A QUATER MILE DISTRICT | TRANSIT DRIVEN TRANSFORMATION

“Q u a t e r M i l e D i s t r i c t” Urban Transformation at Drive In Road, Ahmedabad

CEPT University

Jugal Bhatt | PUD20154

Summer Semester - 2022

DECLARATION

Declaration The information presented in this report has been generated by the author as a part of the Urban Transformation Studio in Masters of Urban Design at Faculty of Planning, CEPT University. Any omissions and errors are deeply regretted.

Acknowledgment I would like to express my gratitude towards CEPT University, Ahmedabad and Faculty of Planning for conducting Urban Transformation Studio in Masters of Urban Design program for developing the basic understanding about large scale brown field developments in urban areas.I am grateful to Prof. Narendra Mangwani, Prof. Brijesh Bhatha and academic associate Jay Bhanushali who have constantly been active and imparting the best of their knowledge and skills to us throughout the semester.

Studio Brief Studio : 3 Urban Transformation Studio (UTS) Tutor : Narendra Mangvani Instructors : Brijesh Bhatha, Purvi Jadav, Narendra Mangvani, Aparna Joshi

P R E FA C E

The studio is focused on the design aspects of urban transformations within the existing urban areas. Indian cities are growing rapidly in terms of population and therefore expanding physically. Increasing urban population and the growing urban incomes are affecting the demand for more and more built-floor space in cities accompanied by a demand for infrastructure. Urban areas within these cities are dealing with unsustainable levels of stress on infrastructure, resources, and public services and are becoming unlivable.

To address these concerns, the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs (MoUHA) has initiated various schemes such as AMRUT (Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation), SMART CITIES MISSION, and HRIDAY (Heritage City Development and Augmentation). These schemes enable planning for developing infrastructure in the brownfield areas through mechanisms such as Local Area Plans (LAP) and Town Planning schemes (TPS).

Students work on the projects emerging out of these initiatives defined by studio tutors.

The individual projects will emerge within the premise and have a strong design focus on the physical setting, however, issues of private ownership and social equity, land economics, planning models, project finance, and implementation strategies are also addressed.

TABLE OF CONTENT

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Declaration Acknowledgment Studio Brief Table of Contents

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Introduction

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Contextualising TOD Development Site Documentation and Analysis Need of LAP and Overall Vision Plan Delayring the Site and Vision

Quater Mile District : Masterplan Framework

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Intend Delayring of Master Plan Evolution of Master Plan Identification of Key Projects

Envisioned Character of Transformation

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Project : 1 - Transit Interchange Project : 2 - Institutional and City Interface

Phases of Transformation and Learnings Phases of Transformation Conclussion & Learning

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Introduction

The first section talks about setting the premise of the project right from identifying the potential of the Transit Orriented Development (TOD) to identifying the site and its potential towards the new TOZ policies.

The second part of the section talks about the implementation and finilisation of LAP strategies and making the frameowrk plan for the overall site and deliniating the one stretch. Establishing the role of an urban designer in both the sections.

Local Area Planning : A legilative tool for systmatic Development for districts.

82 Lakhs.

Ahmedabad

Total Population

464 sqkm Total Area

Gujarat

Ahmedabad : Constantly growing expanding city.

‘Ahmedabad a constantly growing and thumbling city of the state located at the western front considered to be education hub and migration anchor of the state and west.’

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Transit Or r iented D evelop m en t A Major Strategy from Development Plan City : Ahmedabad

Contextulising Transit Oriented Development As the The Union Urban Development Ministry has formulated ‘National Transit Oriented Development (TOD) Policy’ to address the challenges of urbanization. That aims to promote living close to mass urban transit corridors like the Metros and bus rapid transit (BRT) corridors. A lot of Indian cities are seeing an increase in transit infrastructure, So is the city of Ahmedabad. Thus, TOD influence zone i.e. TOZ (Transit Oriented Zone) of 200m on either end of transit lines have been identified and to promote redevelopment the city has increased the development potential i.e. (Floor Space Index) FSI from maximum permissible 2.7 to 4.0 along this corridors.

To realize these developments, the city has adopted the process of local area plans (LAP) that is concerned with resolving local level issues & priorities the overall public welfare by regulating developments of these local areas. One of such stipulated development is identified as Drive-in LAP, along mass rapid transit (MRT) Corridor.

