Kanchan junga apaartments

KANCHENJUNGA APARTMENT
MUMBAI,INDIA
-CHARLES CORREA
ROHANM JOSHI
1OQ19AT029
ADIV

KANCHENJUNGA APARTMENT
MUMBAI,INDIA
 Architect : Charles Correa Associates
 Structural Engineer : Shirish Patel
 Location : Mumbai , India
 Floors : 27
 Apartments : 32 luxury apartments /4 types /(3-6 bedrooms )
 Date : 1970-83
 Building Type : Skyscraper
 Construction System : Concrete
 Climate : Hot
 Architectural Style : Modern , Brutalism

Location:
• It is located in the Mumbai
India
• Bombay lies in the western
cost of India and its major
commercial Centre for the
country
• The apartments are located
south west of downtown
Mumbai in an upscale
suburban setting

About an architect
 Indian Architect, Urban
Planner and an activist
 Born : September 1 , 1930
 Famous projects : Jawahar
kala Kendra, national crafts
museum , Bharat Bhavan

Approach
• The site has a
separate road
for individual
approach
which is
connected to
the main road .
• Building is
approachable
from two
opposite sides
, One from
east and one
from west

About
 The kanchanjunga Apartments
is a direct response to present
culture, the escalating
urbanization and climatic
conditions for the region
 They pay homage to the
vernacular architecture that
once stood on the site before
the development in no of ways.

Concept
 He mainly worked on the sectional displacement by bringig the changes In the floor
surfaces
 He applied cellular planning by using interlocks in one and half story 3 and 4 bedroom
units with two and half story 5-6 bedroom units .
 Small displacement in levels differentiated the external earth filled terraces with
internal elevated living volumes

Orientation and organization of
spaces

Development
 The shaping of the towers
 The building is a square tower Charles Correra created a gaps in that
tower
 The two floors high loggias are created to keep out the sun and take in
the cool sea breeze

• Combination of all the types forms the very creative building with an
opening for an excellent ventilation

 Charles correa designed a
concept which refers in the
unite D habitation of Le
Corb used horizontal
corridors
 Correa created a tower with
only 2 apartments on each
other on each floor. He
used a central vertical core
for the opening up

Structural Overview
 It is made from reinforced
concrete
 32 stories high with 6.3m
cantilevered terrace garden
 Central core of 7.8x6.9 m
house the lifts and the
service areas.
 This central core also acts
as a main structural
element in resting lateral
loads
 Central core was constant
ahead of the main structure
using slip method of
construction.

Materials And Colour
 With its concrete construction
and a large areas of white
panels it bears a strong
resemblance to modern
apartment buildings in the west
 However the garden terraces of
Kanchenjunga apartments are
actually a modern interpretation
of a feature of the traditional
Indian bungalow : the veranda
 In a bungalow , the veranda
wraps the main living area.
 The colour expert says the
quality of sunlight, climate and
culture influence colour choices :
hence one would observe a
preference a for blue and its
shades in west while in India and
other Asian countries one finds a
pre dominance of reds and
yellows
White panels and
concrete
construction , bears
a strong
resemblance to a
modern building
while the terrace
garden gives a look
of that of a
traditional bungalow.
Overlooking the city
from garden terrace

Thank you
ROHAN M JOSHI
IV TH SEM 2nd YEAR
TOSA

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