A Street Design proposal for Smart City Bhopal, India.

T.T.NAGAR SQUARE

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DUSHEHRA MAIDAN ROAD

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Make Your City Smart – Bhopal

Presentation By: Ar. Shashank Goyal

An Integrated Approach to City Planning

GOARCH Studio

PART 2 : DUSHEHRA MAIDAN ROAD NOTE :All Images unless stated are Graphical Illustration by Author

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PUBLIC COMPLEX

Architecture | Master Planning | Interiors  

9669137471, 7999648089, goarchstudio@gmail.com B51, Janaki Nagar, Chunabhatti, Bhopal-16

PROBLEM STATEMENT PROBLEMS IDENTIFIED

With the ongoing Densification and Technological Upgradation of city Infrastructure the street is bound to witness increased traffic and human loads.

Bhopal’s Urban-scapes are flooded with parked and moving vehicles. Pedestrian Friendly Streets and Walkable Zones have became a premium in the city.

Urban Waste is carried to lakes through unmaintained and Encroached Nallahs . This is a waste of Urban Ecological resources and a threat to ‘A City of Lakes’ Identity.

Clogged Hawker Zone High Jay-Walking

Decreased Road Width No Medians, Footpath, Cycling Tracks

UNDER UTILISED ASSET Temple Complex

METRO

METRO

Insecure Pedestrian Crossing High Jay-Walking

1. Unfriendly Pedestrian walkways • No speed regulatory mechanisms • No Cycle track • Undefined walkways.

• Inadequate street lighting • No street furniture or resting spaces 2. Urban Design • Diminishing Green Cover • Lack of a holistic City image through Façade Design Guidelines, Signage's, etc.

• Disconnected Nodes of attraction • GTB Complex Court used as parking 3. Vehicular Movement: • Lane marking only in Patches • Median available only in a Patch • Lack of Information signage's

Disconnected Court

Underutilised Court Public court being used as Parking

Unsafe Streets.

Lack of Public Amenities, Street Lighting, Resting Spaces

Discontinued Avenue.

Speed Regulating Mechanism(SRM) needed for a safer pedestrian flow.

Satellite Image of Street.

(Source : Illustration by Author)

PROBLEM STATEMENT (Intersection At Rangmahal) Being at the Nodal junction of Pedestrian and Vehicular movements of New Market.

The Junction is heavily crowded.

Most of the usable space is Asphalt or parking, rendering Pedestrians UNSAFE. With the upcoming Overhead Metro line, this becomes a Sensitive zone.

UTTIPEC’s Street Design Guidelines strictly suggests to remove slip-roads for intersections of roads below 30m and Create Pedestrian-centric systems.

For roads above 30m the maximum turning radius is 12m(Suggested=3m) (Source : Pg46-49, STREET DESIGN GUIDELINES, UTTIPEC)

Undefined Zones Undefined zones at the street had resulted in chaos and Disturbed Pedestrian and Vehicular movements.

A Free Left Turn at traffic intersection makes pedestrian movement very risky: •

Conflicted Zone of Hawkers and AutoRikshaws, resulting in Pedestrian movement on Carriageways pose a Safety Issue.

Unorganised Zones (Source : STREET DESIGN GUIDELINES, UTTIPEC)

Pedestrian can not look at the oncoming vehicle • Vehicles don’t reduce speeds.

What is SMART?

URBAN STATEMENT

Smart is not an Acronym for some 5th Generation Technology. In plain dictionary terms Smart is ‘INTELLIGENT and INDEPENDENT’.

A layer of IoT Technology (Internet of Things) over the old school design philosophy of Building Sensibly, Responsibly, and Contextually, we can make our City, Personalised for Us. Let’s Take a SMART approach to Design a SMART STREET within a SMART CITY.

Sports Convention Shopping Cinema

Hotel

Shopping Cultural

Looks Smart

Cultural

Contextual Mapping of Street.

(Source : Illustration by Author)

Is actually SMART

Although A Smart Electric Pole with Solar Panels everywhere looks Smart, IT ISN’T. • • • •

Park

Business

A smart city can be considered a “Super-system” of interconnected city subsystems

This Design Solution goes ahead without getting into the details of How IoT works, since its an added layer to the solution.

