PORTFOLIO Elements of Urban Design Filling up the Urban Void : In Case of Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover Income Tax, Ahmadabad
Jugal Bhatt | PUD20154 | CEPT University
Studio Brief Studio : 2 Elements of Urban Design Tutor : Tapan Shah Instructors : Brijesh Bhatha, Kiran Keswani, Vipuja Parmar, Tapan Shah
P R E FA C E The studio 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. Hence the studio will focus on the study and representation of the key urban elements in cities and will be structured in multiple modules running through the semester, each culminating with an exhibition of the outcome. These modules will significantly focus on effectively capturing and communicating the spatial qualities of the urban built environment. Module 1 will involve perceiving and representation of the key elements of urban design. The premise is that building types, urban blocks, streets and public open spaces form the key elements that come together to make any functional urban space. The exercises in this module will enable student with methods to study each element and how they contribute to the scale, form, character and their relationship with the larger urban context. Module 2 will be the final exercise which will involve design of public places The learning outcome of the studio are: to prepare design drawings to graphically communicate the key spatial characteristics of an existing urban built environment with focus on its elements and prepare a design for a given urban area in the form of a framework plan, design analysis and 3-dimentional illustration to represent the design. As a student specifically in the moduel-1 the focus was more towards exploring the informality in the Indian public realms. Rajasthan was taken up as a focused region to explore some of these examples related to the focused area like Ghnata Ghar of Jodhpur and market streets from the Udaipur and Jaipur.
TABLE OF CONTENT Preface : Studio Brief
1. 2. 3. 4.
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Approach Methodology and Modules Major Emphasis
Elements of Urban Design
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1a. Building Typology 1b. Streets 1c. Public Open Spaces 1d. Urban Blocks
Synthesis : Built Density Compiling the learnings and analysis of the all components and put together to make the genesis out of the each one.
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Urban Place-making : Filling up the Urban voids
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Project Identification Site Analysis, Concept, Strategies Design Proposal and Conclusion
Learnings Focuses upon method of conducting two modules complements the overall idea of the studio and design process.
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1a.
Elements of Urban Design : Building Typologies
The exercise is designed to develop method of efficiently capturing various attributes of the built form based on the various typologies and its relationship with the context and ground. Exercise requires student to identify, categories and represent the prevailing building types in our cities and develop their skills to draw building footprint and its three3D form that also abstracts architectural language along with it relationship to ground. Students are require to identify two buildings out of the none typologies, representing one from Indian context and one outside the Indian context. Buildings are represented through isometric view with the in scale figure ground diagram.
Dessau
Panchkula
Kolkata
New York
Denver
Tokyo
Curitiba
San-Fransico
California
Bangkok
Ahmadabad
Lukhnow
Seattle
Mumbai
5 Countries : 13 Cities : 9 Typologies : 18 Buildings
18 No. Total Buildings
9 No. Total Typologies
World Cities
BUILT FABRIC : Through World Cities “ The city is a place where no need to wait for the next week to get answers to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar once to listen again”
-Margaret Mead
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I ndependent Bunga low Cities : Ahmadabad, Lavande Countries : India, Canada
The study of building typology starts with the smaller unit focuses more on quality of living that is independent bungalow. It’s a zone where every city has their diversity presented. The major thing to observe in this typology is the percentage of edge porosity and the fanistrartion possibilities. Both the partially fanistrartion and open access houses have their benefits.
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Residential Apar t m en t s Cities : Mumbai, Tokyo Countries : India, Japan
This residential typology focuses upon how the toady’s modern concept of living vertically implemented in the two densely packed neighborhoods in the world. The typology is incomplete without the intervention of podium or the layer of mixed use massing at the ground level. That makes the module it self feasible and flexibility to repeat.
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Of f ice Buildings Cities : Mumbai, New York Countries : India, U.S.A.
The office building typology has diverse array of scales, depending on the site dimensions as well as the urban context of the any city. In case of cities like New York, the setbacks are absent and the building facades directly encloses the street envelop. There is a no proper definition of front and back facade of the building. In the Indian context there is a considerable level of setbacks, that makes such public building less interactive with street envelops. BUILDING TYPOLOGIES : ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN CEPT UNIVERSITY
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H otels Cities : Lukhnow, Denver Countries : India, U.S.A.
