Drawings, Asian Games Village (1980–1982), New Delhi, India 印度新德里亞運村（1980至1982年）繪圖

The Delhi Development Authority commissioned Raj Rewal to design the Asian Games Village in southern New Delhi after a 1980 competition. Rewal’s first built housing project, the complex comprises two hundred townhouses and three hundred apartments that originally hosted athletes participating in the 1982 Asian Games. The units were later sold to the public.

The project is a dense array of two- to four-storey buildings clustered in various configurations on a fourteen-hectare site. The plan separates pedestrians and vehicles, privileging a network of walkways operating both on the ground and through bridge-like connections linking upper levels. Larger semi-public open spaces accommodate vegetation; individual units have private balconies and open-air terraces above and yards carved out from the space between structures below. The concrete-and-brick structures are faced in cost-effective Jaisalmer stone, sourced from Rajasthan, with different patterns distinguishing each unit type. A dining hall at the complex’s centre became a commercial and community space after the games ended.

The Asian Games Village’s intricate layout of block-like forms simultaneously recalls 1960s megastructural projects like Moshe Safdie’s Habitat ’67 in Montreal and the fabric of traditional Indian bazaars. In its attention to shade and airflow, the project responds carefully to New Delhi’s climate while developing a modular and flexible strain of Indian modernism.

This series consists of site plans and perspective drawings, and a rendering of part of the complex.