Urban Design Work
Manoj.s PG190523
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1.Preface
Contents
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2b. Streets 2c. Open space 2d. Urban block
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3.Workshop Urban design intervention near Vastrapur lake area
2. Elements of urban design 2a. Building types
4. Social median
4a. Junction 4b. Streets Activities 4c. Parklets
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Preface
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The studio was structured as an 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 the 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 involves 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 students with methods to study eachelement and how they contribute to the scale, form, character and their relationship with the larger urban context. Module 2 final exercise which will involve the application of the abilities and skills developed in the first module through preparation of a framework plan for an urban intervention. This module focuses on preparing and representing site analysis, design strategies The culmination of this module will be to prepare a set of effective communication representation drawings for the design and the analysis.
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Elements of Urban Design 2a. Building Types
1. Civic buildings
2. Commercial buildings
Building Name :
Premabhai hall, Amedabad
Building Name :
Ground Coverage :
2060 sqmt
Ground Coverage : 6300 sqmt
Total Built-up area :
5600 sqmt
Total Built-up area : 14,500 sqmt
Anna Centenery Library,chennai
Building Name :
Building Name :
Safal Pegasus, Ahmedabad
Building Name :
Mercedes Benz,chennai
Building Name :
Apple Store, Singapore
Ground Coverage : 11,500 sqmt
Ground Coverage :
2860 sqmt
Ground Coverage :
800 sqmt
Ground Coverage :
11,500 sqmt
Total Built-up area : 25,000 sqmt
Total Built-up area :
9600 sqm
Total Built-up area :
2100 sqm
Total Built-up area :
25,000 sqmt
Museum of Modern Art, New York
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3. Mixed-use buildings
4. Commercial Hospitals
Building Name : Bapunagar Mixed use, Ahmedabad
Building Name :
Atlantis, Chennai
Building Name :
Belaroïa residential, France
Building Name :
HCG Hospital, Amedabad
Building Name :
Medanta Hospital, Gurgaon
Building Name :
circle reading hospital, UK
Ground Coverage :
2330 sqmt
Ground Coverage :
1130 sqmt
Ground Coverage :
1650 sqmt
Ground Coverage :
1100 sqmt
Ground Coverage :
3300 sqmt
Ground Coverage :
2650 sqmt
Total Built-up area :
9250 sqmt
Total Built-up area :
6860 sqmt
Total Built-up area :
5650 sqmt
Total Built-up area :
6500 sqm
Total Built-up area :
8,750 sqmtv
Total Built-up area :
4300 sqmt
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5. Shopping mall
6. Independent Bungalows
Building Name :
Himalaya Mall, Ahmedabad
Building Name :
city center mall, kolkata
Building Name:
Design Incubator, s ingapore
Building Name : Bapunagar Row House, Amedabad
Building Name :
Row house, Chennai
Building Name :
3 in 1 Housing, Sweden
Ground Coverage :
6390 sqmt
Ground Coverage :
10500 sqmt
Ground Coverage :
1200 sqmt
Ground Coverage :
260 sqmt
Ground Coverage :
235 sqmt
Ground Coverage :
320 sqmt
Total Built-up area :
15600 sqmt
Total Built-up area :
14,500 sqm
Total Built-up area :
3560 sqmt
Total Built-up area :
480 sqmt
Total Built-up area :
410 sqmt
Total Built-up area :
435 sqmt
150 m
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Elements of Urban Design 2b. Streets
St.Peters Basilica, Vatican city Edge type
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Total building edge = 540 m Total no. of entrance = 60 No. of entrance / 100m = 12
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Access to street Access to building Porous 15%
Opaque 46%
Partially Porous 39%
Legend
Visually Physically
Ground Floor Building Use
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Residential Commercial
C1 Retail C2 Hotel/ Restaurants
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Office Religious
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Institutional Open space
Institutional 12% Retail
As St. peters basilica is surrounded by low rise builings, maximun edge is given to hotels, cafe, restaurants. The entire street has well designated pedestrian space.Height of the buildings are not more than five storey. 16
Hotel 70%
16% Religious 2%
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Parry’s Corner, Chennai Edge type
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200 m
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380 m Total building edge = Total no. of entrance = 66 No. of entrance / 100m = 16
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Access to street Access to building
Opaque 31% Porous 44% Partially Porous 25%
Legend
Visually Physically
Ground Floor Building Use
150 0
Residential Commercial
C1 Retail C2 Hotel/ Restaurants
Retail 24%
Parrys corner is a prominent landmark in george town,chennai. It is porous in nature. Building use defines the height of building in this street. 18
200 m
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Office Religious
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Institutional Open space
Religious 2%
Institutional 74%
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Elements of Urban Design 2c. Open Space
Kapaleeshwarar Temple street, Tamil Nadu Edge type
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200 m
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Total building edge = 915 m Total no. of entrance = 89 No. of entrance / 100m = 10
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Access to street Access to building
Opaque 31% Porous 44% Partially Porous 25%
Legend
Visually Physically
Ground Floor Building Use
150 0
Residential Commercial
Kapaleeswarar temple tank - Mylapore is one of the religious and public gathering space. The temple tank edge is partially porous allowing visually connectivity to the street. The temple is ancient one in the city which was built during 7th century CE. 22
C1 Retail C2 Hotel/ Restaurants
Residential 12% Hotel 4% Retail 50%
200 m
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Office Religious
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Institutional Open space
Religious 1% Commercial 7%
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Elements of Urban Design 2d. Urban Blocks
Market street, San Francisco Urban Blocks
Building Footprints
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Block Perimeter Smallest
235 m
Largest
900m
Built v/s Open Built Space
43%
Public Open Space
36%
Private Open Space
21%
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Workshop : Urban Design Intervention near Vastrapur Lake area
A potential of bond Team project : Toulouse university and MUD studio CEPT university.
