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    This document describes Charles Correa's Incremental Housing project in Belapur, India from 1983-1986. It provides details on Correa's design approach, which allowed for incremental expansion of housing units over time to meet residents' changing needs. The project demonstrated high-density housing at 500 people per hectare through a low-rise typology organized into clusters that included open spaces and community services. Correa's vernacular design used local materials and responded to the climate and landscape.

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    This document describes Charles Correa's Incremental Housing project in Belapur, India from 1983-1986. It provides details on Correa's design approach, which allowed for incremental expansion of housing units over time to meet residents' changing needs. The project demonstrated high-density housing at 500 people per hectare through a low-rise typology organized into clusters that included open spaces and community services. Correa's vernacular design used local materials and responded to the climate and landscape.

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    This document describes Charles Correa's Incremental Housing project in Belapur, India from 1983-1986. It provides details on Correa's design approach, which allowed for incremental expansion of housing units over time to meet residents' changing needs. The project demonstrated high-density housing at 500 people per hectare through a low-rise typology organized into clusters that included open spaces and community services. Correa's vernacular design used local materials and responded to the climate and landscape.

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    This document describes Charles Correa's Incremental Housing project in Belapur, India from 1983-1986. It provides details on Correa's design approach, which allowed for incremental expansion of housing units over time to meet residents' changing needs. The project demonstrated high-density housing at 500 people per hectare through a low-rise typology organized into clusters that included open spaces and community services. Correa's vernacular design used local materials and responded to the climate and landscape.

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    INCREMENTAL

    HOUSING
    BELAPUR
    1983-86
    BY CHARLES
    CORREA
    Charles Mark Correa
    Born on September 1, 1930,
    Secunderabad
    Charles Mark Correa
    Born on September 1, 1930,
    Secunderabad

    Awards
    • RIBA Royal Gold Medal - 1984.
    • Padma Vibhushan (2006)
    • Padma Shri (1972).
    • Praemium Imperiale (1994)
    • 7th Aga Khan Award for Architecture for Madhya Pradesh
    Legislative Assembly (1998)
    • Austrian Decoration for Science and Art (2005)
    "Making housing is like a bird building
    its nest" - Charles Correa
    "Making housing is like a bird building
    its nest" - Charles Correa
    Design Principle
    “You start with a basic house, but
    you have to let people change it to
    their own needs”

    To give each unit its


    own site to allow for
    expansion
    (Incrementality)
    Embracing The Vernacular
    "The rich Indian, driving his new Mercedes, just couldn't understand why a white
    person would be sitting in the road with lice in his hair. A friend of mine used to say that
    the hippy is sending us a signal: 'I am coming from where you are going,' he is saying.
    'And it's not worth going there.'"

    What is vernacular
    Embracing The Vernacular
    "The rich Indian, driving his new Mercedes, just couldn't understand why a white
    person would be sitting in the road with lice in his hair. A friend of mine used to say that
    the hippy is sending us a signal: 'I am coming from where you are going,' he is saying.
    'And it's not worth going there.'"

    What is vernacular
    The simple product of
    climate, landscape and
    local techniques
    Natural , locally occurring materials
    simple structural system
    Traditional architectural style responding to climate
    Master Plan
    Project demonstrates how
    high density housing (500
    people per hectare) can be
    achieved in a low-rise

    typology, while including


    open to sky spaces and
    services, like schools, that
    the community requires
    UNIT TYPOLOGY
    4

    7
    4

    Central Community Space (8x8) 7


    4

    Central Community Space (8x8) 7

    Seven individual units make one cluster


    Central Community Space (12x12)

    Central Community Space (12x12)


    Central Community Space (12x12)

    3 Clusters together form a single module

    Central Community Space (12x12)


    8x8

    12x12

    3 Modules come together to form a


    Larger community space (20x20)
    So…Did it work?
    References
    http://archnet.org/system/publications/contents/7087/original/DPC3963.pdf?1384808064

    http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2013/may/15/charles-correa-india-greates
    t-architect-exhibition

    http://www.charlescorrea.net/

    http://thearchiblog.wordpress.com/2011/01/09/charles-correa-church-at-parumala-and-belapur-housing/

    http://www.sunday-guardian.com/artbeat/building-in-the-vernacular-charles-correa-and-the-idea-of-india

    http://www.mukogawa-u.ac.jp/~iasu2012/pdf/iaSU2012_Proceedings_404.pdf

    http://huntington.wmc.ohio-state.edu/public/index.cfm?fuseaction=showThisDetail&ObjectID=30029419&deta
    il=large
    Thank you.

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