The hotel buildings are the unique in the overall urban form of the any city. In terms of scale and dimensions it differs from the rest of the others. The sheer Difference is in the scale and the facade language makes it different and unique from other ones. The size of the footprints also determines the holding capacity of the building.
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Commercial Hos p it a ls Cities : Mumbai, San Francisco Countries : India, U.S.A.
Commercial hospital buildings are the second unique typology in the city’s urban form. It generally has simple fanistrartion patterns but the various proportion of heights makes them unique. Generally such typology of buildings are observed more in a liner footprint size because it accounts more possibility of accommodating wards and beds.
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C ivic Buildings Cities : Ahmadabad, Seattle Countries : India, U.S.A.
The civic building is the unique buildings in the urban context, many times considered to be an urban marker in the context, with either play in the facade treatment or fanistrartion. The scale and proportion as well as adjoining open space make sure that the urban envelop around it forms an enclosure around the public open space.
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S chool Buildings Cities : Panchkula, Dessau Countries : India, Germany
The another part of the civic buildings or the urban markers are the education institutes in the Indian context the major component of the school buildings that is open spaces are planned separately. But in the other example that is bahuahs which is planned within the circulation pathways and open spaces. That makes the buildings more interactive.
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S h opping Mall Cities : Kolkata, Bangkok Countries : India, Thailand
Shopping malls are the creative urban inserts inside the urban fabric of the cities. They act as a major landmarks for the city, due to its scale it gives identity to the area. Generally in both the context such buildings require active interactions with the ground that is why maintaining the setbacks there are still removal of compound walls can be seen.
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Bus Stand Cities : Ahmadabad, Curitiba Countries : India, Brazil
Bus stops are the transit hubs located along the road, either at the designated corners at the edge of the serving lanes. The major component of the infrastructure are the loading and unloading bays and the circulation around it. Based on the footprint size of it the location and the capacity of bus routes are decide. They are generally free from setback and other controls.
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Learnings : Building Typology The study of building typology elaborates a point that distribution of such typologies plays a very crucial role in defining the fabric and urban form of the city. The whole above study can be concluded by the following three major learnings or inferences from therm : I. There has to be a proper attention towards the left over or the space in between the building. II. It is extremely important to understand how much important is the ground floor of the building to create interaction. III. Fanistrartion of the building also plays a major role depending upon the typology and level privacy requirement. BUILDING TYPOLOGIES : ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN CEPT UNIVERSITY
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Elements of Urban Design : Streets
Streets The exercise is designed to develop strategic understanding of the various attributes regarding streets and its functional role as a city’s important public space. The exercise requires students to identify and represent one street with distinct characteristics and develop their skill to draw its three dimensional form and morphology to abstract the life on street and its character. As a part of selection the students are require to select the one street from the global and another one from the regional context. Additionally the other parameters like physical envelop, porosity and building ground floor usages are analyzed to locate it in the surroundings.
S T REETS 01. Tripolia Gate Road, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India 02. Grand Canal, Venice, Italy, Europe
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Tr ipolia Gate Ro a d City : Old City, Udaipur State : Rajasthan
Tripolia Gate Road, Udaipur Its an old town market street located at the center of the old town of Udaipur. Connected by the multiple major city level urban markers l the street has local market character in it. Largely surrounded by mixed use commercial shops with buildings shaped in respect to slop
like Jagdish Temple, Clock Tower and Lake city place pe and street morphology.
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Inference In the Indian context informality plays a major role in defining the public spaces like streets and chowk. Specifically in streets the ground floor usage and its porous nature highly depend upon its treatment to ground floor construction.
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Grand Canal Venice Italy
Grand Canal, Venice Grand canal is considered as highway for the Venice. Located at the outer ring of the city with the widest width in comparison to the oth airports and city centers for the Venice, that serves as a lifeline for the city. Along the stretch surrounding land use is largely focused on
her canals. It connects the major urban markers like institutional and residential usages.