Cultural

Un-ecological Battery required to store energy.

Dust within City reduces performance.

Special Maintenance required.

Heavy Solar Panels fill up an already filled URBAN skyline.

The street stretch from Rang Mahal to Palash Hotel, connects Palash Hotel, Youth Hostel, Dushehra Maidan to New Market, the Commercial centre of the city.

With proposed High-Rise Complex design on the 3.5 Acre land on the street, the proposed design integrates the Socio-Cultural functions in the vicinity to New Market’s Commercial loop.

GOAL 1: MOBILITY AND ACCCESSIBILITY

GOAL 2: SAFETY AND COMFORT

GOAL 3: ECOLOGY

Maximum number of people should be able to move fast, safely and conveniently through the city.

Make streets safe clean and walkable, create climate sensitive design.

Reduce impact on the natural environment; and Reduce pressure on built infrastructure.

PROPOSED SOLUTION “Bhopal should continue to build on its green image and reflect principles of Sustainability through holistic planning, mixdensity development and Green-space conservation.”

-Smart City Bhopal, Pg16/92

Smart City Bhopal Vision : • 24x7 city with round-the-clock activities.

• live-work-play-learn-shop • Walkable city with Pedestrian Friendly Pathways and dedicated cycle tracks • Transit Oriented Development • Intelligent street lighting • Encourage walk to work • Incorporate sustainable services Hawker Zone At Intersection

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BUS PRECINCT

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• Bicycle Tracks and Cycle Stands will be introduced to promote Public Transport and last mile connectivity.

• Street Section will be re-iterated to provide a Beautiful and Safer Pedestrian Flow, with Intelligent Street Lighting, Street Furniture, Kiosks and Public Conveniences.

• Table Top treatment will be introduced on slip roads for a safer pedestrian flow.

• Plaza for Temples and Proposed Complex will be integrated with pedestrian Footpaths.

• GTB Court is envisioned as a Public Plaza.

Complex Merges Street With the proposed Complex

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The Open Court A Public Forum

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Integrated Shopping Plaza With the proposed Complex

Pedestrian Friendly Street Design With Resting Spots and Public Amenities

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Intersection at rangmahal For Safer Pedestrian Movement

Residential Lanes Table Top Treatment for Safety

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Widening of Street To account for increased Vehicular and Pedestrian Movement

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Open Air Theatre With existing Temples

Continued Avenue.

For a confusion free 2 Vehicular Movement Satellite Image of Street.

(Source : Illustration by Author)

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INTERSECTION AT RANGMAHAL New Market attracts thousands of shoppers from the entire city.

A Seamless Pedestrian connection is made by introducing an elongated “Only Pedestrian” timer stop at the Junction Traffic Signal.

Free Left Space reserved for vehicles is given back to Pedestrian Experience and Informal Haat is redefined with Public amenities.

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EXISTING

Large Intersections are difficult for Pedestrians and Motorists to manage.

The idea is to Maximise sight distance, Reduce vehicle speeds to match sight distance, instead of enlarging the Intersection or removing obstructions.

1. Free lefts create unsafe, high-speed turns.

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2. Leading Pedestrian Intervals (LPI) are used to give pedestrians a head start entering the crosswalk.

Pedestrian safety islands are added and Free leftturn is removed.

3. Bicyclists are given a separate track intersection, avoiding mixing of zones and restricted turns making the turns safer for Bicyclists.

Painted pattern over raised footpath

5. Left and Right turns aren’t banned, They are timed with regular Transit Priority.

6. Bus Stop is moved ahead to avoid clutter at Junction

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STREET SECTION

Walkways are Public spaces that act as front steps to the City, activating Streets socially and economically.

Safe, Accessible, Lively and Well Maintained walkways enhance Public Health and Maximise Social capital.

A Multi-Purpose Zone houses Crucial Street components, in a single Zone leaving a Clutter Free Pedestrian Layout.

E.g. BUS STOP, Auto Stands, Drop Offs, Green Dividers, It acts as a customizable Buffer zone for Various City Utilities, leaving an Unobstructed Pedestrian Zone.

E.g. Street Lamps, Street Signage,

A Two way Bike lane connects Residential Boulevards to City Functions

The Walkway is Activated by Resting Spaces, Fool Kiosks, Informal Haat.

