDROOM
•CUPBOARDS PRESENT IN
EVERY ROOM
•LONG WINDOWS,
ALLOWS GOOD AMOUNT
OF LIGHT AND AIR.

26. CUTOUT SPACE
DIRECT LIGHTING FROM
ABOVE.

27. SECOND LANDING
•1 BEDROOM ON SECOND
LANDING

28. 1ST LANDING BEDROOM IS
SEEN.
ON LEFT WE HAVE THE
CUT OUT SPACE.

29. BEDROOM INTERIORS

30. BEDROOM

31. BEDROOM
SMALL WINDOW IN
BEDROOM. BUT HAVE
AMPLE OF LIGHTING.

32. THIRD BEDROOM
•THERE IS THIRD
BEDROOM, ON THE THIRD
LANDING.
•THIS BEDROOM HAS
ATTACHED BATHROOM.
•ADJACENT TO THE
BEDROOM IS THE TERRACE
DOOR

33. RIGHTSIDE DOOR IS
LEADING TO THE TERRACE

34. THIRD BEDROOM

35. STEPS LEADING TO
TERRACE
SMALL STORAGE SPACE
BEHIND THE TERRACE
DOOR

36. SERVICE DUCTS

37. THESE ARE WINDOWS
FROM WHICH LIGHT
ENTERS INTO THE HALL.

38. •ROW HOUSES IN
BETWEEN WERE HAVING
CONNECTED BALCONIES.
•UTILITY SPACES WERE
DIFFERENT FOR DIFFERENT
HOUSES.
•MOST OF THE HOUSES
ARE TRASFORMED INTO
MODERN HOMES.

43. FRONT ELEVATION