We were given site is in vastrapur and asked to find a problem in public domain that needed to be resolved in the lens of urban designer. we selected a sun rise park street f serves as a major through fare which connects Drive in road and Vastrpur lake area. Major concern in developing the street is being dominated by vehicluar traffic.
Location : Vastrapur, Ahmedabad 30
Major concerns are 1. Sidewalks are encroached by vehicles and tress. 2. Hapazard movement observed across junctions 3. Lack of publicness 31
Proposal An axis to connect the metro to the neighborhood
Oppurtunities
Sun rise park street connecting Drive in road and Vastrapur lake.
Neighbourhood has robust street network and its being major through fare for residential street.
Residential neighbourhood with commenrial near to nodes.
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Existing Master plan with Built use
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Proposed Master plan
Key plan
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Existing Section
Proposed Section
Existing Section
Proposed Section
The redevelopment of the street was proposed to address the generic issues of any streets found in Indian context. A pedestrian bridge was proposed to connect the metro station and the proposed street. Street components like pedestian path and space for optional activites are added by utilising space from central median.
Proposed View 34
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Social Median
Streets for All Individual project: Design of public space, Vastrapur Selected public space for the proposal is same street that selected for workshop. Hence existing site condition i not repeated. Aim is to develop the street into a neigbourhood identity, while focusing on making it accessible to every user of the street.
The master plan identifies “key linkage” between existing site condition to be strengthed through additional infrastructure and increased safety and comfort. Currently out of 3 lanes only 2 lanes are effectively used. Hence space from lane is utilised for continuous pedestrian connections across the street. Narrowing down the lanes reduced the vehicular speed in the residential neighbourhood. Dedicated bicycle track is added to connect with existing infrastructure and large margin of green along side the track act as a safety buffer.
Pedestrian sidewalk added by utilising space from central median
By retaining median in centra which act as a traffice cal ming feature and a linear park.
Scale 1: 1750 Existing toilet
Yulu Point
Existing Master Plan
Parking
Parking
Yulu Point
Existing toilet
Social median
Selected stretch for detailing
Extended Pedestrian
Scale 1: 1750
Proposed Master Plan
Pedestrain path Vehicular path Social median Bicycle track
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Proposed section 39
Concept
Design Strategies
Providing safety for all street users
Activating the streets to improve community interaction.
Adding more traffic calming features
Various necessary activities and optional activities are added in considering the surrounding building use and existing edge condition. 40
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Proposed Street design
Crosswalks are added in stratergic location on an average of 100m once which facilitates people to use the median space and safety for ones who passes one edge to another.
Table top crossing is created in junction which also reduces the speed of vehicle and ensures safety for pedestrians.
Activities like linear park, kids play area, street vending, plaza, informal seating are added to draw surrounding to use the median space.
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Junction Design
curbs are extended to reduce the distance of crosswalk
Plan
Coloured lanes to distinguish bicycle track and other lanes.
Proposed junction
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A view showing the proposed junction with though of material on different paths. Junction have been redesigned to minimize the traffic cocflicting movements and ensure smooth movement for pedestrians and bicyclist.sidewalks and dedicated bicycle track have been provided with adequate width and crossing is raised to level of +150mm which makes the road crossings easier and also it act as a traffic calming measure.
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Street Details - Activities
A linear park is designed equipped with kids play area, seating spaces responding to the residential area alongside and also with continuous bicycle track along the edges.
Along the stretch, dedicated space for street vendors and bicycle stand are given.
On street bike parking and parallel parking
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Social median
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Street Details - Activities
Kids play area
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Street vending with seating area
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Parklets - Activities
Existing Street condition
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Proposed Street condition
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A view showing the central median with activities . Median space which was not facilitating any activities and partly used as an parking space which has been transformed by adding supporting activities to activate the 10m wide space. Major components being bicycle track and a linear park for the residential neighbourhood.
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The studio served as an introduction to urbanism and the position of the urban designer in context of the built environment and its tangible and intangible aspects. The structure of the studio from exploring the various components of the public realm, to interactive student exchange program, finally terminating into an individual led design proposal was helpful in many ways. Initiating from the case studies and documentation, their role was
Learnings
imperative in facilitating the understanding of nuances that the public realm and its various components carry and the apparent impact in shaping the behavior of its users and the character of the space. It helped in defining a comprehensive perspective, across different contexts and establish rationale behind the similarity or the dissimilarity associated with these case studies. French workshop was the highlight of the semester that provided a further insightful experience through direct and indirect cross learnings, while dealing with a common project, along with the students from altogether different geographical and social context. Meanwhile, subsequent input lectures hosted by the in-department and external faculties helped furthermore to form a knowledge base before initiating individual design proposal.
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The detailed learnings and skillsets acquired from the aforementioned exercises helped in formulating a proposal in the tune with the understanding of the urban elements, their relevance, and the impacts that the intricacies of the design would bear on its spatial environment and end-users. One of the skillsets, that was specifically chiseled, that I would stress upon will be the focus on narration of the proposal, and its importance to make the design legible to the laymen.
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