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French Embassy Staff Quarters: LOCATION: Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, India ARCHITECT: Raj Rewal Construction Period: 1968-69

The French Embassy Staff Quarters in New Delhi, India was designed by architect Raj Rewal and constructed between 1968-1969. It comprises eight residential units for embassy staff, arranged in clusters of three units on the ground and first floors and two units on the second floor. Each unit provides private living spaces like bedrooms, bathrooms, and patios or roof terraces while also encouraging interaction through shared open staircases and courtyards. The building utilizes local materials like brick and wood and was designed with principles of natural ventilation, lighting, and privacy for each family.

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French Embassy Staff Quarters: LOCATION: Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, India ARCHITECT: Raj Rewal Construction Period: 1968-69

The French Embassy Staff Quarters in New Delhi, India was designed by architect Raj Rewal and constructed between 1968-1969. It comprises eight residential units for embassy staff, arranged in clusters of three units on the ground and first floors and two units on the second floor. Each unit provides private living spaces like bedrooms, bathrooms, and patios or roof terraces while also encouraging interaction through shared open staircases and courtyards. The building utilizes local materials like brick and wood and was designed with principles of natural ventilation, lighting, and privacy for each family.

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FRENCH EMBASSY STAFF QUARTERS

LOCATION: Chanakyapuri, New Delhi, India


ARCHITECT: Raj Rewal
CONSTRUCTION PERIOD: 1968-69

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FRENCH EMBASSY STAFF QUARTERS
• The French Embassy Staff Quarters was built as a modern settlement comprising of a community of
eight families; units contemporary in appearance but traditional in influence and interaction.

• Idea was to allow privacy to both Embassy and staff quarters without hampering both their functions.

• Raj Rewal successfully achieved this through the creation of private spaces through courtyards, roof
terraces and open staircases.

Open staircases encouraging interaction Private spaces


DESIGN PRINCIPLES:
• Four principle concerns stand out:
-Courtyard is the focus of the plan.
-Natural ventilation is a key factor of determining the form of building.
-Good natural lighting is important ,as is protection from the sun- smaller windows onto exterior and larger windows
towards terraces.
-Privacy for each family unit has been ensured by walls upto 2m high around roof terraces and independent entrances and
courtyards.

• Features of the building:


-Affordable housing was kept in mind when designing the French Embassy Staff Quarters.
-The units are arranged in clusters of eight; three each on the ground and first floors, and two on the second.
-All entries are from pedestrian streets.
-The units vary in size from 600-800 square meters.
-Each unit includes two bedrooms, a bathroom, a space toilet, a veranda, a kitchen and a private patio or a roof-terrace.
-The spaces were arranged in order to enhance the relationship between kitchen, verandah and bedrooms to ensure
maximum utility.
-Given a separate entry from the rear of the site, the staff quarters comprised a three storeyed cluster with eight units,
varying from 60 to 70 square metres in total area. Each of the units typically included two bedrooms, a kitchen, bath and
W.C. and a large verandah but the plan was altered at every level with the rooms being biggest at the ground floor and
smallest at the second.
-Much of Raj Rewal’s housing design principles can be observed in this housing.
MATERIALS:
• Constructed on load bearing brick walls on concrete slabs.

• Supporting structure of reinforced concrete is also used as decoration to highlight and distinguish the different levels.

• Locally available rough bricks are used for the coating.

• Wood is used on doors and windows, and in some elements of separation -between public and private areas.

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