PORTFOLIO Anisha Madan| PG180094
Urban Design Works | Place Making Studio | Spring’19
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Studio Brief
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Elements of Urban Design Building Types Urban Blocks Streets & Open space
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UD Master Plan: Re-imagine sector-16 of Gandhinagar
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Learnings Module 1 Module 2
Analysis & Stake Concept Master Plan Illustrations Urban Block Strategy Streets & Open Space Strategy
CONTENTS
The place making studio is a series of weekly exercises carried
out in two modules during spring’19 semester-2 of urban deign
master’s
program
at
CEPT
University,
Ahmedabad.
The following work is structured as introduction to urban design
representation and how it is used as a means of design thinking. The premise is that urban design is best understood and expressed
through study and representation of the built urban environment. Module1: The isometric illustrations will provide a multidisciplinary
“First Life, then spaces, then buildingsthe other way around never works” - Jan Gehl
approach towards the three main elements of urban design, which are- Building types - Urban blocks
- Streets and Open spaces.
The module will significantly focus on effectively capturing and communicating the spatial qualities of the urban built environment.
Module2: The final segment will focus on the urban design master plan of sector-16, Gandhinagar. The is re-imagined into an integrated liveable
and sustainable design of urban blocks, streets and open spaces.
uilding Type
Introduction The work focusses on the methods of effectively capturing various attributes of building types such as form and its relationship to ground. Identification and representation of 7 building types with 3 buildings each, one from Ahmedabad, one from India (outside Ahmedabad) and one from outside of India.
1. Commercial Hospitals The ground setting of the hospitals in India differentiate from that in Kuwait, in terms of surrounding building types, compound wall provision, shaded parking lots, setbacks and building edges.
Ambulance Parking
G+5
G+5
Medical Shop
Exit Connecting Emergency Entrance bridge
No compound wall
40 0 20
2
80 mts
Entry/ Exit
Surface Parking
G+4
Rooms facing Kuwait bay
Parking
40 0 20
80
160
mts
10 40 0 20
80
mts
Building Name:Medilink Hospital, Amedabad
Building Name: Sir Balaji Hospital, Delhi
Building Name: Hisham Hospital, Kuwait
Ground Coverage: 625 sqmt
Ground Coverage: 5625 sqmt
Ground Coverage: 3750 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 1890 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 22500 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 15000 sqmt
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2. Schools/ Educational Institutions
3. Religious Buildings
Educational Institution buildings grounds in a residential neighbourhood for the ease and safety of the children and other users. The physical setting of the schools are surrounded by 1.5, 2m walkway in Indian scenario and 3m walkway in United Kingdom.
In Indian context, the religious buildings are surrounded mostly by low-rise residential building types and mixed-use commercial building types. On the other hand, the St. Paul Church, England sits in an open park connected to main loop of road (2m wide pedestrian walkway).
Shaded play area
2m wide footpath
6m front margin
Play area
G+8
3m wide footpath
G+4
11m wide side margin
3m rear margin
Entry/Exit
Entry/ Exit
10 40 0 20
G+3
9m side & 6m front margins
18m wide road
80
mts
40 0 20
2m high boundary wall
Entry/Exit
mts
80
Building Name:Shree Vidyanagar, Amedabad Building Name: Friends Academy, Mumbai Ground Coverage: 550 sqmt Total Built-up area: 2250 sqmt
Ground Coverage: 830 sqmt Total Built-up area: 7200 sqmt
On-street parking
No compound wall
0 20
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80
mts
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40
80
2m wide footpath
mts
Open green spaces
Seating areas
1.5m wide walkway
2m wide footpath
6m wide walkway
0 20
40
Multiple entrances
Entrance 1
80
mts
0 20
40
80
Accessible to all
mts
Building Name: North Bolten College, UK
Building Name: Jain Temple, Amedabad
Building Name: Chintpurni Temple, Sonepat
Building Name: St. Paul Church, England
Ground Coverage: 7200sqmt
Ground Coverage: 435 sqmt
Ground Coverage: 720 sqmt
Ground Coverage: 550 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 48000 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 690 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 1240 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 550 sqmt
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4. Residential Apartments Mixed-Use
5. Residential Apartments (Mid/High-Rise)
Mixed-use residential apartments are most common building type in Indian context. The buildings sets near commercial, residential and office buildings. Generally, the ground and first floor has retail shops, cafe, and general stores etc., which activates the edges and makes the spaces safe and interactive.
