TARA APARTMENT
• Tara Apartment is a group housing
project commissioned by Tara
Cooperative Society, the first housing
project in Delhi.
• The concept was introduced to
rehabilitate the 1947 partition affected
people who had nowhere to settle down
after their retirement from their
professional lives.
• The famous architect Charles Correa
was roped in to design a unique
architectural concept.
• Tara housing group has more than 125
units and 375 persons per hectare.
• The Tara pays deeply attention to the •Location: New Delhi, India.
inner activities which are almost happen •The project is located along
in the central garden and leave the Guru Ravidas Marg Street which
interaction of traffic behind a wall. leads to two big residential
areas in the North and the
South.
•The building turns its back on the street
to prevent noise, dust from the high flow
vehicles.
•Being staked as a row, central garden, big
overhangs and sharp edges, all give these
buildings a sense of Indian characteristic
under hot sun, full of light without
suffering from high temperature.
• The duplex units are accessed
either at ground floor or second
floor levels by outdoor stair cases.
• Two kinds of flat: two-bedroom
flats- 84 sq. m(3 m wide, 6 m high
with two floors and 15 m long,
three-bedroom flats -130 sq. m.
• Each unit is provided an open
terrace which is protected by a
pergola and big overhangs.
• Two sides of the project are
connected by staircases.
• A creative vernacular typology in terms of arranging and piling the singular flat into united
blocks.
• They provide 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.
• The concept of building
allows people to access
directly to the interior
garden.
• Everyone also has their
own open-to- sky terraces
with full filled shadow.
• By taking advantages of
sun, wind directions and
open spaces, hence
lighting access and
ventilation to each
dwelling are maximized.
• The complex is formed due to
the combination between pairs
of accommodation units.
• The second floor which is larger
than the ground one with a big
overhang that rises further
approximately 6 m gives the
mixture between shadow and
light.
• The duplex above is also push
back hence front of the below
one is protected too.
• In that way, the whole central
garden is full filled with
shadow.
• THREE BEDROOM TYPE:
Flat a’s ground floor
plan flat b’s ground
floor plan flat a’s
second floor plan flat
b’s second floor plan
• In the shape of “L”, this
type seems to be
difficult to attach in the
middle of a cluster and
all of them are located
in the outer-most.
• By separating the outside world and providing an interior garden, the building preserves the private life of families within.
• Only pedestrians are allowed to enter the housing group and the parking lot features in the back of the building.
• The project takes big advantages from natural resources like lighting and ventilation and all families share these features
equally.
• Indian architectural elements are illustratred with the use of concrete bands ,panels of exposed brick, portals , overhangs
and shape edges.