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Regional Context : Drive in Road, Ahmedabad A major connectivity from outskirts to the core part of the city.

2.08 Sq.Km

3.42 Km.

325 No.

72 %

Area

Length

Total Plots

Total Built Up

Traditional Mixed Use Buildings

Upcoming Comm.

Congestion due to MRTS

The Drive-in LAP boundary is well established with multi-functional districts and connection with major city level arterial and sub arterial roads. The precinct thus has a very strong transit network in terms of metro line going above and a major population dependent on the para-transit system and the edges are all activated through commercial and mixed use frontages with lot of institutional land and con

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Gopalnagar Slums

1,645

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Total Buildings

Junctions

Upcoming Developments

vention space that function as a city level landmark within the mixed use neighbourhood. Each of the stretch from junction to junction has diverce character in nature. Some of them have mixed use residential fabric as a dominant typology. Some of them are largely dominated by institutional and public land. That is one of the reason why along the entire stretch development is happening in isolation.

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Evolution of Precinct : 1935 - 2022

Linear Infrastructure Corridors acts a major anchor for transformation

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32.0 Mt..

02 No.

Major Arterial R.O.W.

B.R.T.S. Station

Gurukul : A Relegious Landmark

H.L. College : Institutional Landmark

The major events that started shaping the precinct is formation of Ahmedabad Education Society (AES) in year 1935, which created job opportunities and people started maigrating from one part of the city to another. To provide better connectivity AMTS has started the service in year 1947, which happens to be a major change.

04 No.

06 No.

M.R.T.S. Station

A.M.T.S. Station

Drive In Cinema : Recreational

Himalaya Mall

Defunct Waterpark Land

That laid to the development of many residential colonies across the precinct as it was easy to commute now. Another major change was happened in year 2011 the construction of BRTS and on a similar line after six years MRTS connectivity to the precinct had evolved the precicnt to his heighest standard, Right from the major land of institutins and public high end appartments and residences.

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Site Documentation and Analysis Built Density, Ground Coverage and Site Character

Drive in Road : Figure Ground Diagram

59 % Land Under Public

Drive in Road : Institutions are as a Dominant Stakeholder

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Distribution of Built Usage and Density

Here as the figure ground diagram suggests out of the total percentage of land 59% of land is under private realm, in that also 63% of the land is under margin and only 15% of the spaces are either acts as a open space or is under utilised as a vacant plot. Thus it offers the great potential to improve the public life of the neighbourhood. The figure ground diagram also talks about the built density, it suggests that the stretch has dence built fabric at the eastern edge, where the central portion has sparce density and agin it gets dense at the south.

The second image that is land use distribution across the stretch talks about the dominance of the usages. That is perticularky residential but the key fact is institutional percentage. Out of city’s entire institutional land 11% of the major institutional land is present on this stretch. They are also the largest stake holder in terms of land area present on the entire stretch i.e. Ahmedabad Education Society (A.E.S.), Gujarat University (G.U.), Indian Insttute of Managment (I.I.M.A.) etc.

Identification of Five Major Districts

As describe above the built density and diverce built usages across the site, if we start puting the fabric across the site it can sum up as describe in the above illustration. It has five major chacateristics identify as a district and promenades.

Starting from the right it institution dominant zone as a knowledge district. Underutilised institutional land parcels as a institutional district. The potential node of transit interchange at center as inter-modal transit district and others as bazar, recreational district.

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Develeopment Potential Analysis : 2022 Tool to understand the existing pace of transformation across the Stretch.

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Documenting the Demolished Sites

First phase of the analysis is to document the buildings that are under demolishing. Largely observed as a low rise old appartments, residential bunglows and tenaments. The plots sizes are between 500sq.ft. to 3000 sq.ft. The mapping suggests the same.

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Documenting Under Construction Sites

Second phase of analysis is documenting the under construction buildings. As the every five stretch across the precinct behaving individually, development is happening in isolation largely as high end commercial buildings and appartment buildings across the stretch.

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Documenting Newly Constructed Buildings

Third and final phase of analyis is to document newly constructed built forms. The construction is largey happening with considering the older built usages and making the new built form with higher avaliable FAR of 4.0 as per TOD and GDCR policy.

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Speculating the Future Road Map : 2022 - 2030 Analysing the futyre phases of Transformation.