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Inference Due to the difference in the morphology and treatment to the surrounding edges in respect to the presence of water, the porosity around the edges are experienced very less. That can be camouflaged by the variety of openings, balconies on the building facades as a interactive elements. STREETS & PUBLIC OPEN SPACES : ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN CEPT UNIVERSITY
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Elements of Urban Design : Public Open Spaces
Public Open Space The exercise is designed to develop strategic understanding of various attributes regarding the Public Open Spaces such as scale, location & accessibility. The exercise requires the students to identify and represent one important public open space with distinct characteristics and develop their skills to draw three dimensional form that can abstract the character of in the life of public space. Additionally the other parameters like physical envelop, porosity and building ground floor usages are analyzed to locate it in the surroundings.
P U BLI C OPEN SPACE 01. Ghanta Ghar Chwok, Jodhpur, Rajasthan, India
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Ghanta Ghar Chowk City : Old City, Jodhpur State : Rajasthan
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Transition Gateway Towards the Chowk
Interactive Base wall of the Clock Tower
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Elements of Urban Design : Urban Blocks
The exercise is designed to develop strategic understanding of various attributes regarding Urban Blocks and it components -Building Types, Streets and Spaces between buildings. The exercises requires students to identify and represents the prevailing urban blocks in our cities and develop their skills to draw these blocks and its three-dimensional from that abstract the character of the blocks. Students are require to select two blocks. One is from the Indian context and one is from the global context outside India. The two blocks then analyzed through the building use and figure ground diagrams.
U RBAN BLOCKS 01. Badi Choppat, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India 02. Ferry Point, Hongkong, China
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Badi Choppat City : Old City, Jaipur State : Rajasthan
Badi Choppar, Jaipur The block is located at the junction where the old and new development meets, its a combination of low rise (G+3) to high rise (G+50) built blocks across the block. It a planned insert in a middle of the organic road network. The major attribute of the block is its road netwok. Based on the variety of characteristics the nature and the social life around it varies.
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Interconnected Streets
Chopats as a Urban Markers
Inference In this urban block interconnectivity of the street plays a role of a protagonist to the overall context. The major character and definition of the block has been established by the street that goes through from the center of the block known as the badi chopar road. The commercial spine along the edge of the street and at the center of the block is largely responsible behind the vibrant atmosphere around the street. It acts as a major urban marker for the city as well for block. URBAN BLOCKS : ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN CEPT UNIVERSITY
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Fe r r y P o i n t City : Hongkong Country : China
Ferry Point, Hongkong The block is located at the junction where the old and new development meets, its a combination of low rise (G+3) to high rise (G+50) built blocks across the block. It a planned insert in a middle of the organic road network. The major attribute of the block is its road netwok. Based on the variety of characteristics the nature and the social life around it varies.
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Shopping Street
Junctions and Building Corners
Inference In this urban block the streets run through parallel to the built form are vehicular friendly and perpendicular to these streets are pedestrian dominated informally decorated tertiary streets. The difference in nature and character of these streets makes variety of definition of the parts and parcels inside this urban block. Similarly the variation in therms of building heights varies as per the change in density is also responsible in making the definition of the various envelops inside the block. URBAN BLOCKS : ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN CEPT UNIVERSITY
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Synthesis : Built Density
The synthesis week is design as a week of compilation in which the groups compile all the work that done till now on a specific topic. Built density is an attribute that can represent, how much built area is covered under the certain stretch or a block. The study focuses upon understanding the attributes and the variables of such block in which the built density is varying from 40% -80%. In which the various studied urban blocks are categorize in the cluster of four and then analyzed in terms of their average heights, built to open ratio and their built characters through 3D and two dimensional maps. The data is also being represented to statistical analysis on graph as well.
BUI L T DENSITY Its is the factor connected with the urban blocks, it largely talks about the building footprint sand its ratio compare to the block area.