In Indian context, high- rise residential apartments have stilt-parking and rear surface parking on ground floor with separate entry and exit gates. The apartments have planters at the frontage as grade separation whicn act as an imaginary compound wall.
Rear parking
Rear parking G+10, Exit & stilt parking 13units/ floor 6m wide side margins
6units/floor
Entry/Exit
Rear Balconies 5units/floor parking overlooking street
Entrance
Plaza
Basement Parking
G+6, 13units
32 Apartments 28 storeys 83.8m high
G+5 podium
Rear community greens
G+5
Retail+Offices
Retail G+1
Parking in frontage
On street parking
10 40 0 20
Balconies at building frontage
80
mts
10 40 0 20
12m wide street
80
mts
Outdoor seating
10 40 0 20
Parking at frontage Entrance
80
mts
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20
40
20m front margin
80
mts
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20
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80
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80
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Building Name: Prasad Apartment, Amedabad Building Name: Jascon Apartment, Ranchi
Building Name: White Lion House, London
Building Name: Redcon Apartment,Amedabad Building Name: Kanchanjunga, Mumbai
Building Name: The Shoreham, Chicago
Ground Coverage: 3735 sqmt
Ground Coverage: 1400 sqmt
Ground Coverage: 1683 sqmt
Ground Coverage: 1260 sqmt
Ground Coverage: 440 sqmt
Ground Coverage: 1800 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 8300 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 3500 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 5100 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 4680 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 12000 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 62403 sqmt
Plot Size: 21m X 21m
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6. Independent Bungalows
7. Office Buildings
Independent Bungalows sits beside wide roads varying from 15m-30m with indoor shaded parking areas. The buildings are surrounded by other residential bungalows with wide footpaths at the frontage which gives a sense of order, place, continuity and belonging.
The office building types are not surrounded by compound walls and have various enteries to the plot. The building sits with 6m side and rear margin and have minimum 15m wide frontage for plantation, seating and parking area.
Rear margin 2.4m
G+1, 4BHK
6m front & side margin with parking
Independent Entrance
2.4m wide footpath
G+2
Drop-off
Rear greens
8m front margin
4m wide sidewalk
G+4
To basement
2m wide footpath
13 storeys
Exit
15m wide frontage 3m wide footpath
10 40 0 20
30m wide road
80
30m wide road
BRTS lane
mts
10 0 20
40
80
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40
80
10 40 0 20
mts
3m wide footpath Entrance plaza
6m side margin Entrance
80
mts
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20
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80
mts
10 40 80 0 20
mts
Building Name: Arpit Bungalow, Amedabad
Building Name: Punj House, Delhi
Building Name: Robie House, Chicago
Building Name: SIHL, Nehrunagar, Amedabad Building Name: Motilal Oswal, Mumbai
Building Name: JSW Office, Berlin, Germany
Ground Coverage: 110 sqmt
Ground Coverage: 695 sqmt
Ground Coverage: 485 sqmt
Ground Coverage: 230 sqmt
Ground Coverage: 1950 sqmt
Ground Coverage: 7210 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 220 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 2320 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 1214 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 1050 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 27870 sqmt
Total Built-up area: 48000 sqmt
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rban Block
Introduction The work focusses to develop strategic understanding of various attributes regarding Urban Blocks and its components: - Building Types - Street - Spaces between buildings. 2 urban blocks (one from the city of Ahmedabad, and one as Global example) are identified from our cities to re-draw these blocks and its three-dimensional form that abstracts the spatial character of the blocks.
Ahmedabad Law Garden Area Urban Blocks
43 m
25 m
Variety of liveable community. Independent bungalows ,semi-detached houses and apartments reside together.
Municipal natural park as an open public space, allows people from all communities, caste and gender
328 m
130 m
Block Perimeter
Smallest Largest
0
50
100
200
mts
136 m 916 m
Building Footprints
34%
Built v/s Open
Built space Public open space Private open space
0
50
22% 44% 34%
100
200
mts
22%
44%
Pedestrianisation is restricted to the builidng frontage due to on surface parking of 2-wheelers and 4-wheelers
Active building front allows visual engagement between the streets and ground floor users. 12
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England Sheffield, Devonshire Quarter Urban Blocks
25 m
56 m
Residential and retail spaces overlook the open space ensuring constant public monitoring
550 m
75 m
Mix of open space and landuse combined with various public / private spaces, create vibrant urban neighbourhood.