Development Priority :1 - Single Ownership & Old Buildings

Development Priority :2 - Multiple Ownership & Low Rise Appartment

Development Priority :3 - Buildings that go to redevlopment after 30 years.

Development Priority :4 - Buildings that are least likely to go in redevelopment.

The Combine trend of transformation for future : Year - 2030

As per the curent pace of Transformation 35% Built up will be added in 2022.

The beside documentation of development potential scenario suggests that in duration of 4-6 months almost 6-10 buildings are under demolish, 15 buildings are under construction and 12-15 buildings are under construction . That represents the rapid pace of transformation that every 3 days almost one buildings is under new development that is drastic pace of transformation that this stretch is representing. Now the above analyis suggests

that after analysing the current pattern of redevlopment priority wise distribution of redevlopment, in which the more percentage of development can be seen of commercial near major arterial and high end residential near the internal neighbourhoods. That sums up adding the 35% og new built up in comparision to the existing total built up area by the end of year 2022 across the stretch.

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Opportunities

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Presence of Multiple Tarnsit lines across the stretch.

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Major junctions connecting to the other parts of the city.

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Avaibility of large chunk of underutilised institutional lands.

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Presence of large plots under residential land use.

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Large number of single owenership land.

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The entire stretch is continious connectivity through various transport line in a form of A.M.T.S. , B.R.T.S. and Metro Line (M.R.T.S.)

The area is planned through T.P. scheme that’s why it has strategic junctions at every 750mt., connecting major parts of the city.

There is a large chunk of underutilised institutional lands lying at the center of city, which can be utilised for public welfare.

The large plots except institutional land is under residential use, which presents the opportunity to accomodate larger densities.

That presents the majiority of the opportunity for redevlopment and amalgmation as per the future trend of transformation.

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Major Issues

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Margins utilised majiorotly just for commercial parking.

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Congestion due to MRTS station incorporation on edges.

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Absence of last mile connectivity due to lack of footpath.

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Temporary activities across large public plots.

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Continious dead walls without any definiations.

The margins which should be kept empty for emergency usage, are largely being utilised just for parking of two-wheelers.

Due to the factor that development is just happening in isolation without considering the context, situations are geting wirse.

The lack of continious or broken footpaths at the edges hinders the last mile connectivity across the stretch.

Large public plots of A.M.T.S. and A.M.C. are vacnat at the junctions and just utilised for temporary activities like fair and parking.

Large amount of institutions and multiple ownership lands are either defunct or not utilised, which creates dead streetscapes.

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Need for Local Area Planning Framework To minimise the chain of haphazard development across the stretch.

Why there is need for an LAP framework ? Is a critical question to identify the crucial intentions that the proposed LAP framework needs to address.Thus, to understand this, its important to simulate the need for an LAP, where the intention is to demonstrate urban development in absence of LAP. To do so the first exercise was to pick up a random sample and simulate a case with increased maximum

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permissible FSI of 4 for R1 Zone under TOZ as identified under Ahmedabad Development Plan, and using the common GDCR regulations, as prescribed and leaving the necessary setbacks and margins. Thus bringing up a possible built scenario with varied built form which questions the quality of public realm. That brings up the scenario of where structured development is major requierment.

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Vision for LAP : “ Role of an Urban Designer “

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Efficient land resource management with accessible mass transit system strengthened by last mile connectivity enables the residents, commuters, students and shop owners to have an enriching experience in their everyday public realm.

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Loacal Area Planning : Objectives and Strategies The part of the larger development framework to guide the transformation.

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Open Space Framework Strategy Intend Across the stretch there is a lack of publically accessible and vibrant public spaces. LAP frameowork can act as a tool to achieve that with below objectives ; Objectives 01. Increase percentage of land under public domian.

02. Creating safe, vibrant and active public spaces.

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Built Character Framework Strategy Intend Across the stretch there is a abscence of continious and unique built fabric. LAP frameowork can act as a tool to achieve that with below objectives ; Objectives 01. Context Responsive built form for continious imagibility.

02. The built form at junction and near MRTS should be unique.

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Movement or Transit Framework Strategy Intend Abscences and insuffcient footpath widths highly hampers the current last mile connectivity across the stretch. LAP frameowork can act as a tool to achieve that with below objectives ; Objectives 01. Establish multi-utility zone along the footpath.