S yn t hesi s -2021 Built Density in Urban Blocks In case of World Cities
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Design of a Public Place - Filling up the Urban Void : Ahmadabad
The second module of the semester focuses upon the application of the all collected analysis and learnings of the moduel-1 that is more related to understanding the elements that makes the complete urban fabric of the any city. In this module the students are require to identify a problem or a project related to design of public place inside the any city of the choice. Here the mo-duel two focuses upon the sensitive issue of underutilized potential of the spaces beneath the flyover. One of the example is taken into the city of Ahmadabad to taste the selected approaches and design strategies as per the site analysis and interferences.
Re- I ma ging the Spaces U n d e r ne a t h t h e F lyovers Site : Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover, Income Tax City : Ahmadabad, Gujarat
Ashram Road AREA
Ring Radial PLANNING
Ahmadabad
INCOME TAX : Underneath Stretch of 520 Meters Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover
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F lyover a n d City Area : Ashram Road City : Ahmadabad Flyover : Secondary Transport Linkages The secondary support line in Road Network.
Flyovers act as a secondary transport link in the ring radial connectivity in the Ahmadabad city. In-spite of having in sufficient number last year AMC has proposed 35 new flyovers in the city. If we primarily focused towards the CBD area of the city, it has basically two typologies. One that goes parallel to Ashram road and one that goes perpendicular to it and meet river bridges. Surrounded by largely commercial built-forms and high density traffic lanes.
Is there a Real Need of Flyovers ? To cater to the rising high density traffics and increase in the number of vehicular congestion increases the load on the arterial roads. Delayering the traffic movements into different parts seems to be much preferable solution for the cities.
CBD : Ashram Road Citie’s financial Capital
1. Income Tax Flyover Parallel to Ashram Road.
2. Town Hall Flyover Perpendicular to Ashram Road meet river bridge.
Key Map
Ashram Road
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Proposed Flyover for next Year
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C ity L evel Concer ns Area : Jamalpur, Naranpura, Income Tax City : Ahmadabad What Happen to the Underneath Spaces ? The Spaces are Often Underutilized and make dark corners for city.
The combination of arterial roads and flyovers creates interesting junctions underneath, either these junctions space itself becomes the bottle necks or make the surrounding lanes filled with spillover activities and vehicular congestions.
Vegetable Market
High Speed Traffic Junction
Jamlapur Junction
AEC Junction
01.Increase in No. of Dead Corners
02. Largely Utilized for Parking
03. Hub of the Nuisance Activities
Town Hall Flyover
Shreyas Flyover
Jamalpur Flyover
The spaces are unplanned and leave up to as per the use by peoples perception and demand.
The majority of the spaces are utilized for the parking only to manage the parking congestion.
It also creates messy and dark corners underneath and their spillovers makes the lane overcrowded.
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Underutilization of Spaces Each flyover has acres of underutilized spaces below them.
In the city there are 15 flyovers, due to the unplanned use of the underneath spaces the majority of the spaces are not utilized as per the desired usage. That is why almost 20-25 acers of underneath spaces are still underutilized. Many times traffic congestion and encroachment to the surrounding lanes are demonstrative of the situation and mess that has been created underneath the flyover. The constant increase in the traffic pressure increases the traffic congestion and decrease the quality of life around that area. That is why it is really important to de-layer the transport movements in terms of segregating the pedestrian, vehicular and bus movements. In many cases BRTS (Janmarg) act as a ray of hope to solve this situation. In which the designated lane for the public transport in a way solving the congestion problem. That is why it is important to utilize the underneath spaces to create important urban marker as well as establish an opportunity to delayer the movements.
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1.67
Acers
Total Spaces underneath Flyover
Acers
Average space underneath the flyover
A Failed Initiative by A.M.C.
Town Hall Flyover : Towards Ashram Road
Town Hall Flyover : Towards River Bridge
In the city there is a history of naming the flyover based on the people who contributed to the freedom movement. The surfaces underneath the flyover were painted in a similar theme to
Make them part of the city. The major idea behind this initiative is to activate the underneath dead spaces and make them live and vibrant so it can be use as a active urban realm.
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Vi s i on S t atement Site : Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover, Income Tax City : Ahmadabad
Vision Statement : ‘Filling up the Urban Void of the city’ Making an active public realm for the neighborhood and city.
