Sansad Marg Street Reimagination by Joshua Nyawach

Sansad Marg Street REIMAGINATION

SANSAD MARG STREET DESIGN KEY ISSUES

OBJECTIVES & GOALS

1Lack of clarity for pedestrian access networks 2 Pedestrian-Vehicular conflict along crossing lines 3 Crowded walkways 4 Lack of legibility 5 Inadequate social inclusion. The street design never allows for access by the disabled 6 Vehicular congestion 7 The culture has outgrown the street.

1. Provide continuity of quality pedestrian access. 2. Integrate slower design to calm down traffic and reduce congestion. 3. Implement modern dynamic and fluid street designs that respond to the demand of rapidly evolving culture. 4. Design ramps and mark zones for disabled parking to promote social inclusion. 5. Adapt visual simplicity and imageability when designing Sansad Marg. This can be achieved through clearly marking paths, outstanding landmarks, penetrable edges, and classifying districts based on hierarchy. 6. Develop universal accessibility to ease the movement of people. This will help in reducing congestion. 7. Monitored and controlled pedestrian crossing zones. The use of traffic lights to allocate crossing time to pedestrians will result into a minimal conflict between pedestrians and vehicles

Unclear pedestrian Network

Trafﬁc Congestionj

Pedestrian Vehicular conﬂict

Lack of legibility

Overcrowded Streets

double street planting

STATE BANK OF INDIA

street light walkway

dual carriage way

b protestant church

jeevan vihar building

walkway 7m

sansad marg police station

carriage way

bible hse. walkway

old court building

d .

carriage way

crossection

Walkway along Sansad Mag (Google photos 2017)

boundary line walkway

jeevan deep building

street light walkway dual carriage way

flash parking

street planting

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Jantar Mantar Bus stop (Google photos 2019)

crossection Jeevan Tara Building patel chowk Rikabganj

LEGEND BUS STOP VEGETATION ELECTRIC CHARGING STATION ZEBRA CROSSING

BASEMAP URBAN CONTEXT STUDIO

key design issues

inadequate crossing points

longer crossing points

For a two way street zebra crossing should be marked at a maximum distance 0f 60 metres apart

there is two zebra crossing points which are 389m apart along Sansad Marg. pedestrian cross through undesignated points leading to conflicts

Patel Chowk Roundabout

Pedestrians stranded on the The sidewalk next to Patel Chowk roundabout waiting to cross.

Major conflict zone for vehicles and pedestrian crossing to access the bus stops

inadequate of ramps to facilitate movement of the disabled

The difference in grades inhibits movement of disabled pedestrians Narrow and obstructed sidewalks in some places

Sidewalk adjacent to Plocie station

Lack of through way between Jeevan Vihar, Jeevan Deep and Jeevan Tara Building Inhibits permeability. Pedestrian has to Patel Chowk Roundabout to go round

LEGEND major conflict zone minor conflict zone BUS STOP pedestrainstart & exit points pedestrian movement within

Sansad Marg Police Station Entry

ZEBRA CROSSING

PEDESTRIAN TRAFFIC URBAN CONTEXT STUDIO

key design issues The main priority has been given to vehicular transport. the street has no marked cycling lane or places designated for parking bicycles. it also features a narrow sidewalk that lacks a continuous flow. three-wheeler taxi (tuk-tuk) dominates as the main means for public transport

B A There is no designated cycling lane along the streets. Currently, cyclists have to use the main carriageway which poses a great risk of accidents. setting aside a cycling lane will eliminate the constant conflicts that are experienced between motorists and cyclists.

