Shaping interactions between Public and Places (Urban Design)

Shaping Interactions between People & Places Sakshi 1Reddy PG180859

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Introduction 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 eachelement and how they contribute to the scale, form, character and their relationship with the larger urban context. The learning outcome of the studio are: toprepare 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.

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CONTENTS

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Elements of Urban Design Building Types.....7

Urban Blocks.....17 Street and Open Spaces.....23 UD Master Plan : Reimagine sector of Gandhinagar.....29 Learnings.....41

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Building Types

Elements of Urban Design This module introduces the students to the methods of perceiving and representing the key elements of urban design. The premise is that building types, urban blocks, streets and public open spaces form the key elements that meaningfully characterize an urban precinct. he exercises involved in this module will enable an understanding on how each of the element contributes to the scale, form, character and their relationship with function and the spatial organization.

1A. Building Types This exercise is designed to develop methods of effectively capturing various attributes of building types such as form and its relationship to ground.

The exercise requires students to identify, categorise and represent the prevailing building types in our cities and develop their skills to draw building footprint and its three-dimensional form that abstract the architectural language along with its relations to the ground. Students are required to identify and represent 7 building types with 3 buildings each, one from Ahmedabad or any other city where it is possible for them to observe in person, one from India (outside Ahmedabad) and one example from outside of India.

The students have drawn the three buildings of seven types and have explored various techniques to represent the form.

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Typology 1

Independent Bungalows

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Building Name :

Prerna House

Building Name :

32-A, Hyderabad

Building Name :

Robie House, Chicago

Ground Coverage :

100 sqmt

Ground Coverage :

80sqmt

Ground Coverage :

480 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

220 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

200sqmt

Total Built-up area :

1210 sqmt

1. Independent Bunglow Colour Scheme

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Building Name :

Prerna House

Building Name :

32-A, Hyderabad

Building Name :

Robie House, Chicago

Ground Coverage :

100 sqmt

Ground Coverage :

80sqmt

Ground Coverage :

480 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

220 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

200sqmt

Total Built-up area :

1210 sqmt

Typology 2

1. Independent Bunglow

Administrative Building

Colour Scheme

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Building Name :

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M.S. Building

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Building Name :

Visvesvaraya Tower, Bangalore

Building Name :

Guy Favreau Complex, Montreal

Ground Coverage :

4500 sqmt

Ground Coverage :

4000 sqmt

Ground Coverage :

12700 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

42000 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

25000 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

75000 sqmt

2. Administrative Building

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Typology 3

Residential Apartments

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Building Name :

Prasad Towers

Building Name :

Kanchanjunga Apartment, Mumbai

Building Name :

The Shoreham Apartments, Chicago

Ground Coverage :

3735sqmt

Ground Coverage :

450 sqmt

Ground Coverage :

1800 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

8300sqmt

Total Built-up area :

12000sqmt

Total Built-up area :

62000 sqmt

3. High Rise Apartment

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Building Name :

Prasad Towers

Building Name :

Kanchanjunga Apartment, Mumbai

Building Name :

The Shoreham Apartments, Chicago

Ground Coverage :

3735sqmt

Ground Coverage :

450 sqmt

Ground Coverage :

1800 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

8300sqmt

Total Built-up area :

12000sqmt

Total Built-up area :

62000 sqmt

Typology 4

3. High Rise Apartment

Civic Buildings

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Building Name :

M G Memorial Hall (Communtiy Hall)

Building Name :

Ravindra harati, Hyderabad (Auditorium)

Building Name :

Billings Public Library, Montana

Ground Coverage :

800 sqmt

Ground Coverage :

1700 sqmt

Ground Coverage :

3600sqmt

Total Built-up area :

1500 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

3500 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

8000 sqmt

4. Civic Building

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Typology 5

Administrative Headquarters

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Building Name :

SBI Building, Lal Darwaza

Building Name :

Air India Headquarters Mumbai

Building Name :

GSW Headquarters, Berlin

Ground Coverage :

2500 sqmt

Ground Coverage :

5600sqmt

Ground Coverage :

7200 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

12500 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

20000 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

48000 sqmt

5. Commercial Building (High Rise)

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Building Name :

SBI Building, Lal Darwaza

Building Name :

Air India Headquarters Mumbai

Building Name :

GSW Headquarters, Berlin

Ground Coverage :

2500 sqmt

Ground Coverage :

5600sqmt

Ground Coverage :

7200 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

12500 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

20000 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

48000 sqmt

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Building Name :

Hyatt Regency

Building Name :

Trident Hotel, Mumbai

Building Name :

Fairmont, San francisco

Ground Coverage :

3000 sqmt

Ground Coverage :

10250 sqmt

Ground Coverage :

9500 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

16000 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

120000 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

100000 sqmt

6. Hotel

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Typology 7

Religious Buildings

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Building Name :

Hanuman Temple

Building Name :

Basilica of Bom Jesus, Goa

Building Name :

St Pauls Cathedral, Birmingham

Ground Coverage :

400 sqmt

Ground Coverage :

1000 sqmt

Ground Coverage :

550 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

700 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

1000 sqmt

Total Built-up area :

550 sqmt

7. Religious Building

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Urban Blocks

Elements of Urban Design This exercise is designed to develop strategic understanding of various attributes regarding Urban Blocks and its components – Building Types, Streets and Spaces between buildings.

The exercise requires the students to identify and represent the prevailing urban blocks in our cities and develop their skills to draw these blocks and its three-dimensional form that abstracts the character of the blocks. Students are required to identify and represent 2 urban blocks, one from the city of Ahmedabad, and one as Global example.

