Sultan Bazaar
This city market area is always bustling with moving crowd. It is one of the oldest markets in Hyderabad and even houses a few ancient buildings. This bazaar falls in the residential zone and has a mix in the activities taking place. It is one of the most crowded urban streets all round the year. Adding to the problem is the Metro line development. The challenge in the redesign of this market street is to retain the originality of the place and also provide the amenities for its users.
Urban Design Type Semester Mentor Scope Softwares used
Academic work 9th semester (Group) Dr. K.Thirumaran Study of the existing city fabric, redesign evolution AutoCAD, Rhinoceros, Sketchup
Hyderabad The site is located in the market area of Sultan Bazaar with a street stretch of 1.2kms.
Sultan Bazaar Market
Hyderabad city map
Landuse overview
Market-space
Introduction
Importance
City center market street, Sultan Bazaar, is one of the most populated heritage street bazaars located in the urban core of Hyderabad, India. Earlier known as residency bazaar, surrounded by residential part of Hyderabad. This street market is popular for its wide range of women’s and children’s garments, pick-up bangles, silver jewelry, daily need accessories, imitation watches and handicraft products.
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Physical: Focal center of the city. Heritage value: 150 year old Heritage market Connectivity: Converging point for all public transit. Population diversity: One lakh people, all from different income groups and age groups are the users of the market everyday. Socio-Culture variation: Variation of activities with time, include selling, buying, religious activities, and festivals are celebrated along the street.
Metro rail corridor
Problems 1. Design quality & Built form: • Dilapidated structures hampering the quality of edges & faces of the street. • Lack of sanitary & hygienic services. 2.
Density & usage of Public Realm: • Unidentified encroachment on streets leading to congestion, and haphazard access. • Constricted vehicular access and parking space issues.
3. New Metro line development: • This line requires road expansion through demolishing the street buildings. • Negatively influencing the growth of the street and its visual character.
Affected area analysis
Site zoning
Site profiling
Level zoning
Redesign analysis