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    The document summarizes Charles Correa's Belapur incremental housing project in Navi Mumbai, India. [1] It proposed affordable housing clusters of 7-12 pairs of low-rise courtyard homes built with simple materials. [2] Each cluster shared a communal courtyard, while still allowing individual homes to be extended independently. [3] The project planned to house 550 families in 6 acres through this clustered courtyard model.

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    The document summarizes Charles Correa's Belapur incremental housing project in Navi Mumbai, India. [1] It proposed affordable housing clusters of 7-12 pairs of low-rise courtyard homes built with simple materials. [2] Each cluster shared a communal courtyard, while still allowing individual homes to be extended independently. [3] The project planned to house 550 families in 6 acres through this clustered courtyard model.

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    A case study on Belapur housing from point of view of affrodable housing

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    The document summarizes Charles Correa's Belapur incremental housing project in Navi Mumbai, India. [1] It proposed affordable housing clusters of 7-12 pairs of low-rise courtyard homes built with simple materials. [2] Each cluster shared a communal courtyard, while still allowing individual homes to be extended independently. [3] The project planned to house 550 families in 6 acres through this clustered courtyard model.

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    Belapur Housing

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    The document summarizes Charles Correa's Belapur incremental housing project in Navi Mumbai, India. [1] It proposed affordable housing clusters of 7-12 pairs of low-rise courtyard homes built with simple materials. [2] Each cluster shared a communal courtyard, while still allowing individual homes to be extended independently. [3] The project planned to house 550 families in 6 acres through this clustered courtyard model.

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    The key takeaways are that the Belapur incremental housing project demonstrated high densities through low-rise courtyard homes built with simple materials at a human scale.

    The location of the incremental housing project is 2 kms from the Railway Station and 40 kms from the Airport in New Bombay (Navi Mumbai).

    The houses are arranged in clusters of 7-12 pairs around communal courtyards. Three clusters of 7 houses each form a module of 21 homes.

    INCREMENTAL HOUSING, BELAPUR

    CHARLES CORREA’S POETRY IN CONCRETE


    LOCATION

    •2 kms from Railway


    Station

    •40 kms from Airport


    BRIEF INTRODUCTION
    • Belapur incremental housing project -
    a proposal 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.
    • Based on clusters of between seven
    and 12 pairs of houses arranged
    around communal courtyards, the
    buildings did not share party walls
    – allowing each family to extend
    and adapt their own house
    independently.

    • 550 families were planned for in a 6-


    acre area limitation.
    PLANNING SPACES
    • The project is generated by a
    hierarchy of spaces. The first FORMATION OF MODULES
    is the private courtyard of
    single dwelling used as a
    space for outdoor activities
    during most of the year.
    • Subsequently, seven units
    are grouped to form a small
    courtyard town of about 8m
    x 8m.
    • Three of these groups form a
    module of twenty-one homes
    that describes the collective space
    of the next scale (approximately
    12m x 12m).
    3X3X1X7
    • Correa discussed housing and
    the importance of people to
    be involved in determining its
    design and use.
    • Additionally, he also
    emphasized incremental
    housing as a centerpiece to
    any solution that was
    proposed for a place like
    Dharavi
    • The footprint of each plan
    varies little in size (from 45 sq.
    m to 70 sq. m), maintaining
    equity (fairness) in the
    community
    • Scheme caters wide range
    from the lowest budgets of Rs
    20000, Middle income groups
    Rs 30000-50000 and Upper
    income Rs 180000.
    TYPE A TYPE B
    The 7-house unit

    Service line
    indication
    MATERIALS AND CONSTRUCTION
    • TECHNOLOGY: external walls of
    brick; roof structure covered with wooden
    shingles.
    • MATERIALS: brick, plaster of white color,
    colorful wooden fixtures, outdoor paving
    stone blocks.
    • Individual houses rely on simple floor plans
    and building methods, enabling local
    masons and craftspeople to construct them.
    • The village was produced with the idea that
    the residents were going to alter it in many
    ways, making it truly their own, therefore
    homes are freestanding, so residents can
    add on to them as their families grow; and
    differently priced plans appeal to a wide
    variety of income levels
    THE CURRENT SCENARIO

    • Many of the original buildings are


    demolished and now replaced with
    much bigger concrete houses by
    the aspiring middle classes.
    • Yet the courtyards and the hierarchy of
    community spaces remains intact: it is
    a strong piece of city-making that has
    lasted beyond the individual dwellings.
    • Some of the original houses still
    standing, but most of them look
    different. The trees had grown up and
    shrouded the whole complex in shade
    in growth. There was a range of
    housing there. Upon an informal count,
    it was found that roughly one third of
    the original homes had been torn
    down and completely rebuilt.
    Type-A house
    Unmaintained central courtyard space

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