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    This document summarizes the Belapur Incremental Housing project in New Mumbai designed by Charles Correa in the 1980s. The project demonstrates high-density affordable housing using low-rise courtyard homes built with simple materials. There are five dwelling types based on plot sizes ranging from 45-75 square meters. Materials include brick, plaster, wood, and stone. The project aims to provide a village-like quality of life while integrating houses into the larger community.

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    This document summarizes the Belapur Incremental Housing project in New Mumbai designed by Charles Correa in the 1980s. The project demonstrates high-density affordable housing using low-rise courtyard homes built with simple materials. There are five dwelling types based on plot sizes ranging from 45-75 square meters. Materials include brick, plaster, wood, and stone. The project aims to provide a village-like quality of life while integrating houses into the larger community.

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    This document summarizes the Belapur Incremental Housing project in New Mumbai designed by Charles Correa in the 1980s. The project demonstrates high-density affordable housing using low-rise courtyard homes built with simple materials. There are five dwelling types based on plot sizes ranging from 45-75 square meters. Materials include brick, plaster, wood, and stone. The project aims to provide a village-like quality of life while integrating houses into the larger community.

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    This document summarizes the Belapur Incremental Housing project in New Mumbai designed by Charles Correa in the 1980s. The project demonstrates high-density affordable housing using low-rise courtyard homes built with simple materials. There are five dwelling types based on plot sizes ranging from 45-75 square meters. Materials include brick, plaster, wood, and stone. The project aims to provide a village-like quality of life while integrating houses into the larger community.

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    BELAPUR INCREMENTAL HOUSING

    ASSIGNMENT-01
    COURSE TITLE: HOUSING
    COURSE CODE: ARCH 414

    SUBMITTED TO

    NAFIZA YASMIN RAHMAN


    LECTURER, DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE.
    FAREAST INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY (FIU)

    SUBMITTED BY
    NAZIM UDDIN MAHAMUD
    ID: 18328012
    BATCH: 5-1

    DATE: 02.12.2022
    Belapur Incremental Housing
    This modular housing based in Belapur, New Mumbai, is designed by Ar. Charles
    Correa. This project, which was constructed in the 1980s, stands as a perfect
    example of affordable and high-density housing, which is the need of the hour.

    Site Surrounding
    Weather
    Belapur are in the middle and the summers are that easy to define. The best time to
    visit are January, February, March, October, November, and December. The month
    with the highest relative humidity is July (88.90 %). The month with the lowest relative
    humidity is December (56.23 %). The month with the highest number of rainy days is
    July (29.00 days). The month with the lowest number of rainy days is March (0.17
    days). Ballarpur’s climate is classified as tropical. In winter, there is much less rainfall
    than in summer. According to Koppel and Geiger, this climate is classified as Aw. The
    average annual temperature in Belapur is 26.6 °C | 79.9 °F. Precipitation here is about
    1915 mm. 75.4 inch per year.

    Purpose
    Belapur incremental housing project designed for mass affordable housing in New
    Bombay (Navi Mumbai) which demonstrated how high densities could be achieved
    with low-rise courtyard homes, built with simple materials at a human scale.

    Master Plan
    Zoning & Function:
     Housing Unit.
     Green Area.
     Courtyard.
     Car Parking.
     Community Space.
    Module Types
    There are five types of dwellings designed according to plot size, the smallest being just a
    single room with a toilet, and the most elaborate a two-storeyed tenement. The houses have
    no common walls, but the toilets of two neighbouring dwellings do, for ease of plumbing

    services.

    Designed based on plot sizes varying from 45sqm to 75 sqm

    TYPE-A PLAN
    ELEVATION Simplest
    unit consisting one
    room and toilet
    TYPE-B PLAN ELEVATION

    TYPE-F PLAN ELEVATION

    Largest unit similar to a double-


    storeyed tenement

    Materials
    Hardscape: Brick, Plaster of white color, Colorful wooden fixtures, Outdoor paving stone
    blocks.

    Softscape: Coconut tree, Mango tree, Basil tree, Grass and different type local tree.

    Conclusion

     This housing project offers the


    quality of life of a village with the
    sophistication of a city.
     Each cluster permits the
    emergence of a local community
    feeling, while integrating each
    house to the whole settlement at
    different levels. The hierarchy itself
    is very organic.

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