GSFC HOUSING
VADODARA, GUJARAT
Area: 140 Acre
Client: Gujarat State Fertilizers Corporation
Project Duration: 1964 - 1969
Group : Divyesh Parsana, Maitri Modi, Surbhi Ghiyar
Case-study : GSFC by B.V. Doshi
Context
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Case-study : GSFC by B.V. Doshi
• Site Area: 56 hectares Context
• Site Location : Baroda, Gujarat
• Client : GSFC, Baroda
• Project year : 1964-69
• Type : Mixed use housing
• Climate : Semi arid
• Context : Urban
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Group : Divyesh Parsana, Maitri Modi, Surbhi Ghiyar
Case-study : GSFC by B.V. Doshi
Grid
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Land Distribution and Utilization Built Foot Print Density
Total area : 56.6 ha. (140 acres) Once the residential and activity Marketable (plots, commercial,
Roads : 8.82 ha. (15.50%) structure of the township was amenities) : 18.92 ha. (33.39%)
Open spaces : 28.92 ha. (51.04%) determined, the next stage in the Non - marketable ( roads, openspasec )
Residential : 18.418 ha. (32.50%) decision making process involved the : 37.74 ha. (66.54%)
Public & Semi public : 0.506 ha. spatial organization of the township in
(0.89%) the proposed hierarchical order. The Gross Density : 18.89 units/ha.
overall land use and marketable areas Net Density : 33.50 units/ha.
reflect economics planning in the indian
context.
Group : Divyesh Parsana, Maitri Modi, Surbhi Ghiyar
Case-study : GSFC by B.V. Doshi
Street
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Road Junction Built Foot Print Road Pattern
At the township level, a grid pattern of Bridges and alleyways running between GSFC must be seen as a part of his
road network was broadly adopted, the houses as a netwrok of padestrian obession with the climatic and social
which had the advantage of generating routes independent of the vehicular features of the traditional courtyards and
a simple layout, regular building plots traffic. The alleyways affords vistas gates of old Indian towns.. Doshi has
and flexible traffic flow. The system of which are usually terminated within a been determined to break the monotony
road network followed a clear hierarchy few hundred feet, so the sense of so commonly found in new housing
in terms of width, based on the linkages enclosure is not entirely lost. projects in India and to reflect socio-
to various act ivies and the expected cultural patterns, climate and aesthetics,
volume to traffic. regardless of the economic status.
Group : Divyesh Parsana, Maitri Modi, Surbhi Ghiyar
Case-study : GSFC by B.V. Doshi
Common spaces
Layout option 1
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Use of common spaces
Natural devices are used to deal with the bad effects of sun or rain, and to encourage the flow of air. Standardisation in
concrete is combined with local methods and materials. Basic types are worked out which respond to the overlapping uses of
Indian life : sleeping terraces, steps, ledges, alleyways, all conceived as extensions of the house.
Group : Divyesh Parsana, Maitri Modi, Surbhi Ghiyar
Case-study : GSFC by B.V. Doshi
Climatic response
Layout option 1
Fig 16
Use of common spaces
Natural devices are used to deal with the bad effects of sun or rain, and to encourage the flow of air. Standardisation in
concrete is combined with local methods and materials. Basic types are worked out which respond to the overlapping uses of
Indian life : sleeping terraces, steps, ledges, alleyways, all conceived as extensions of the house.
Group : Divyesh Parsana, Maitri Modi, Surbhi Ghiyar
Case-study : GSFC by B.V. Doshi
Built-Form and Organization
Layout option 1
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Houses
Balconies provide opportunities for diverse behaviours: sleeping out on charpoys, parking motor scooters, chatting and doing light
industrial work. In particular, the territorial hierarchy of transitions from private space to public - from steps to ledges to the small street to
the square (chowk) is respected. The township is given a visual unity through the use of concrete combined with thick brick walls.
.
Group : Divyesh Parsana, Maitri Modi, Surbhi Ghiyar
Case-study : GSFC by B.V. Doshi
Services
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Decent modern accommodation was to Each family provided with a plot having a House types in the township reflect income
complement salaries as a lure for white- water tank, sewage connection, storm level and status. At the upper end are quiet
collar labour. Industrial townships like het water drainage. Septic tank provided for enclaves with villas looking into their own
for GSFC Vadodara had to be, in effect, every two cluster to economize. Around garden courts. Rear access courts, high
small communities with their own school, this were grouped some of the communal walls, and brick floor material insure a
shops and theatres. Doshi established a functions and a monumental water tower greater feeling of urban society.
pattern of diagonal roads converging on a which acted as a focal pont.
central green
Group : Divyesh Parsana, Maitri Modi, Surbhi Ghiyar