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HAWKER ZONE AT INTERSECTION

Hawkers or “micro-entrepreneurs” provide a wide variety of services and amenities to people, at convenient locations – with negligible investment and infrastructural costs.

Hawkers are given designated space within the road Right-of-Way, so that they don’t occupy the Minimum Clear 1.8 M Pedestrian Walking Zone.

Bus-Stand

Resting bench

Hawker

Street Light

Auto Stand

Dustbin

A tree shades seated pedestrian from within.

Shade Trees

Advantages of Hawker Zones on the street (Source : Street Design Guidelines, UTTIPEC)

The Walkway connecting Socio-Cultural Complex to New Market maintains its width and character over the complete stretch The connecting Footpath Proudly wears Madhya-Pradesh’s Tribal ‘Gond Art’ pattern

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BUS PRECINCT

The Street Re-Iterates itself as an activated BUS-PRECINCT with

Bus-Stand

Hawker

Resting bench

Street Light

Cycle Station Toilets

Dustbin

Shade Trees

Drinking Water

Bus Bulbs allow busses to stop without ever leaving the travel lane, A Safer and Faster way.

A Light Weighted Polycarbonate Sheet Roof over Metal Frame studded to Ground

Bus Stop Information of Busses and Metro Rolling Information of Busses and Metro (+Ad Space) Signage showing Nearby Landmarks, Map of Bhopal Metro and Bus Routes.

Source Separated Dustbins : signage for “Trash type” are made of graphic symbols – so that even illiterate people can understand how to use them.

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RESIDENTIAL BOULEVARDS

The North-East side of the Street is intersected with four Residential Lanes.

Hence, the part is designed with a Jogging Track, and a 2-Way Bicycling Track.

Minimal Resting Stops with Shade, Wifi, and Charging points are provided to cater to Pedestrians and Joggers Needs alike.

Terracotta Tiles with Traction for Cycle Tyres.

Concrete Pavers with water percolation (For Heavy Footfall)

Concrete Pavers with water percolation (For Light Footfall)

Maintaining the Pedestrian character over Zebra crossings a Raised Table Top is provided as a Speed Regulating Mechanism for Vehicles.

Typical Intersection of Neighbourhood Street and Arterial Street (Source : Urban Street Design Guide, NACTO, US)

Resting bench

Street Light

Dustbin

Shade Trees

Charging Point

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COMPLEX MERGES STREET

• At the Complex, the street merges with the Socio-Cultural Complex and Shopping Street of the Complex to formulate a real Active City Plaza.

• The Commercial Zones of the Complex are Un-walled, The Socio-Cultural Zones are accessible through security checks.

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THE OPEN COURT

The Open Court is aimed to become a Lively Public Forum of the City Centre.

24 x 7 Active Zone Interactive activities, Open Public Plays, Curated Open and Closed Exhibitions, Festive Events.

Flooring Materials

Granite Tile Flooring (Basement Below)

Concrete Pavers with water percolation

Amenities :

Kid Play Zone Hawker

Resting bench

Street Light

Drop-Off

Toilets

Charging Point

Dustbin

Shade Trees

Drinking Water

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PLAZA & O.A.T.

The Street Reforms to a Shopping Street Seamlessly joining ‘The Open Court’ to ‘The Open Air Theatre’.

The O.A.T. forms the Node for Cultural Linkage between the Complex, Street and existing Temples.

The Pedestrian movement is redirected from the Temples to Palash Hotel, Urdu Bhavan.

The Author is Hopeful that in the upcoming Master Plan for Smart City Bhopal, this Street can be connected to the Shyamla Hills Road by a Pedestrian Bridge.

The connecting Footpath Proudly wears MadhyaPradesh’s Tribal ‘Gond Art’ pattern.

STORMWATER MGMT. SYSTEM Rainwater from Roads and Walkways is flown to Planter Bed, where it rests to be absorbed by Ground.

In case of Overflow, the water flows to the city’s Drainage system via the Runoff Storm water Drainage Line.

Concrete Pavers with water percolation (For Heavy Footfall)

Concrete Pavers with water percolation (For Light Footfall)