Respond
Enhance
Uplift
Responding the Context
Act of Public Gatherings
Lifting the Community Spirit
Filling up the Urban voids, by carving out spaces that responds to the surrounding character with the combination of public gathering act and vibrant painted surfaces, which can facilitate and uplift community spirits and identities.
What is the Need of the Hour?
The Spaces are Often Underutilized and make dark corners for city.
It’s time to fill up this Urban Voids : underneath the bridge spaces, inside the spaces to make this spaces as a active public realm for the city. Such spaces should be efficiently design and cater to the multiple usage as per the requirement of the neighborhood as well as of the city. Implementation of such ideology can generate the active community spaces for the city and such places can be given back to the community as per their usage.
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Demonstration Site : Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover, Income Tax Making an active public realm for the neighborhood and city.
Identified Stretch for Intervention
Located on the western part of the city.
520 Meters
Site & Surrounding
Located on the highly commercialized edge on the western edge of river Sabarmati.
Total Stretch : 820 Meters
North : Institutional Built Use
East : Dedicated Commercial Built Use
Identified Stretch : 520 Meters
South : Mixed Use Built Use
West : Dedicated Commercial Built Use
The stretch is located parallel to the Ashram road, with the high density two way traffic lanes on the both side. Out of the total stretch of 820 meters total underneath stretch of 520 meters is identified for the intervention. The stretch is a combination of total two high speed traffic underneath junction and two intermediate traffic junctions. The surrounding context is highly commercialized with majority high rise commercial and mixed use towers. The reason behind taking this newly constructed flyover is to utilize the existing facilities of walking lanes and concrete parking decks.
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A na ly zi ng the Existing Sit e a n d S u r rou nd ing s Site : Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover, Income Tax City : Ahmadabad
19.66 Meters wide Underneath Stretch
The existing stretch is enough wide to accommodate the activities like public parking and central pedestrian lane for walking.
25.66 Meters wide Turnings
There is a unnecessary wide turnings are there as a part of the intermediate junctions catering to the two lanes on the both sides. INFERENCES i. ii. iii. iv.
Require to reduce the traffic speed to make it is easy to approach. Important to create safe pedestrian cross overs. Incorporating the bottle necks into the design proposal to make it holistic. Important to delayer the pedestrian movements against the transport movements.
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8.5 Meters wide surrounding lane
The adjoining lane of the underneath spaces are two way fast-moving lanes with that experiences high traffic density throughout
1.0 Meter wide adjoining footpath
There is a foot-path adjoining the lane catering to the daily commuters along the stretch of the Ashram road.
Primary Traffic Flow
Bottle Neck Junctions
Secondary Traffic Flow
Bus Stops No Connectivity
Pedestrian Movement
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S i te C onc er ns vs. Conce p t u a l O bje ct ive s Site : Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover, Income Tax City : Ahmadabad Issue Identified
Underutilized Concrete Spaces
Objective
Vs.
Activating the underneath spaces with the various acts of public gathering can activate such spaces into vibrant and active public realm.
The spaces underneath the flyover is just utilized for the parking purpose. That makes them the large hub of many nuisance activities. Issue Identified
Poor Pedestrian Connectivity
In-spite of having the potential points where the continuous connectivity can be establish, at many places there was a gap observed .
Assign function & make it Vibrant
Objective
Vs.
Connecting the Surrounding lanes
Making the surrounding lane as a part of the proposal can make the proposal interactive and more connected to the edges.
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Issue Identified
Unsafe Pedestrian Cross Overs
Vs.
Pedestrian Friendly Connectivity
Establishing the safer raised or on the ground pedestrian connectivity will be helpful to establish through fares from one end to another.
Issue Identified
There is substantial amount of height available underneath but no use or the underutilization of it creates dead functions around it.
AHMADABAD
Objective
There is no provision or place for the pedestrians to cross from one and to another from the various points of public transport nodes.
Underutilized the Height Potential
INCOME-TAX
Objective
Vs.
