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Kanchanjunga!
Correa’s innovative “vertical bungalow” living
One of Kanchanjunga’s double-height terrace gardens, semi-sheltered but scooping the breezes from the Indian Ocean. (Photo © Charles Correa Associates, courtesy The British Architectural Library, RIBA)
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In Mumbai, buildings are ideally orientated east-west to catch the prevailing sea-breezes, and views out to the Arabian Sea on one side and the harbour on the other: the same directions as the hot afternoon sun and heavy monsoon rains. Bungalows traditionally solved this problem by wrapping a protective layer of roofed and shaded yet open veranda around the main living areas.
At Kanchanjunga (1970-83), an 84-metre-high condominium of 32 luxury apartments in Mumbai, Correa radically applied these principles to a high-rise building.
Four different types of apartments interlock across the width of the block, ending in double-height terraçe gardens at the corners that act like partly protected verandas, their internal spatial complexity expressed as semi-regular graphic cut-outs up the height of the block.
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Kanchanjunga Apartments, Mumbai. (Images © Charles Correa Associates, courtesy The British Architectural Library, RIBA)
Sketch section though block showing the interlocking of two apartments.
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The Kanchanjunga Apartment complex in its urban Mumbai context. (Image © Charles Correa Associates, courtesy The British Architectural Library, RIBA)
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