Project in Detail

Crescent lake homes, Oragadam-Tamil Nadu

The Design Philosophy:
CRESCENT LAKE HOMES is a pioneering example of integrating living, studying, sharing commercial activities and working nearby, in only one location.

In planning the site, we created a network of car and pedestrian routes opening up the existing municipal lake, and forging connections to neighbouring highway and secondary streets, locating the different buildings in a way that demonstrates the value of good communication and the sharing of the main public spaces on an equal social basis.

The urban and architectural design, as well as final masterplan, reintroduces the idea of mixed use Indian development, encouraging a rich social mix, new private and public places, provided on both a local and a city scale, and half of the residential units were designated as low-cost housing.

The site, covering approximately 25 acres, includes several residential buildings alongside, housing a lake and a natural park. The master plan is an attempt to rediscover a culture of mixed use, encouraging the integration of cleaner surrounding industries into residential neighborhoods and exploring the potential of greener, more ecologically sensitive structures in order to create a sustainable urban community.

Five organizational generators were identified in the urban design:

• The existing highway that interconnects the project with surrounding site.
• An existing municipal lake to be revitalized as a landmark for the site.
• The proposed linear park of 10% plot area.
• Creating new open space in the tradition of Indian parks and squares.
• The six residential high-rise premium towers with highly innovative design, occupies a semicircular location, overlooking the lake, the row apartments and the clubhouse, are having great views towards the south and north orientations.

Day light is drawn into the different residential units and the mall below, located beside the highway and the main entrance. A viewing gallery is offered in all residential units -premium, row apartments, affordable towards surrounding and beyond. All VAASTU principles have been incorporated in the design of our masterplan and different buildings.

Masterplan aims to improve pedestrian and vehicle traffic, enjoyment of the area while enhancing the settings of the buildings, lake, plazas and the park, creating more green spaces in the process.

A project of this kind is a balancing act ,which must promote genuinely integrated solutions to cater for the many needs of the owners and visitors, and can be ecologically sensitive and strive towards sustainability.

In all the residential units, whether they are in a second or a tenth storey, you can look out across Indian skyline, having a sublime contact with the sky and the weather. The skyline is constantly fascinating and punctuated by a surprising amount of greenery.

From the architects desk….
After identifying the characteristics and oportunities of the programme, the plot and the surroundings, we solved all functional, formal and contextual aspects of all destinies, always introducing new technologies to design these unique premium towers, road apartments with undulated terraces and ultimate design for affordable and EWS units.
We integrated contemporary design with indian traditions, creating a unique architecture with exclusive interior design, always looking at the importance of views along, from and into the different spaces of all buildings.
The design evolved to maximize views towards the lake and the forest, both in affordable units as well as premiumn apartments. The T shape of the 6 premium towers are disposed in a semi circular floor plan shape, developed around the row apartments and the Club House.
A challenging aspect of the design was accommodating TATA HOUSING's strict requirement of units layouts within changing envelopes in the different residential units, from EWS to PREMIUM row apartments.
We took the initiative to conserve resources and to put into practice green building principles in recreational facilities, in order to achieve LEED Green Building Certification for the whole complex. Green building principles are considered in our design process, thus reducing life cycle costs as well as building costs. This helps benefit the buyers as well as future generations.
The six residential 32 to 27 - storey premium towers, occupy a semicircular location, overlooking the lake, the row apartments and the clubhouse. All Premium units having great views towards the south and north orientations, as well as Affordable and EWS apartments.

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