Public Transport route

LEGEND

bus stop

vehicular access

Bicycle parking at Patel Bhavan

major conflict zone BUS STOP parking ELECTRIC CHARGING STATION ZEBRA CROSSING

vehicular traffic URBAN CONTEXT STUDIO

CASE STUDY STATE STREET, MADISON, WISCONSIN

STATE STREET REDESIGN PROJECT, MADISON, WISCONSIN

State Street overview, Winsconsin

State Street is a pedestrian zone located in downtown Madison, Wisconsin, United States, near the State Capitol. The road proper extends from the west corner of land comprising the Capitol. The State Street Design Project began in September of 2000 and concluded in November of 2001. The design process was guided by the City of Madison’s Department of Planning & Development and assisted by other departments, organizations, and private citizens. The scope of work is for the redesign of the 100 through 600 blocks of State Street, and redesign of adjacent side streets and special places along the street. The project area is designated as the State Street District, which extends for approximately one block on each side of State Street along the adjacent streets.

The designed aimed to achieve ﬂexibility, timelessness, Maintainability and Durability, sustainablity through two design approaches

Previously existing Issues . One of its major functions as a federally designated transit-oriented corridor, and its importance as a major destination for bus riders. · Its architectural legacy and signiﬁcance as an intact, visually distinct, yet eclectic, grouping of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century commercial buildings. · Its key uses include a shopping district, a cultural district for arts and entertainment, and linkage between the Capitol and University. · There is a broad consensus that it is tired, dated, and cluttered, particularly the site furnishings and lighting. · It is inﬂexible, lacks repair and maintenance, and has not been updated to remain competitive with other shopping districts. · Street trees have been severely pruned. Appropriate detailing and construction of improved tree pits with better soil and drainage are needed. A mechanism for ensuring the maintenance of trees and promoting their good health is essential

Expanding the public domain without expanding the Right-Of-Way

Rerouting trafﬁc and calibrating the street for different activities

and

DESIGN PROPOSALS

1. Street Planting on both sides of the street The spacing and alignment of the trees are both varied and controlled, with the intent being to avoid an overly rigid and static design and to create more interest. The horizontal alignment, perpendicular to buildings and curb lines, is controlled in that the trees are arranged in a straight line of a consistent 12-foot dimension from the face of buildings. Along that line, the spacing is varied, with deliberate gaps inserted to showcase the better architectural examples along the street and to allow varying patterns of sunlight at differing times of the day onto the sidewalk

2. Sidewalk furnishing The design approach for the sidewalk furnishing elements on State Street is consistent with the overall strategy for the street, that the furnishings convey a rather understated, traditional, and timeless character, yet not historic and not trendy. Sidewalk furnishing includes benches, dustbins, bus shelters, Kiosks, Newspaper boxes and enclosures, Bicycle Racks, and planters 6

Scarborough bench by Landscape Forms Inc.

Trash container by Victor Stanley Inc..

light and transparent bus shelter

vandal proof kiosk

3. Lighting Light fixtures are sized to relate to the pedestrian scale of the street and are typically sixteen feet tall. The lights are to cast light downward and to the sides, eliminating light-spill upward into the night skies. Fixtures along State Street have two lamps and can be fitted with flower baskets during the summer or banners announcing upcoming events. These fixtures are spaced approximately fifty feet on the center and are located in an alternating pattern from one side of the street to the other (rather than opposite each other) for more even light distribution. Fixtures on side streets are similar to those along State Street but fitted with a single lamp, and with parking meters attached directly to the pole

5. Pavement

Multi-functional light poles - (A) primary intersections, (B) along State Street, (C) along side streets and (D) at secondary intersections

4. Signage & Wayfinding

Palette of Wayﬁnding Elements

The design of this project seeks to help alleviate directional issues as much as possible by making one-way streets continuous and logical in their direction. By using consistent paving materials, tree plantings, and street light fixtures designed specifically for this project, the State Street District is to be clearly delineated by its unique look and feel. Wayfinding for this project clearly locates venues and parking within the district and to provide a system of signs that are consistent in language, color and design to further emphasize the State Street District.

