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Tara Apartments-An Oasis in The Real Sense: Private Spaces Tara Group Housing, New Delhi (1978) by Charles Correa

The Tara Group Housing complex in New Delhi designed by Charles Correa provides an oasis for residents within the dense, noisy city. It features an introverted design that shields inhabitants from extreme heat, humidity, and pollution of the outside. A central green zone surrounded by housing units gives residents a sheltered community space and a unique atmosphere. The development takes a critical regionalist approach by balancing modern needs with regional sensibilities around climate and building methods. Its vernacular design arranges units into blocks with large overhangs, central gardens, and ample cross ventilation to provide thermal comfort while preserving family privacy.

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Tara Apartments-An Oasis in The Real Sense: Private Spaces Tara Group Housing, New Delhi (1978) by Charles Correa

The Tara Group Housing complex in New Delhi designed by Charles Correa provides an oasis for residents within the dense, noisy city. It features an introverted design that shields inhabitants from extreme heat, humidity, and pollution of the outside. A central green zone surrounded by housing units gives residents a sheltered community space and a unique atmosphere. The development takes a critical regionalist approach by balancing modern needs with regional sensibilities around climate and building methods. Its vernacular design arranges units into blocks with large overhangs, central gardens, and ample cross ventilation to provide thermal comfort while preserving family privacy.

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Tara apartments- an oasis in the real sense

Tara Group Housing, New Delhi (1978) by Charles Private spaces


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India used to have a traditional approach as far as residential settlements were concerned-
individual bungalows or stand-alone houses for affluent class people, and linear skeleton
housing for low-income groups. The complex turns its back to the street, virtually an oasis
within the endless, vast desert of high-volume Delhi traffic and noise and dust pollution. An
introvert street configuration was the need of the hour to protect the inhabitants from the
extreme heat and humidity. The central green zone gives the families a community space
sheltered from the outside extremities and provides the complex a unique, exclusive look and
feel.

Critical regionalism seeks to balance local needs and capabilities with the progressive lessons
of modernisation. Critical regionalism has been an influential architectural approach in
postcolonial Indian architecture. India had subconsciously begun pursuing the ideas of critical
regionalism in designing its buildings. Complex housing projects started getting developed
through the regionalist approach. Critical regionalist designs are sensitive to the local climate
as well as the technological constraints of the local building industry. The practitioners of
critical regionalism seek to integrate global architectural and technological developments with
regional sensibilities derived from spatial, cultural and historical contexts.

A creative vernacular typology in terms of arranging and piling the singular flat into united
blocks. Providing thermal relief to inhabitants during the harsh summer sun, with big
overhangs over the units and a central garden, allowing infiltration of ample light within the
units while preventing high temperatures and separating the outside world and providing an
interior garden, the building preserves the private life of families within.

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Bold openings introduce us into the mind of a Master whose simplistic approach to finding
contextual answers for urban issues, challenges our very own understanding of spaces. The
way one Hall leads us to a stepped-central courtyard impacts the way we perceive things
pushes us and at the same time defines the program with a form flawlessly. Sensitivity gives
character to an Architect's work. Capturing this feeling inbuilt form is a talent Correa
possessed.

The development is a schematic of traditional urban form. This part-derives specifically


from the climatologically rational of the narrow over hung streets. An introvert street
configuration is created. This was derivedshelter 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.

Site plan Axometric view


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