02. Effcient transit interchanges and plazas for transit population.

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Effcient Land Managment Frameowork Strategy

Intend Underutilised,defunct public and private land parcels are the biggest issue across the stretch. LAP frameowork can act as a tool to achieve that with below objectives ; Objectives 01. Effciently develop vacant institution lands.

02. Amalgamate the small defuct residential plots.

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Drive in Road : Overall Local Area Planning Framework

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LEGEND Open Spaces

Neighbourhood Streets

Built form at Junctions

Carved Out Streets

400Mt. Radius Influential Zone

Major Arterials Relegious Landmarks Institutional Lands

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Institutional District : Site Deliniation and Project Vision

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Role of an Urban Designer

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Giving definition to the district by, enhancing the urban built character and weaving institutional and public land inside the city fabric.

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Objectives 01.

Enhancing the Urban Built Character along the major arterial raods.

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Stregthening the last mile connectivity across the district.

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Effciently utilising public and institutional land for welfare of the city.

Key Illustration

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Master Plan Frameowrk

The section focouses upon formulation of masterplan based on various startegies of development across the neighbourhood. The master plan talks about the different zones within the neighbourhood that is residential zone, commercial definiation along the aretrial and majorly transit interchange near helmet junction and high end residential neighbourhood devlopment with plugin plaza along the institutional interface zone near Gujarat University. The major intervention or the anchor of the plan is “Transi Plaza” near the BRTS and MRTS, which helps in enhancing the spill over activities.

Visualising the Urban Form inside the Township

24% Instititutional

4.0 Availaible FSI Ubiversity Area

A Transit Orriented District : “A Quater Mile District” The area acts as a major district within a city, its is largely dominated by the stakeholder like Ahmedabad Education Society, AMC and students from the surrounding universities.

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A Quater Mile D is t r ict : M a s t er p la n Transformation Scenario - 2030 Transit Orriented Devlopment (T.O.D.)

LEGEND Open Spaces New Buildings Retained Buildings Neighbourhood Footpath Arterial Road

“ A Quater Mile District ”: Stregnthening the Last Mile Connectivity The major gensis of master plan is the variou characteristics of plazas. The plazas largely has two types of character one is acting as a ‘Transit Plaza’, which is located near the helmet junction on the both side of arteria raod. That helps to extend the spill over comming out of the BRTS and MRTS stations from the arterial.

That also serves as a invert facing plaza between the commercial buildings and transit hub. Now the second typology of plazas called as a plugin plazas that is near university and city interface at the southern side of the masterplan. The high end residential appartments have two sets of plugin plazas along the university road with G+1 story commercials facing the sports facility. Each of the plazas and adjecent commercials ghave different character cattering to the various needs of students and surrounding neighbourhood, right from the food kiosks to the daily needs and essentials.

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Delayer ing the Master Plan

T ran s for m at i o n S c e n a r i o - “ 2030”

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Commercial Development along Ar ter ial

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University Transit Hub with Transit Plaza

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Commercial Hub with M.R.T.S. Transit Plaza

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Cluster of Mixed use Buildings along the Ar ter ial

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Giving identity at and near the junction by redevloping old commercial buildings into high end commercial centers with G+2 podium.

A Major inclussion and act as a transformation anchor for the district, by utilising the existing underutilised land of Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC).

An urban promenade along the canal edge with the community farms connected with the premium neighbourhoods.

To define the streetscape along the Drive in Road areterial, proposal of three mixed use commercial pockets, which the usages will be define in future as per the market forces.

Rear raging the Institutional Edge with Arena To activate the dead interface between the institution and city proosal of multi-fucntional seating with shops underneath cattering to diverce activities.

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High End Residential Appar tments with Plazas To contribute to the active edge, other side of the raod will be edevloped as a high end residential appartments with G+1 story podium tower and plug in plaza along the raod.

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Cr icket Ground with Amphitheater Existing Cricket ground is converted as a city level regulated and open entry emphitheater and ground. Shared by university and city.

