GEOGRAPHY COUNTRY - INDIA STATE – MADHYA PRADESH REGION - MALWA DISTRICT – INDORE ELEVATION – 553 m COORDINATES – 22 0 43” N 75 0 54” E POPULATION – 1,964,086 ARCHITECTURE Indore has architecturally significant buildings in a wide range of styles spanning distinct historical and cultural periods of Holkar (Maratha), Mughal and British era. ABOUT • SITE – 6 kms north of Indore city. • CLIENT – Indore Debvelopment Authority, Indore , India. • ARCHITECT – Vastu – Shilpa Foundation ; B. V. Doshi • PLANNER – Himanshu H. Parikh •ENGINEER – Muktirajsinhji Chauhan •CONSULTANT ENGINEERS – V. D. Joshi , S. L. Shah , Deepak Kantawala , Dinesh Panchal. • LAND AREA – 220 acres • PHASE I – 100 hectares • NO. OF PLOTS – 6500 • POPULATION (projected)- 40,000 (initial) 65,000 (final) • PLANNING - 1982 TOPOGRAPHY • The site is flat with no major physical features, except a natural rainwater channel that runs diagonally across the south-west corner. • An accurate level survey shows a fall of 9 meters across the site’s width of one kilometer, which gives a gradient of 1 in 110. SOIL • The site and the rest of the city has a 2-2.5- metre-thick top strata of evenly deposited black cotton soil, expansive clay with some organic content. • Soil is very unreliable bearing material, as it is highly adhesive, soft, expand in volume when wet and shrinks heavily when dry. •Indore has a borderline Humid Subtropical climate. • Average summer temperature – 40 0 C • Average winter temperature – 8 – 26 0 C • Rainfall – 180 – 360 mm COMMUNITY FACILITIES AND SERVICE INFRASTRUCTURES AREA REQUIREMENTS FOR EDUCATIONAL FACILITIES LEVELS OF ACCESSIBILTY At the community/ street level, the aim was to produce a design linking the scale of the built form and the human scale by incorporating a street life with plugged cluster houses, sympathetic and aesthetically complimenting each other and a socio cultural life of community interaction of families in the “otta” (outdoor platform). • An important feature of the Indian home, at the service space between house, community spaces and the cul-de-sac. • The street corner spaces are formed by the alternating arrangement of the road, SITE AND SERVICE APPROACH • Cost – effective. Progressive development of facilities. • Houses built by the people themselves to suit their needs. Each family provided with a plot having a water tank , sewerage connection , paved access with street lights , storm water drainage. Houses were clustered in a group of 10. Septic tank provided for every 2 clusters. Literature study: Aranya