Block Perimeter
Smallest Largest
0
50
100
200
mts
162 m 550 m
Building Footprints
36%
Built v/s Open
Built space Public open space Private open space
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50
100
200
mts
25%
39%
25% 39% 36%
Open spaces create internal nodes that are linked by various pedestrian ways. 14
Mixed use developement and open space integrates neighborhood and reinforced the sense of place by further stitching the fabric. 15
treets & pen space
Streets- Introduction The work focusses to develop strategic understanding of various attributes regarding Streets and functional role of mobility as well as social role of being public space. The street is taken from Global context. Various techniques are identified to represent its character. Additionally, they have analysed the parameters that make the physical envelope of the street such as porosity, building ground floor use and access. Open spaces- Introduction This exercise focusses on elements of Public Open spaces such as scale, location, access, spatial configuration and use. A different type of open space - bathing space is selected, to study distinct characteristics and develop the skills to draw its three-dimensional form that abstracts the character of the life in that public space. The parameters ysed that make cal envelope of space active and
are analthe physithe public interactive.
STREET: SANATANA ROW, CALIFORNIA
Shared street with active frontage
Pedestrian walkway with outdoor seating 18
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PUBLIC OPEN SPACE: HARBOUR BATH, COPENHAGEN
The 2500 sqmt public watering place as an inherent social function. A unique urban space to primarily socialize, play and enjoy the sun.
Harbour Bath offers an urban harbour landscape with dry-docks, cranes, piers, boat ramps, buoys, playgrounds and pontoons.
Community parks for recreation, campaigning activities near harbour bath activates the city edge and redefine the city’s streetscape
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Gandhinagar
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UD Master Plan, Sector-16 Third module of the studio aims at developing the analytical, conceptual and representational abilities in preparing a Framework Plan for Sector-16, Gandhinagar area. The illustrations includes designing open spaces strategy, street network and urban block strategies, building use and type strategy culminating into preparation of a Structure Plan for the given urban area. This drawings demonstrates key characteristics of the plan and highlight the key design interventions with respect to streets, open spaces, urban blocks and building types.
PRESERVING GANDHINAGAR’S IDENTITY
Social interactions
Close to nature
Local shops
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How could Gandhinagar develop preserving it’s grounded atmosphere?
Ahmedabad
Gandhinagar
STAKE/schemes
STAKE/collage
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TRANSITION SPACES: CONNECTING INSIDE-OUT Cases of intervention in sector-16, Gandhinagar The concept is based on exploring the spaces of experience between the inner and the outer worlds; an intermediate or a third space. A series of different shared [public] spaces offer users a range of opportunities of liveability and sociability.
Design Strategies Creating life between buildings
Possibilities of walkable Opportunity of Generating Open place neighbourhood Hawker’s centre/ street & vegetation
Areas of Intervention & Activity Nodes Existing informal market
1. threshold as transition space at building edge
Existing trees: 3958nos. Preserved trees: 1782nos.
2. space between buildings
Rang manch as activity node Temples creating active node Delapitated governmental residential housing Deserted stretch of trees Commercial stretch of sector-16
at sector level 3. streets as transitional space
Key Plan: Sector-16, Gandhinagar
4. break space- public open 26
Existing sector-16 master plan Areas of intervention
Activity Nodes 27
PROPOSED DESIGN OF SECTOR-16, GANDHINAGAR Integrated Neighbourhood Parks
Concept of Hawker’s Centre
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a continuous paved walkway connected by variety of parks: children’s park, senior citizen’s park, flower park & yoga/gym park.
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Shopping and retail centre at the sector focal points to enhance trade, commerce and public interest.
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Generating Variety of Living
G+11(4bhk-3bhk) and G+8 (2bhk-1bhk) apartments with staggered built-up balconies looking onto green open spaces.
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faciltiy of open air theatre and mela ground at the sector edge to enhance public realm and preserve existing character.