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Contexulising to Envisioning

M ast er P lan E vo l u t i o n - ‘ 2 030’

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Considering the Master Plan at A.E.S. land

15% Master Plan Area

- AES Master Plan Boundary

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Merging Dead end Streets to the Main Arterials

22% Streets

- Secondary Streets - Major Arterial - Vegetation

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Adding Builtform Scenar

59% Added Built Form

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rio as per the Current Trends

- Secondary Streets - Major Arterial - Vegetation - MRTS,BRTS Line

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Adding New Builtform along the Arterials

59%

- Secondary Streets

Added Built Form

- Vegetation

- Major Arterial

- MRTS,BRTS Line

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Retaining the Newly Developed and adding Greens

22% Open Space

- Secondary Streets - Major Arterial - Vegetation - MRTS,BRTS Line

- New Buildings

- New Buildings

- Retained Building

- Retained Building - Public Open Spaces - Private Open Space

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Dr ive in Road : Institutional Distr ict

M ajo r C h a lle n ge s a c r o s s t h e St r e t ch

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Poor Connectivity to Open Spaces

High number of Dead End Streets

Unmanaged Public Land Parcels

Lack of Definiation througout the Stretch

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Detailing out Neighbourhoods

De li n ia t ion o f A n c h o r P r o j e ct s

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TP

CB

CB CB

CP

TP CB CB

A. SF PP

MS AP SF

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PP

MS AP PP

SF

MS

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Transit Interchange

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Institutional Interf ace

TI

Transit Interchange

AP

High End Residential Appartment

TP

Transit plaza on the both side of arterials.

PP

Attached Plugin plazas along the university road.

CP

Corporate park near MRTS plaza along arterial.

MS

Multi-Functional Seating at university edge.

CB

Commercial Skyline

SF

Sports facility

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Envisioned Development Scenarion : 2030

The section focouses upon formulation of masterplan based on various startegies of development across the neighbourhood. The master plan talks about the different zones within the neighbourhood that is residential zone, commercial definiation along the aretrial and majorly transit interchange near helmet junction and high end residential neighbourhood devlopment with plugin plaza along the institutional interface zone near Gujarat University. The major intervention or the anchor of the plan is “Transi Plaza” near the BRTS and MRTS, which helps in enhancing the spill over activities.

“ Transit laid Transformation ”

12% Instititutional

4.0 Availaible FSI

Helmet Junction

Transit Interchange : “Stregthening Last Mile Connectivity” “The jucntion has a nultiple intergration of transit facility that is B.R.T.S. and M.R.T.S. and lacks a transit interchange facility which can effciently transit people from one end to another.”

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03 Potential & Challenges

Project D escr ipt io n : Tra n s it I n t e rch a n ge Effciently merging Transit into Neighbourhood Transit Orriented Devlopment (T.O.D.)

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Potential : Upcoming university Metro Station.

Challenege : Complicated helmet junction.

Challenege : Dead walls along the major arterial road.

Proposed Layout for Transformation

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LEGEND

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M.R.T.S. Transit Plaza

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B.R.T.S. Transit Plaza

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Transit Interchange

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Commercial Facility

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Institutional Facility

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Commercial Park

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Hotel Complex

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Corporate Park

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Connecting Bridge

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At the Helmet Junction

A. Tran s it I nt e r c h a n ge Design Intend The major idea to capitalise this project as a transformation anchor is the potential of the upcoming M.R.T.S. university station. It has the capability to bring more footfall and connectivity to the other part of the city. So the intend is to free up the spaces at the ground to give upcoming footfall a space for spill over in a form of transit plazas and retail, followed by the transit interchange or exchange building near B.R.T.S. junction. The inbetween concour of the M.R.T.S. station acts as transition space between the two ends of the heavyly loaded Drive in Road Arterial.

Design Strategies

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Transit Interchange Hub with Transit Plaza

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Taking 6.0Mt. of land into public domain from main road plots.

CP

Commercial pocket

TP

Transit Plaza - B.R.T.S.

CP

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Transit Interchange

TP

Transit Plaza - M.R.T.S.

CP

Commercial pocket

CP

Corrporate park at the junction along the plaza.

