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Kanchanjunga Apartments Overview

This document summarizes the Kanchanjunga apartment building in Mumbai. It is a 27-floor, 84-meter tall residential building constructed between 1970 and 1983. The building orientation and design incorporates features from traditional Indian homes to address the hot, humid climate, including large verandas and terraces around each apartment that act as buffer zones to keep out sun and allow sea breezes. The building contains 32 apartments of varying sizes, all with open terraces and partially covered sitting areas.

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Kanchanjunga Apartments Overview

This document summarizes the Kanchanjunga apartment building in Mumbai. It is a 27-floor, 84-meter tall residential building constructed between 1970 and 1983. The building orientation and design incorporates features from traditional Indian homes to address the hot, humid climate, including large verandas and terraces around each apartment that act as buffer zones to keep out sun and allow sea breezes. The building contains 32 apartments of varying sizes, all with open terraces and partially covered sitting areas.

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KANCHANJUNGA

APARTMENTS
● Structure type- High rise building
● Construction began- 1970
● Construction complected- 1983
● Height- 84 metres
● No. of floors- 27
● Function- Residential building
● Location- Kumballa hills, Mumbai
● Climate- Hot and humid
Site plan

Entrance
● This building has to be oriented east – west to catch prevailing sea
breezes & to open up the best view of the city.
● Unfortunately these are also the directions of the hot sun & the
heavy monsoon rains. The old bungalows solved these problems
by wrapping a protective layer of verandas around the main living
area.
● The building is a square in plan, 21mx21m, and 85m high.
● This building has 32 different apartments with 4 types of flats
varying from 3 to 6 bedrooms.
● Along east and west faces, each apartment is protected by a zone
of verandahs and bathrooms.
● Every unit has an open to sky terrace of 10m partially protected by
a pergola for sitting out during the mornings and evenings, and for
sleeping out at night.
The various types
of houses
Elevations
● First of all central core was created of
reinforced concrete so that it could be
used to support the shuttering of outer
walls.
● The facade was built after the core and
also made of reinforced concrete.
Garden
(buffer zone)

This was the concept of


verranandha used in
individual housing on both
front and back of the
house.

Great transparency has been achieved by the use large openings and terrace
garden on every floor.
The concept of this buffer zone is to keep out the sun and take in the cool sea
breeze.
● The garden terraces of
Kanchanjunga apartments are
actually a modern interpretation
of one of the feature of the
traditional indian bungalow,
Verandah.
● Red and yellow colours are
predominantly used in the
verandah.
● In India and other asian
countries, one finds a
predominance of reds and
yellow.
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