The Uppal’s Marble Arch in Manimajra, located on the Chandigarh – Panchkula road, is a well-established low rise Residential Housing Society. This project is a perfect combination of comfort and style, specifically designed to suit any home buyer’s requirement and conveniences. Spread over an area of appx. 5.40 acres, Uppal Marble Arch is one of the first among itself spacious housing societies in the Chandigarh region with all Morden Facilities and Amenities . The project has appx. 168 apartments with a configuration of 3 BHK, 4 BHK apartments ranging from appx. 2050 – 2300.sq.ft.

The ultimate abode for a life full of tranquillity and blissful living. The exteriors as well as the interiors are intelligently planned to avoid any wastage of spaces. Marble Arch is the ultimate abode which is strategically built with good quality fixtures and fittings for a life full of comfort and convenience.

The Uppal Marble Arch offers a host of facilities for residents. This includes a fully functional club house including a state of the art gymnasium, steam & sauna facility, indoor games including pool table, table tennis & a sitting lounge area. The residents have access to outdoor facilities include a basketball court, badminton court, & two swimming pools. Other provisions landscaping & tree planting, sewage treatment plant, power back up, security. These amenities in are those that every homebuyer aspires for and is an excellent combination of comfort and convenience to suit every requirement.

The abode is aesthetically built by architecture professionals in the field by the name of “Morphogenesis”. A globally recognised architectural firm recognized for it’s diverse work that encompasses a range of specialised practise areas – Master Planning, Residential, Commercial, Workplace, Institutional, Hospitality and Houses. The practice operates in India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Srilanka, South Africa, Afghanistan & UAE.

Architect’s Project Outlook

Marble Arch is a housing development located in Chandigarh on a 5.4 acre site along the periphery of the city. The project’s objective was to develop a new prototype for housing in Chandigarh as an entity to address issues of liveability, spatial configuration, environmental and social issues, while shifting away from the archetypal morphology of high specification residential modules and equipment crammed into an undersized apartment.
The project called for the generation of maximum built-up area for residential accommodation within the imposed controls and yet construct a favourable communal environment. The spatial planning is generated by creating a pedestrian field for the apartments in the centre of the site by isolating all vehicular movement to the periphery. The pedestrian field is then laid out with strips of defined functions of residential facilities, services, and recreation areas flowing from the east to the west, which allows all apartments to be developed in alignment with optimum north-south orientation to allow for natural daylight and ventilation.

The built volumes of the residential strips are sculpted with a play of volumes to provide terraces/open areas at all levels and generate an interface with the open areas. The service areas of all apartments are kept along the service strip which gets broken up into service courtyards. As per the development control norms, Basement Parking is contained within the building periphery, dictating the configuration of the development in the form of linear strips.

The development has been configured as a set of 9 blocks of 5 storeys each with 4 apartments to a level with service courtyards straddled as buffers within- 168 units which are a combination of 3/ 4 bedroom apartments, and penthouses on the top floors. Along with these dwelling units, ancillary facilities like a health club, gymnasium, amphitheatre, swimming pool, tot lots, basketball court, and social activity spaces are provided within the development.

Each block within the development has an atrium lobby to provide a sense of community. Given the fact that this is a low-rise development, the opportunity to provide terraces on each level to be able to establish a relationship with the ground level has been fully utilized. A unique Scale is achieved with regards to contemporary housing in Chandigarh which establishes a crucial relationship between heights, the distance between any 2 blocks and the landscape.

The outward expression of the housing relies on a varied use of materials which are carefully chosen to enhance the individuality of the spaces within. The design employs the use of grids being superimposed on the entire scheme both in the case of buildings, where it gets subdivided to generate spaces within the apartments as well as onto the landscape by way of pedestrian linkages and green areas.