Potential Division of Volume
Making use of these potential spaces and use it for either pedestrian cross overs or for dividing the programmatic functions into parts. FILLING UP THE URBAN VOID -AHMADABAD : ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN CEPT UNIVERSITY
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C onc ept u al D esign & Stra t eg ies Site : Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover, Income Tax City : Ahmadabad
Conceptual Strategy : ‘Not only City but Neighborhood as well’ Responding to neighborhood and encourage community participation are the key strategies.
Re-Arrange
Responding the Context
Connect
Give Back To Community
Act of Public Gatherings
Lifting the Community Spirit
As a conceptual strategy the aim is to create spaces with diverse nature and which should respond to the derived programs from the neighborhood. That should also increases the community participation in the proposal.
Neighborhood Level
Active Edges
City Level
Possible Stakeholders to Engage As the space is located in between the stretch of commercial, mixed use residential and institutional. That invites and opportunity to plan for the multiple stakeholder interactive proposal. That includes the following stakeholder: ‘Commercial Service Class People, Residential Dwellers, Surrounding Institution Students, City Dwellers’
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Stages of Conceptual Strategy Responding to neighborhood and encourage community participation are the key strategies.
Phase : 1 - Formation of Programmatic Spaces To activate the dead spaces require daily, weekly and monthly based programs and programmatic interventions. The major part of this phase is to derive the activities based on the built use of the neighborhood level activities.
Phase : 2 - Conceptual Approach Derived from the Site Study The second step is to derive various approaches from the site study, decide what to retain and how much neighborhood connectivity can be establish in the future proposal.
Phase : 3 - Formation of Design Strategies The derive inferences from the phase-1,2 will be helpful to form the stand in the future proposal and then these decision can be converted into the design strategies. That will be helpful to stay focus while master planning the stretch.
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P ro gra mm atic Spaces Site : Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover, Income Tax City : Ahmadabad Multi-functional Display Zone
Gujarat Vidyapeeth The spaces can be utilized to host the monthly, weekly and daily exhibitions throughout the space. So the surrounding institutes can take advantage of that.
Painting Club Cafe
Space for Food Wagons
Painting Walls and Drawing Competitions
Prevailing Food Zone Due to the Presence of surrounding commercial offices
Vividh Bharti - 96.7 FM A Display area that will host various collaborative exhibitions
To continue the initiative of painting the underneath surfaces of flyover a permanent set up , where the collaborative activities will take place.
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To cater to the surrounding food stalls a designated space will be provided in a form of food wagon zone, a n active corner.
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My Bike or E.V. Zone Less Availability of Local Transport No medium for the people to commute from one station to another transport medium.
Such zone will as a station , which will be helpful for the commuters along the stretch of the CBD.
Awareness & Campaign Court
Formal Seating Courts
COVID-19 Test Center Lack of Public Spaces
COVID-19 Test Center Lack of Public Spaces
Less Availability of Local Transport
The space will be dedicated for the people to gather around either for the political rally or any kind of political debate for the city dwellers.
The surrounding areas are also lacking in terms of formal space for seating. Such variety of seat outs inside the plaza s will cater to that.
No medium for the people to commute from one station to another transport medium.
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D esi gn S t rategies & Elem en t s Site : Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover, Income Tax City : Ahmadabad
Design Strategy : 1
Design Strategy : 2
Create Pedestrian Cross Overs
Raised foot-over and Level Up spaces
Connection to the Neig
The efficiently planned raised or along the ground pedestrian cross overs will be useful and safe element to establish the one end to another end through-fares perpendicular to the underneath spaces.
Such elements will be helpful to contribute in two ways. One they will continue the flow of the pedestrian connectivity from one end to another. Secondly it will helpful to delayer the pedestrian activity as well.
Connection to the surrounding future proposal. It will invite b into the desi
Plinths
Multi-Functional plinths at various level for various programmatic functions underneath.
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Steps
Various types of steps, which will act as a transition or amphitheaters in the sunken plaza.
Walkin
Pedestrian la will act as a fa filter in respec rounding c
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Design Strategy : 4
INCOME-TAX
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Design Strategy : 5
ghboring Lanes
Attached Pedestrian Lane as a Filter
Widening the footpath & Sunken Plaza
g lane will act as a base for the better community participation ign proposal.