Rang Manch
Creating Life Between Buildings
Provision of Door-Step Facility
G+2 retail outlets of daily-use service, designed along each block’s periphery for the ease and comfort of residents.
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subtle green spaces with facilities like playgrounds for youth, shaded network of wakways, creates an environment of safety and comfort.
Vision of Work- Live Apartments
1bhks, studio apartments, pent house for entrepreneurs, creatives, recent grads, and other workers as a part of vibrant environment- both within the block and the sector. 29
DESIGN DELAYERING
Vehicular Road Network
Pedestrian Road Network
Open Space Structure
Main vehicular road network (45-18m wide)
Connected pedestrian priority network
Softscape open green spaces
Shared space road network (24- 6m wide)
Vehicular/ shared streets
Paved surface/ Buildings
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Building Footprints
37% 63%
Built space
19%
Public open space
48%
Private 33% open space
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INTEGRATED LIVEABLE URBAN BLOCK TYPICAL RESIDENTIAL BLOCK (150 X 260) m
3m wide pedestrian street
Choice of Affordable Living
The Eucalyptus Walk
other than apartments, the block serves options of residential units with G+2, 2 & 3bhk semi-detached houses with rear parking facility
transition space connecting school and children’s park, surrounded by series of eucalyptus trees for a healthy environment.
Key: URBAN BLOCK
6m wide shared street Residential Apartments (g+8,g+11) Semi-detached houses (g+2,g+1) Parks & open spaces (600-1300sq.m.) Door-step retail stores (g+2)
RESIDENTIAL BUILDING TYPES
Safe and Comfortable Environment Type-1: Apartments G+11, 4bhk & 3bhk with stilt parking
Type-2: Semi-detached G+1, 3bhk & 2bhk with side parking
Type-3: Semi-detached G+2, 3bhk with rear parking
G+8, G+11(2,3 & 4bhk) apartments with hollow plinth for parking and community activities. 650mm high planter as grade separator for private open spaces. 32
Opportunity of Activities
shaded pedestrian pathways with connected softscape greens provide an opportunity to enjoy, play, relax and interact. 33
THE LIVING STREET the idea of living streets
The 24m wide street is designed primarily with the interests of pedestrians and cyclists in mind as a social space where people can meet and interact safely.
Eyes on Street
Residential and tage overlooking tivities and open suring public
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Retail
street section
Pedestrian 6m
Street 6m
Plaza 8m
cycle track 2m
24m ROW
street character
1 space for cafe outlets 2 shaded waiting spots 3 safer zone at night
4 shopping outlets 5 interactive zone
Opportunity of Robust Public Life
A dense- thriving mixed- use environment unfolds the opportunities of social interaction and gathering.
Key: LIVING STREET 34
Enhanced Sense of Place
Spending time walking through a neighborhood, rather than driving, helps people achieve better sense of what makes it unique.
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RANG MANCH & COMMUNITY GREENS generating community greens
Public open space for all with variety of recreational & relaxing ativities such as basketball, open air theatre, shaded seating spaces & exercise zones.
Vibrant Urban Open Space
Elevated Lush Greenscape
Rang manch & mixed- use development integrates neighbourhood and reinforced sense of place by further stiching of urban fabric
elevated open green space creates public interests, attracts youth to recreate, relax and rejuvanate.
diversity of edge conditions
streets sloping lawns for relaxing & sleeping
streets small rang manch, space for all
streets pergola & covered space Preserving Informal Economy
opportunity of reinforcing informal activities along shaded footpath to promote hawkers and vendors.
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The learning outcomes of the studio are: Module 1: learnt to graphically communicate the key spatial
characteristics of an existing urban built environment with focus on its elements- Building types, Urban blocks, streets and open spaces.
Explored the opportunitty to visualise ideas and proposals, from re-
drawing the image to 2D drawings and 3D modelling with the help of softwares like Photoshop, Indesign and Illustrator.
Module 2: While preparing the framework for sector-16, Gandhinagar; learnt the ability to choose and develop appropriate
means for specific stages of a project; master at least one representational method.
Furthermore, enjoyed the process of identifying the variety of activities happening around different urban spaces.
LEARNINGS
Anisha Madan | PG180094 anisha.pg180094@cept.ac.in | 9711791343 CEPT University | Place Making Studio, Spring’19