This housing is laid out along a pedestrian street with a mixed development model of apartments / row houses and few single standing homes made up of 40+ dwelling units. As the residents within this settlement are from very diverse national / cultural and economic background; we decided not to follow the usual housing project pattern of typical designs of 1 /2/3 bedroom units but work with developing a design language that could be interpreted and adapted to diverse lifestyles.

The building envelope design is contextual to the climate interpreted with local building materials. The volumes are a play of roofs in clay tiles, flat terraces and sit out verandahs. The layout allows for varied lifestyles form garden / house integrated row houses for families with studio and 2 BHK apartments for singles and couples.

A balance of privacy as required by the European inhabitants is balanced with lively street life that allows for play by children by segregating the movement of the people from the vehicles; private greens from public spaces. Low traffic also allows for landscaping that is soft with minimum paved areas for better percolation of the rain water.

Roof runoffs is collected in swales for percolation and all the sewage (black and grey) is recycled using only gravity flow biological process to be re-used for the gardens