GRD Journals | Global Research and Development Journal for Engineering | Emerging Research and Innovations in Civil Engineering (ERICE - 2019) | February 2019
e-ISSN: 2455-5703
Utilizing The Leftover Spaces under Flyover in Surat City 1Sharukh
Marfani 2Patel Smit 3Rana Nirav 4Patel Savan 1 Assistant Professor 2,3,4Student 1,2,3,4 Department of Civil Engineering 1,2,3,4 R.N.G.P.I.T, Bardoli Abstract
The population of urban area is continuously increasing nowadays. It tends to decrease the public spaces in highly populated area. There are many spaces in urban area which can be converted into different uses like urban voids i.e. leftover spaces, negative spaces etc. have huge potentials to turn the spaces into well planned, designed most effective public spaces. Filling the urban voids such as spaces below flyover gives city a new look and life, it can be possible to convert leftover spaces like edge spaces, in between spaces, below flyover spaces etc. into spaces that are beneficial to public and community. The paper will be focused on the concept of urban voids, identifying and analyzing the types of voids also filling these voids in order to create healthy, enjoyable public spaces by studying the case studies of western and European countries. Keyword- Urban Voids, Spaces below Flyover, Left Over Spaces Utilization, Public Spaces __________________________________________________________________________________________________
I. INTRODUCTION About 50% of world’s population are living in the urban areas at present. It has been estimated that this will rise up to the 70%. Many cities across the world are struggling to cope with pressure of rapidly growing population and lack of spaces available. These crowded cities deals with limited urban space and resource and to increase public space is very difficult and complicated. The unintentionally resulted unusable spaces are known as dead or negative spaces.. Spaces have been the fundamental for improving the quality of the city around us and prime importance in our lives. Urban voids are spaces which are often neglected or forgotten space in the eyes of the people. Mostly these are resulted by treating planning sites in isolation and from poor designing or spaces left under the structure. Urban voids are also caused due to inefficient decision making, poor land management, poor co-ordination etc. among decision makers and designers. A. Categories of Urban Voids 1) Planning Voids These are the voids created due to improper and insufficient planning processes. Also created from planning in isolation without understanding the fabric or structure of the city. Generally these are most visible in our cities. These voids can also be perceived using figure ground theory. Figure ground theory is the 2-D map of the urban space that shows relationship between built and unbuilt spaces which is used in planning and designing of urban area. 2) Functional Voids The dead vacant spaces in cities are called functional voids. The spaces becomes defunct or inactive when spaces are not used like it was designed and occupies precious land in cities and make environment unpleasant. 3) Geographical Voids These voids are the existing geographical features or structures in cities. Voids are created around these makes the space unusable like rives etc. B. Four Main Types of Voids 1) Edge and Buffer Voids These are results of indefinite spaces caused by actions. These leftover spaces creating dead edges and wasted potential sidewalks. Types: setback, between spaces, residual spaces, marginal spaces etc.
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