ISOMETRIC VIEW : Transit Interchange

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SECTION -AA

D iv is ion of B u i l t S p a c e U s a ge wit hin B uilt fo r m Enve lo p

OFFICE SPACES OFFICE SPACES OFFICE SPACES OFFICE SPACES OFFICE SPACES OFFICE SPACES OFFICE SPACES RENTAL INSTITUTES RENTAL INSTITUTES CAFE / RESTAURANT

TRANSIT INTERCHANGE FACILITIES TRANSIT INTERCHANGE FACILITIES RETAIL SHOPS TRANSIT PLAZA

TRANSIT INTERCHANGE BASEMENT PARKING

Basement Parking

3.0 Mt.

3.0 Mt.

Walkway

Footpath

9.0

Lane : 1- M

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OFFICE SPACES OFFICE SPACES OFFICE SPACES OFFICE SPACES OFFICE SPACES OFFICE SPACES OFFICE SPACES CO WORKING SPACES CO WORKING SPACES CAFE / RESTAURANT RENTAL RETAIL SHOPS

RETAIL

RENTAL RETAIL SHOPS

CONCOURSE

CONCOURSE

RETAIL SHOPS RETAIL SHOPS

TRANSIT PLAZA

BASEMENT PARKING

Mt.

Mixed Traffic

2.0 Mt.

9.0 Mt. Lane : 2- Mixed Traffic

3.0 Mt.

3.0 Mt.

Footpath

Walkway

Basement Parking

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Birds Eye and Human Eye View

Vi sua lised Tr a n s f o r ma t i o n

MRTS podium

MP

Commercial Skyline

CS

AC

Active Concourse

PG

Podium Level Green Terrace

View from the Podium of Transit Interchange Facility The view is from the podium level talks about how the three commercial pockets with high rise commercial buildings with matching podium height througout the stretch. The idea is to make it humane at the street level with dominant height of G+3 throughout matching the concourse of the MRTS station. Also other side of the arterial road the podium level terrace of the commercial building is utilised for the rooftop cafe or the green public open space for the city people Vi ew :1

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PV

Public Pavilion

TP

Open Space Connections

FP

3.0Mt. Wide Footpath

CO

MRTS Concourse

View from the walkway towards M.R.T.S. Transit Plaza The plaza as shown in the view act as a multi-functional plaza, where the some part act as a invert facing plaza for the buisness hub and majiority of the part is located near the MRTS station. The itend of designing the plaza just below the MRTS station is to catter to the rising floating population and act as a space to catter to spill over activities. The ground floor of the commercial hub is designed on coloumns which acts as a extended plaza space in a form og walkway.

View :2

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Form Base Guidelines f or Built Form

Strateg ies t o ma i n t a i n t h e Ur ba n Fo r m

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02.

13 Floors

10 Floors

Commercial Cluster Should have carved out entrances from all four sides

Variation in Heights to create Step Terraces with

Plots aborting the main road is surrounded by roads from the all four sides. The cluster of commercial buidlings with continious podium of G+3 story height shoud have carved out entrances from all four sides. Amongst which based on the raod width it can act as a minor or major entrances.

The variation in built form height - Aborting the Ma

Aborting the Seconda Aborting the Seconda

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06 Floors

hin the built form

Commercial Cluster Should have carved out entrances from all four sides

ain Raod Height (H) : 13 Floors ary Street Height (H) : 10 Floors ary Street Height (H) : 06 Floors

The step terraces at the upper level has to be dedicated green open spaces. It has to accessible by the public as well as by the private community from the commercial builtform. The extntion of these vertical spaces can be reflected at ground level with 3.0 mt wide footpath and walkway.

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06% Instititutional

4.0 Availaible FSI

University Road

Institutional Interface : “Stregthening Last Mile Connectivity” “The university area has no interaction with the city due to the institutions have fortified theirselves inside the walls ad facing back towards the city.”

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Project D escr ipt io n : I n s t it u t ion a l I n t e rf a ce Effciently merging Transit into Neighbourhood Transit Orriented Devlopment (T.O.D.)

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Potential : Hoste faciity with ansilory buildings and quaters.

Challenege : To activate the dead compund walls.

Challenege : No interconnectivity with institutions.

Proposed Layout for Transformation

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High End Appartment

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Food Plaza

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Retail Plaza

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University Plaza

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Multi-Functional Seating

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Sports Courts

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At University Road

B. In st it u t ion a l I n t e r f a c e Design Intend The major idea of this transformation anchor is to make a smother interaction between city and institution. As currently they are facing back at each other. Devloping the institution edge by keeping the existing master plan in place was one of the major challenge. The major intervention on the university edge is establishing regulated and publically open multi-functional arena seating across the stretch. That catters to the city as well as to the institutues.The spaces underneath the seatings are multifunctional zones.