The attached pedestrian lane will act as a filter between the fast moving lanes on the both sides and provide designated pathway for the pedestrian.
The widening of the existing footpath will facilitate and promote the walking and its connectivity towards the step down sunken plaza with trees will act as a buffer space from the fast moving surroundings.
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Green Patch
Layer of vegetation will act as buffer zone between the fast moving lane and sunken plaza.
Foot-overs
The footover bridges and upper level decks will helpful to segregate and continue the pedestrian flow
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Conc ept u al Montages Site : Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover, Income Tax City : Ahmadabad
Filling up the Urban Void The conceptualization montage represents the initial combination of all the elements. It emphasis upon the making the spaces safe and comfortable for the pedestrians. The multinational plinth and seat out spaces are the major attractions.
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Delayering of the Activity The above montage represent the delayering of the activity and elements, the major element to emphasis upon is the filter lane for the pedestrian, including the staircases that provides the upper level connectivity, which can act as a ‘Urban Marker’ as well. FILLING UP THE URBAN VOID -AHMADABAD : ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN CEPT UNIVERSITY
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P roposed Layout Site : Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover, Income Tax City : Ahmadabad Utility Edge-1
Fore Courts
Fore Courts + A
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The Pedestrian Walkway : Filter between the Lane The 2.0 meter wide pedestrian walkway shaded by the trees will act as a filter between the fast-moving traffic and pedestrian movement. The proposed lane will be helpful to provide a through connectivity to the whole underneath stretch.
Sunken Plaza The variety of sunken plazas are planned at the levels below the ground level, to get away from the noise and chaos at the ground level. The trees also add on to the buffer in this situation.
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Active Edge
Active Edge
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Utility Edge-2
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Raised Pedestrian Cross Overs The 4.0 meter wide raised pedestrian cross over merging with the designed stretch also connects with the public transport zones act as a key asset of the proposal along the stretch.
Utilizing the Height Potential Along the stretch there is also a feature and the programmatic space division that utilities the height potential as well as continues the pedestrian connectivity throughout.
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P roposed D esign Visualiza t ion Site : Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover, Income Tax City : Ahmadabad
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Design Ideology The major emphasis is given in the proposal to connect and establish the continuous flow of pedestrian connectivity throughout the underneath stretch. For that the continuous lane of 2.0 meter attached to the fast moving traffic lane of 7.25 meters on both the side. In continuation to that at certain possible junctions safe and raised pedestrian cross overs are created by connecting them to the surrounding lane. Also the existing footpath widths are increased from insufficient width of 0.9 meters to 1.25 meters to establish a comfortable flow of pedestrian activity. FILLING UP THE URBAN VOID -AHMADABAD : ELEMENTS OF URBAN DESIGN CEPT UNIVERSITY
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Par t Deta il : I Site : Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover, Income Tax City : Ahmadabad Initial Stretch : From Parking towards Fore Court Majorly a passive public edge or a utility edge of the whole stretch.
01. Boarding Point : My Bike Cycle stand and E.V. Zone and Public Toilet
02. Ramps + Public Parking Zone
03. Food Wagon Zone
04. -0.09 Meter Multi-functional Eating & Seat-out Sunken Plaza
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Key Plan
The Redesign of Utility Lane The layout represents the detail of utility edge, where the existing facilities like parking and public toilets are re designed and given back to the neighborhood. The addition was cumulative the food stalls into food wagon zone and a step down plaza was created to accommodate the daily footfall.
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Par t Deta il : II Site : Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover, Income Tax City : Ahmadabad Intermediate Stretch : From Foot over Bridge toward Campaign Fore Court Highly activated edge due to the presence of the variety of fore courts.
05. Raised Pedestrian Cross-Over
06. +4.5 Meter High Foot Over Bridge
07. Fore Court & Raised Pedestrian Cross Over
08. Campaign Zone Gathering Space for the city Dwellers
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Managing the Pedestrian Flow in High Traffic Lane The layout represents the intermediate lane of courts along the stretch, where in front of the government building clusters four number of fore courts are planned. That will be a space to cater to the political debate or any kind of awareness campaigns at the city level Example COVID-19 testing centers.