The students have drawn these two blocks and have explored various techniques to represent their spatial character.

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Internal area of the block

space is characterised by quieter zones, with similar residential typologies characterized by the facade.

As one moves towards the interiors of the block, the space is characterised by quieter zones, with similar residential typologies characterized by the facade.

offer open frontage of the building blocks . Wide and of vehicular The peripheral areas offerpedestrian open frontage the streetsblocks with trees andpedestrian planters along length, building . Wide and the vehicular streets with trees and planters along the length,

Block Peremeter

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Block Perimeter Smallest Smallest 365 m PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION Largest Largest 440PRODUCED m BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

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Block Periphery The peripheral Block Peripheryareas

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Built Space 36% Name: Faculty of Planning | CEPT University Public Open Space 44%

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Urban Blocks BuiltBuilt v/s Open v/s Open Built Built spacespace Public open spacespace Public open Private open open spacespace Private

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Name: Name: Faculty of Planning | CEPT University Faculty of Planning | CEPT University

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Block Perimeter Smallest 365 m Largest 440 m

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Footprints

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Urban Blocks Urban Blocks

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The peripheral areas offer open frontage of the building blocks . Wide pedestrian and vehicular streets with trees and planters along the length,

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

Building Footprints Block Periphery

PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK STUDENT VERSION

The peripheral areas offer open frontage of the building blocks . Wide pedestrian and vehicular streets with trees and planters along the length,

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Block Periphery

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Private Open Space

Navrangpura, Ahmedabad

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Block Peremeter Smallest 270 m Largest 680 m

Bult v/s Open Built Space 33% Public Open Space 29% Private Open Space 38%

Building Footprints

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Urban Blocks

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Urban Blocks

Built v/s Open Built space Public open space Private open space

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Jama Mosque complex, Ahmedabad

Name: Parth Patel Faculty of Planning | CEPT University

Navrangpura

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Urban Blocks

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Block Perimeter Smallest 38 m Largest 660 m

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Jama Mosque complex, Ahmedabad

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Street and Open Space

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Elements of Urban Design Streets This exercise is designed to develop strategic understanding of various attributes regarding Streets and functional role of mobility as well as social role of being public space.

The exercise requires the students to identify and represent one street with distinct characteristics and develop their skills to draw its three-dimensional form that abstracts the character of the street life.

Students could select such a street from the Indian or Global context.

Additionally, they have analysed the parameters that make the physical envelope of the street such as porosity, building ground floor use and access.

Public Open Spaces This exercise is designed to develop strategic understanding of various attributes regarding Public Open spaces such as scale, location, access, spatial configuration and use.

The exercise requires the students to identify and represent ONE important public space with distinct characteristics and develop their skills to draw its three-dimensional form that abstracts the character of the life in that public space. Students could select such a public open space from the Indian or Global context.

The students have drawn the public space and have explored various techniques to represent its character.Additionally, they have analysed the parameters that make the physical envelope of the public space such as porosity, building ground floor use and access.

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Omotesando, Japan

International Shopping Street 25

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Zagreb Square, Croatia

Public Plaza

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Revitalizing sector 13 of Gandhinagar Module 2. Structure Plan& Representation This is the second module of the studio. Having dealt with various aspects of the key elements of the urban realm in module 1, this module attempts to develop the analytical, conceptual and representational abilities in preparing a Framework Plan for a given urban area.

This module includes preparation of various design strategies such as open spaces strategy, street network and urban block strategies, building use and type strategy culminating into preparation of a Structure Plan for the given urban area.

Students will be required to prepare illustrative structure plan to be represented through a single 3-dimensional drawing. This drawingsshall demonstrate the key characteristics of the plan and highlight the key design interventions with respect to streets, open spaces, urban blocks and building types. They will also prepare design analysis in the form of all the relevant layers to demonstrate 29 the underlying principles employed in preparing the design.

Revitalising Neighbourhood through activating the public Loop.

Concept and Analysis

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Proposed design for Sector 13

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Design Analysis

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BLOCK Detail

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STREET Detail 37

Open Space Detail

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Open Space 39 Detail

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Learnings

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1. If Urban Design is ‘the art of shaping the interaction between, people and places, environment and urban form, nature and built fabric, (Urban Design Compendium I) then it becomes critical to understand people and places in a way that we can create more of them for more people.

2. Urban Design deals with interventions at a level where people are not looked at individually for their personal likes and dislikes. People across the world are looked at with a common lense.

Need for a society & companionship with aspirations for a better secure future are basic values that drives a human. In the process of trying to achieve them, we need our immediate surroundings to cater to basic human desire of hope and happiness.

3. Before buildings became our surroundings, nature with its magic of green fields, blue waters and sky was our public space. With increase in the built, how are we catering to those desires? There are some spaces that evoke the best of our emotions. What quality of those spaces are working its magic? Identifying and assessing these quality spaces forms an important part of this semesters brief.

4. There are many open successful spaces and streets that have been studied. Irrespective of the different contexts they all sit in, which is equally important in contributing to its success, we tried breaking down them to a few principles that are critical to a quality public space. Few of them listed below-For people, of people and by people. It needs to be designed with the sole intention of catering to people (instead corporations) -People want to see other people and want to be seen. The space can be quiet and relaxing, but needs to be inhabited by people.

-It is essential to include natural elements like trees, shrubs, grass etc.

Spaces that use these elements to emphasize on the design and scale attract more people.

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