Kanchanjunga apartments

Name Of Project : Kanchanjunga Apartments
Architect : Charles Correa
Structure Type : High Rise Building
Location : India, Mumbai, Cumballa Hill
Height : 84 Mtrs
Floor : 27
Function : Housing (Residential)
Material : reinforced concrete

1. Kanchanjunga Apartments
___Charles Correa

Cumballa Hill, Mumbai, 1970-1983

2. Name Of Project : Kanchanjunga Apartments
Architect : Charles Correa
Structure Type : High Rise Building
Location : India, Mumbai, Cumballa Hill
Height : 84 Mtrs
Floor : 27
Function : Housing (Residential)
Material : reinforced concrete

3. Site

4. Concept
The building is a square tower. Charles correa created gaps in the tower. The two floors high loggias are
created to keep out the sun and take in the cool sea breezes.

5. CONCEPT
●Each house in kanchanjunga
apartments provided with the
two-story garden terrace.
●Cross ventilation works very
effectively in the building helps in
reducing the heat gain.

6. Program and typology
The opening up of the
apartments in the tower
happens with a central core
for vertical transport.
The tower is placed on a
heightened ground level with
parking beneath.
Entrance and central core
with staircases and
elevators

7. section

8. Apartment TYPE A SPECIAL

9. Apartment TYPE A SPECIAL
Amount : 1
Bedrooms 4
1 Big loggia open on 1
sides ( SE FACADE
The apartment is
located next to
entrance

10. Apartment TYPE b
Amount : 8
Bedrooms 3
1 Big loggia open on 2 sides ( NW
AND NE facade

11. Apartment TYPE c
Amount : 6
Bedrooms 5
1 Big loggia open on 1 sides (
SE

12. Apartment TYPE c special
Amount : 2
Bedrooms 5
1 Big loggia open on 2 sides
( NW OR SW facade )
The apartments have a
central inner staircase to
bridge the difference in
levels

13. Apartment TYPE D
Amount : 2
Bedrooms 4
2 Big loggia one open on
1 side and other open on
two sides

14. Apartment TYPE e
Amount : 2
Bedrooms 6
2 Big loggia one open on 1 sides and
open on two side
Penthouses on the top of the building

15. Kanchanjunga apartments plan

17. ●Different types of square compositions are designed in the elevation which gives it aesthetical uniqueness.

18. COLOURS
●Warm color is used in the
terrace garden of kanchenjunga.
●Warm colors make space look
bigger, more open and inviting.

19. First of all the central core was created of
reinforced concrete by using the slip from
method
It is the main structural element for resisting
lateral loads.
The facade was built after the core and is also
made of reinforced concrete.
This was necessary because of cantilevered
terraces
Construction

20. Over view

The kanchanjunga tower is one of the first high rise building (this area of)
Bombay. Almost all current skyscrapers are built after kanchenjunga.