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Par t Deta il : III Site : Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover, Income Tax City : Ahmadabad Central Spine : From Pedestrian Junction towards Pain Club Cafe The most active edge of the proposal with levels so people can participate as per their convenience.
09. Pedestrian Junction and through fare
10. -1.20 Meter Temporary Exhibition Zone
11. G+1 (+4.5 Meter.) Permanent Exhibition Zone
12. Dedicated 13. Designated Space Raised Pedestrian for NGO Activity and Walkway gatherings
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Key Plan
Active Central Spine of the Proposal The central spine of the proposal is plan with the multinational plinths, amphitheater and G+1 exhibition zones to cater to the surrounding institutional collaborations. The two way connectivity from the both end is establish from the both end to cater to the easy flow of pedestrian connectivity.
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Par t Deta il : III Site : Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover, Income Tax City : Ahmadabad Utility Edge : From Paint Cafe and Ending towards My Bike Zone The most active edge of the proposal with levels so people can participate as per their convenience.
14. Pedestrian Junction & through-fare
15. -1.20 Meter Painting Club & Cafe
16. -1.20 Meter Multi-functional Exhibition & Competition Zone
17. Public Parking Zone and Ramps
18. Boarding Point : My Bike stand and E.V. Zone and Public Toilet
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Key Plan
The Painting Club Cafe & Utility Edge The ending zones of the proposal is a combination of competition zones with the multi-functional activities and a cluster of retained infrastructure i.e. toilets, parking zones and My Bike stand for the pedestrians. The painting club cafe is a continuation of the initiative of painting the underneath surfaces of flyovers.
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E xi st i ng Section vs. Prop o s e d D e s ig n S e ct io n Site : Chandrashekhar Azad Flyover, Income Tax City : Ahmadabad
Existing Section -AA : Insufficient Footpath Width
1.0 Meter 9.0 Meter Wide Wide Existing Lane-1 Footpath
19.66 Meter 9.0 Meter Wide Wide Underneath Lane-2 Space
1.0 Meter Wide Existing Footpath
Proposed Design Section - A
1.5 Meter Wide Proposed Footpath
7.25 Meter Wide Lane-1
-1.20 Meter Down Sunken Plaza
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AA - Proposed walking Lane
7.25 Meter Wide Lane-2
1.5 Meter Wide Proposed Footpath
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Proposed Design Section - BB
7.25 Meter Wide Lane-2
2.00 Meter Wide Walking Lane
2.00 Meter Wide Walking Lane
7.25 Meter Wide Lane-1
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A Way For ward
Potential location of implementation and project feasibility
Conclusion : A Futuristic Prototype The design will act as a futuristic prototype for the city. In which many of the old or the upcoming spaces beneath the flyovers can be design like this. The major point of view to consider is the each design will be different because the programmatic and spatial approaches will be derived from the neighborhood. That will give each a different identity. The future feasibility of the project can be seen as there is a proposal of 35 new flyovers under the tank and the construction of metro also opens up wide range of prospects about treating underneath spaces.
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Learnings
Journey at a glance The studio was conducted with the formate of two modules one that gives understanding and second a chance of implementation . That combination was a key behind the successful learning curve. Also every outcome was culminated into a exhibition, hence the representative language of the urban design drawing was a paramount importance in the whole process. The first three exercises of the module one delayering the elements of the urban environment was helpful to create the clear understanding regarding its scale and proportion in city context. In continuation to that at the end four week quick design exercise in the module two was an invaluable experience. In which it was actually a exercise of testing some of the learnings and inferences on the real existing site.
In that also the in depth process of right from creating a conveying diagram to understanding and identifying the issue was a major learning curve. Still the derivation of all of it to make an create a cohesive and holistic urban design drawings and diagrams, that can convey the strong and provoking ideas to the communities and end users of the city.
Towards a New Normal ...
Elements of Urban Design | Jugal Bhatt - PUD20154 | CEPT, University