Design Strategies

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Publicly Accessible diverce characteristics of plug in plazas

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Developing public edge in a form of Multi-Functional Seatings

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Amphitheater

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Plug in Plaza Space

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Multi-Functional Seating or Arena Spaces

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High End Appartment with G+1 podium

ISOMETRIC VIEW : Institutional Interface

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Sport Field

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3.0 Multifunctional Seating

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Human Eye Perspective Views

Vi sua lised Tr a n s f o r ma t i o n

Arena Seating

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High End Appartments

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Active Podium

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Plug in Plaza

View from the Arena towards High end Residential Appartment The view is from the arena towards high end reidential appartment cluster. The arean is designed as a multi-functional seating for the sports facility and rest of the time for the neighbourhood people for the seating. The balconies facing towards the open field add to the property value of the appartment. The gateways from the street to the arena will be regulated througout the day and night.

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Underneath Shops

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Pedestrian Crossovers

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3.0Mt. Wide Footpath

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2.0 Mt. wide Walkway

View from the Street Towards both Side Interfaces The view talks about how the dead street edges on the left side is activated by the local intervention in a form of the multi-functional spaces, ike spaces for foof kiosk , cycle zone, seating spaces for the neighbourhood and students etc. The other side of the edge is designed to compliment to the opposite edge. The plug in plazas at ground level attached with the mixed use appartment building has diverce character cattering to students and surrounding neighbourhoods.

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Project Phasing and Learnings

The last section talsk about the major take aways from the studio in a form of any instances and specfics related to process. Also the major intend final outcome and achievment regarding the master plan process, The major learning out of the studio is how transit can play a important role in transforming the neighbourhood. Stregthening the last mile connectivity can impact the smother connectivity to the entire stretch..

“ Transit Orriented Development towards Stregthening Last Mile Connectivity “

Based on the Transf ormation Anchors

P has es of T ra n s f o r ma t i o n

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Phase : 1 - Transit Interchange and Last Mile Connectivity

Phase : 2 - Giving Definiation along the Drive in Road

As MRTS station work is already im progress as a first phase of the transformation is to built the transit interchange with transit plaza on both sides of the arterial, which will contribute immediately behind smothe function of MRTS and BRTS at the junction, which will able to handle the larger footfall, spillovers and stregthens the last mile connectivity.

The second phase of the transformation will be developing pockets of neighbourhood building along the major arterial as per the trend of usages. Either it can be high end commercial buildings or mixed use where the lower floors are commercial and upper will be high end residential, which will define the steetscape as well as enhance the property value.

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Phase : 3 - Enhancing Institutional Interface

Phase : 4 - Devloping Residential and Institutional Built Form

The third phase of transformation aims to establish smother and porous connectivity between city and institution. Development of multi-functional seating along the institution edge and attached plug-in-plazas at the opposite edge with high end commercial will help to regain the identity of the entire street as a city-institutional interface.

The last phase of the transformation will be devloping residential, rental and mixed use neighbourhoods within the district. It will be combination of high end residentials and dedicated rental appartment lanes, which will purely segregate the usages from each other.

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Transf ormation Sc enar io : “2030”

“ A Q u ater M i l e D i s t r i c t ”

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The intend of the transformation is to give identity to the district and establish a continious connectivity from the residence to the various nodes of transits, which add into the effcient last mile connectivity within a neighbourhood. It acts as a typological example for the other precinct across the city, where transit can act as a major protagonist of the transformation.

Le ar n in g s

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Urban transformation studio imparted the ability to comprehend large scale urban renewal projects. The studio provided learning on how to develop local Area Plans and guide brown-field developments within urban core. Also, it provided an understanding as to identify an appropriate development model for such projects, which is quite crucial for such scales of redevelopment. The learnings were not only limited on how to prepare a strategic framework plan of delineated areas with identified design projects rather it extended to prepare a regulatory framework for the intended urban form outcome for the project areas. And also develop a planning model for executing the proposed framework plan and carrying out various public place design project.

The project has provided a detailed insight via an understanding of urban land as a potential city resource, land markets driving development and a robust city network as a potential way to support city development. The project development process was based on various correlations between land value and market desirability its effect on people and their livelihood, with design ideas to provide a better quality of public life.

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