MVRDV designed a vertical village in Pune
By: MVRDV, Shanghai
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Contributor(s): Rotterdam, Paris.
Publisher: New Delhi Burda Media India Private Limited 2019Edition: Vol.36(9), September.Description: 40-48p.Subject(s): URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN (AR-UPD)Online resources: Click here
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Architecture+DesignSummary: Located in Pune, India’s eighth-largest city and one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, the project provides 1,068 apartments for a diverse section of the rapidly expanding population, a true vertical village that will house around 5,000 people in one building. The project is a part of Amanora Park Town, a community created in 2007 thanks to the legislation passed in 2005 by the state of Maharashtra to encourage the development of residential “townships” near its cities.
The design aimed to offer an alternative to the existing pattern, while still delivering apartments at the usual low price (since competition for new residents between different housing developments is fierce). Instead of a cluster of freestanding buildings, the architects’ response to the brief was a singular mountainous structure with peaks and valleys, under which 1,068 apartments are unified in one building. However, despite its expressive appearance, the design of towers in fact stems from a series of methodical decisions based on the architects’ research into Indian housing. A critical deviation from the norm was to convince the client that the entire development would be more vibrant with a mixture of different units. This way, the building would ensure that the users from the full spectrum of India’s exploding middle class all mingle—including young, mobile professionals who are new to the city; older, established residents; and families both large and small, all at a range of income levels. Apartments ranging from 45sq m to 450sq m are mixed together, a diversity enabled by the building’s mountainous shape and the shifting floor plans that it generates.
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Located in Pune, India’s eighth-largest city and one of the fastest-growing cities in the country, the project provides 1,068 apartments for a diverse section of the rapidly expanding population, a true vertical village that will house around 5,000 people in one building. The project is a part of Amanora Park Town, a community created in 2007 thanks to the legislation passed in 2005 by the state of Maharashtra to encourage the development of residential “townships” near its cities.
The design aimed to offer an alternative to the existing pattern, while still delivering apartments at the usual low price (since competition for new residents between different housing developments is fierce). Instead of a cluster of freestanding buildings, the architects’ response to the brief was a singular mountainous structure with peaks and valleys, under which 1,068 apartments are unified in one building. However, despite its expressive appearance, the design of towers in fact stems from a series of methodical decisions based on the architects’ research into Indian housing. A critical deviation from the norm was to convince the client that the entire development would be more vibrant with a mixture of different units. This way, the building would ensure that the users from the full spectrum of India’s exploding middle class all mingle—including young, mobile professionals who are new to the city; older, established residents; and families both large and small, all at a range of income levels. Apartments ranging from 45sq m to 450sq m are mixed together, a diversity enabled by the building’s mountainous shape and the shifting floor plans that it generates.
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