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Building Facts & Regulation
Architects Name: Mohammed Aslam
Firm: Aslam Associates
Area: 3,12,442Sq.ft
Extent:
•Front:82m
•Side:74m
Setback:
there is 8m setback
around the mall
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Extent of site & building
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Site Regulation
• 8m of setback around the building.
• 70% of site is used.
• 1.8Acres of land.
• Has a security and safe complaint building
design and layout within the plot
• The spaces are designed safe
• The egress is away from main traffic road.
• Special consideration is given to parking loading
and walkways.
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Proximity To Major Junctions
• It is 6km from airport.
• 5-6km from railway station.
• Bus stop at a distance of 40m.
• Also boost the social fabric of hostels, schools,
office, bank.
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Physical Aspects
Soil type and properties: Red sandy soil
Properties:it has great load bearing capacity
Water table: 300ft
Topography and slope: 5-6ft
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LANDSCAPE
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Social Economic Factors
• Rental value – 9500/sq.ft.
• Considered as the hub of the open community.
• It is posh locality.
• Obvious consideration for property buyers
• High and mighty of Hyderabad stay here
• 3-4BHK varies from 1-4Crore
• Highly preferred for rented accommodation.
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• This area is completely transformed into a urban
commercial centre of importance
• Most expensive zip code of India
• It is segregated varying from 1-14
• Many retail businesses have been established in
this area
• This suburb has good road network with road
being renovated constantly to accomadate high
traffic in peak hours.
Social
Economic
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Temperature
• Over the course of a year, the temperature
typically varies from 61°F to 102°F and is rarely
below55°F or above 107°F.
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Daily High and Low Temperature
The daily average low (blue) and high (red) temperature with percentile bands
(inner band from 25th to 75th percentile, outer band from 10th to 90th percentile).
Maximum intensity of sun rays on site
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Humidity
• The relative humidity typically ranges from 23% (dry)
to 95% (very humid) over the course of the year, rarely dropping
below 13% (very dry) and reaching as high as 100% (very
humid).
Relative Humidity
The average daily high (blue) and low (brown) relative humidity with percentile bands (inner bands from 25th to
75th percentile, outer bands from 10th to 90th percentile).
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Green cover
• Flora & fauna at the mall.
- Wodyetia Bifurcata (Foxtail) similar
to palm trees, Paiodi silver plant ,
shrubs and bushes.
• Features:
- Creates a green environment
- Easy to maintain
- Can grow in extreme hot and humid
climate
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Concept and design ideas
Egyptian pylons and pyramids
The architect used pylons as concept to
design the front façade of the building and used
glass pyramids as the dome on top of the building
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Circulation
• Open plan areas, walkways corridor and lobbys
were well planned, easing circulation.
• Travel distance was minimised to benefit all.
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Psychological Feel At The Site
• The pylons are dominant feature on front façade
the mall looks balanced because of its proper
scale and proportion. The structure is simple yet
dominating.
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Psychological Feel At The Site
• City centre scores the most in its distinct sense
of character, beat the correct sense of lightning ,
wall to wall carpeting in the food court, vitrified
tile are the impressive paintings of each type of
cuisine on its wall, its makes the visitor
immediately spot its individualistic quality.
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Fire Safety
• The fire safety includes automatic fire suppression
systems, smoke detectors, heat detectors, fire alarms .
• AC systems, the systems have automatic fan shut-offs
and fire dampers to stop fire being engulfed more zone to
the other.
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Inference
The ambience of the mall is good
The mall manages to look spacious
It scores a distinct sense of character
The planning is simple
The corridors are not narrow and hence they break
the monotony
The structure is simple yet dominant
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Inference
• Ease in which a particular store on a certain level
can be reached
• Four modes of mall travel, escalators , elevators
and two flights of staircase at close proximity to
each other
• One doesn’t loose time in merely wandering all
over the mall in search of stores
• There are not many blindspots inside
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Inference
• Does not have a very large parking
• Steel bars of railings around the staircase of 5
stories of the mall have gaps wide enough to slip
a infant through
• There’s no separate toilets for staff
• There’s no much landscape in mall
• No proper facilities for handicapped
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