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Case Study Housing

The document provides details about staff housing designed by architect Balkrishna Doshi at the Atira Factory in Ahmedabad, India from 1957. The housing units were designed to be affordable using local materials like brick, with features like north-south orientation, verandas, and cross ventilation to minimize heat gain. Each simple unit consisted of a single room that could be divided, a rear court, and a toilet, organized around a shared drainage line. The vaulted brick roofs provided shelter while keeping costs low.

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Case Study Housing

The document provides details about staff housing designed by architect Balkrishna Doshi at the Atira Factory in Ahmedabad, India from 1957. The housing units were designed to be affordable using local materials like brick, with features like north-south orientation, verandas, and cross ventilation to minimize heat gain. Each simple unit consisted of a single room that could be divided, a rear court, and a toilet, organized around a shared drainage line. The vaulted brick roofs provided shelter while keeping costs low.

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  • Introduction
  • ATIRA Staff Quarters
  • Planning
  • Building Unit Design
  • Housing Units Layout
  • Interior and Exterior Housing
  • Construction Details
  • Housing Typologies
  • Conclusion

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

STUDIO
TOPIC : CASE STUDY ( ATIRA STAFF QUARTERS & HOUSING)

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ATIRA STAFF QUARTERS
• Atira and PRL Low-Cost Housing
• Ahmedabad, India. 1957
• Architect: Balkrishna Doshi
• The ATIRA factory and its homes are located in a green front area at the
Indian Institute of Management. It is a small complex that reveals many
similarities to Le Corbusier's projects.
• made of cheap local materials for natural ventilation
• The units were aligned north-south to minimise the hard effects of
afternoon sun, and verandhas were provided back and front: these
could be used for sleeping in the summer. 
•  Each house had its own garden. Vertical slots with pivoting doors
were included for cross ventilation
PLANNING
• Each dwelling is given a single room, divided by a
movable partition, with a court to the rear, and a toilet
beyond that. 
• Drains could then be conveniently located along a
single line between back to back courts
• Initial ideas is to use locals potters to make the vaults
but was forced to use brick which was more expensive;
in this instance no flat roofs were added to the vaults as
steel reinforcing proved to be prohibitedly expensive.
• The vaults project forward slightly as deep arches.
This helped to shade the façades, engenders a
sense of shelter, and provide a low scale to the
spaces between the entrances to the dwellings.
BUILDING UNIT DESIGN
• The design of the building unit has to be simple for ease of
replication

• The optimized number of openings presents an easy relation to


the site layout. 

• Clubbing services like the toilets and kitchen together save


plumbing costs

• Incorporating passive design strategies and low-tech operations


like natural light and ventilation, controlling heat gain, etc., lead
to healthier living.

• simple unit design with a living room, kitchen, rear court,


bathroom, and a toilet with parallel walls flanked by vaults on
top. 

• The residents use the rear court as a utility area with plants in
the center
GROSS DENSITY: 44.97 Units / Ha
AREA OF INTERVENTION: 1.6 Ha from
NET DENSITY: 78.57 Units / Ha Housing units for the research
institute’s staff – ground floor walk-up
units built within the constraints of
existing landscape. 

The plan is based on


a square with open
corners oriented
towards the
prevailing breeze
direction
INTERIOR AND EXTERIOR

HOUSING

Quarters
Grey paint directly applied on
the brick to express the textures
of the wall, while sealing the 1 Entry, 2 Living Room, 3 Kitchen, 4
Bedroom, 5 Court, and 6 Terrace
porous brick 
top): ... terrace ... always feels incompelte ..
climate, light, complee with roof, ... complete
building in itself can't, (but) can't the terrace tell
story of the life that goes on there?
• dward walls", Main structure/parallel overhangs (bottom): Building must change its aality if it faces
with ventilation; — louvered windows, — light ground, trees and sky: one spce with services for a
reflected on ceiling, roof ventilation. small house (old ATIRA 'F' type)
Single room houses have movable partitions. Every
house has a backyard with a toilet. All toilets are
strategically placed for easy drainage

This housing illustrates a new typology


where the bricks are for load bearing walls,
for segmental vault as roof and for cavity
walls to insulate external services instead
of regular steel and concrete cube.
THANK YOU

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