Pavement detail

Pedestrian Sidewalk Zone The street uses cast-in-place contrete for pedestrain sidewalk with a smooth ﬁnish to serve wheelchairs and gritty to inhibit slipping. There is a strong preference for a sidewalk with some “life” or “personality” rather than just a standard light gray concrete in a cool hue. Consequently, the sidewalk design has a pigmented warm buff to gray concrete in a medium to darker hue, seeded with chips of red granite

Crosswalks Two types of crosswalks are proposed for delineation of pedestrian walking zones in the streets at intersections. The crosswalks that parallel State Street, and cross the adjacent streets which intersect with State Street, are paved in the same concrete color and ﬁnish (dark gray with chips of red granite) as the pedestrian zones on State Street. The cross walks are, essentially, an extension of the sidewalk pedestrian zone crossing the adjacent streets.

Layouts The overall layout of the paving materials reinforces the directional swath that State Street cuts through the grid of the city. ADA ramps are paved with the same materials used for the pedestrian zone of the sidewalk.

MASTER PLAN

pavement the design

state bank of india

Pedestrian sidewalk zone

ma rg

The new proposed pedestrain sidewalk is 4.5m on both sides of the street. it is paved to permeable bricks to enhance water drainage. the pedestrain sidewalk has benches on both sides and a planter box behind the benches

given the harsh weather conditions. the design uses cast-in-place concrete for the street pavement. this can withstand various changes in weather patterns

pedestrain zone 4.5metres

sa ns

potestant church

pedestrain zone

main street

4.5metres

15.5metres

old court building

bench $ planter box hieght relation

bible hse.

48cm

40cm

lighting

sansad marg police station

jeevan vihar building

bench planter box l*w*h 2.5m by 0.6m by 0.4 repectively

Sardar Patel Bhavan

sidewalk ramps

ns a

permeable blocks on sidewalk

jeevan deep building

jeevan tara building

sidewalks with ramps to ease movement of the disabled

The design proposes two types of street light 1. double lamp street light 10m tall located on the reservation. the street light should be fitted with a promotional space. 2. single lamp street light located on the sidewalks

LEGEND BUS STOP

patel chowk

proposed vegetation layout ELECTRIC CHARGING STATION ZEBRA CROSSING parking Bicyle Park

masterplan URBAN CONTEXT STUDIO

cycling lane sidewalk

street light with ad space high canopy tree

parking

single lamp street light

carriage way shrubs planted on the reservation

cross section

A B

planter box detail

2metres

The planter box should be made of pre-cast concrete and placed on the outer edge of the sidewalk at about 0.1m apart

0.6metres

masterplan section 1 URBAN CONTEXT STUDIO

bus stop double lamp street light

cycling lane

cross section

median

C D

street light

1.5m

masterplan section ii URBAN CONTEXT STUDIO

cross section

E F

Proposed bicycle park along Sansad marg. this aims to promote active transport to get people to their destination.

masterplan section iii URBAN CONTEXT STUDIO

Street furnishing i. street bench A movable Scarborough bench along on each edge of the walkway

ii.bus stop New bus stops proposed out but adjacent to the main street. this was considered to prevent interuption on the traffic flow. the buses have to get out of the main street to pick the passengers.

0.6m 1.82m

0.7m

exit

entry to bus stop

iii. trash containers An integrated solid waste management system is proposed to allow the separation of wastes. the containers will be placed strategically 60m apart on both sides of the walkway

walkway

trash containers planter box

key implementations URBAN CONTEXT STUDIO

vegetation A proposed tree pit has a diameter of 1.5m. This will give adequate space for the trees to grow. the tree pit is placed 0.8m from the cycling lane

way and signage

Cycling Lane

0.8m from the cyling lane

tree

traffic light To be placed at every zebra crossing. the traffic lights should have timers with 65 seconds for pedestrians and 45 seconds for vehicles

1.5m tree pit

tree pit

The spacing and alignment are both varied and controlled with an intent to control an overly rigid and static design. the high canopy trees are about 15m apart and a bench in between

carriage way

cycling lane

walkway 15metres

15metres

key implementations URBAN CONTEXT STUDIO