Salient Feature of the Project

Name & Location : Brigade Courtyard, HMT Layout,
Cost of Project : (INR) 45 Crores
Built-up area : 2,60,000 sq.ft
(In case of Public Building minimum built-up area should be 1000 sq. meter)

Description of Project :

To fit 180+ apartments on a narrow 2 acre linear site and yet provide a sense of openness and connection to nature and light formed the basic requirement. The brief required the design to achieve the required built up area within a low-rise, G+3 scheme. Various density studies were explored to achieve this built up area. The maximum yield was obtained by arranging two wings of apartment blocks along the length of site, separated by a linear open space. At the narrowest parts of site, these two wings came close to each other and even a G+3 structure would have been overbearing, besides creating undesirable apartment facing proximities. This then birthed an architectural response using a section that stepped backwards as it rose, creating landscaped terraced buffers. This in tum generated various apartment terrace types.

The design challenge was how to effectively tackle the require4 dense nature of the project for the users, without compromising on the builders economic requirements. Each apartment unit is hence designed with its own landscaped terrace or sitout space. This series of varying landscaped terraces form a successful landscaped buffer between adjacent and opposite blocks ,thus making each apartment unit behave like an individual house in itself. The idea of private landscaped terrace and sitouts is achieved by means of interlock of apartment units, each one uniquely designed and positioned across this four storey complex. Once an apartment block was designed, minor iterations and juxtapositions made the conjoined series of blocks still present unique, seemingly non-repeating fagade runs. Thus a series of landscaped terraces are created, which tumble down to the larger central garden, which in turn responds to the existing reserve forest on the opposite side of the approach road.