maitreyi yellapragada

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Masters in City Planning | II Sem

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

musi riverfront revitalisation

heritage precint, hyderabad

The Musi River flows through Hyderabad and covers a distance

of 28 km within the city. It broadly divides the city into Old city

and New city.

Today, the river has become a receptacle of untreated domestic

and industrial waste dumping out of Hyderabad.

The project aims at revitalization of a stretch of land along the

river Musi, in Hyderabad, and to propose activities that improve

the present scenario and can add to the economic development

of the region.

The site under consideration is a 1.5 km stretch along the river at

a major intersection that connects to the old city of Hyderabad –

a major commercial and cultural link.

The basic approach was to transform the demarcated area into a

heritage corridor with associated activities that can ameliorate the

ecological and socio-economic condition of the region.

CLIMATIC ANALYSIS

SITE SELECTION

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musi riverfront revitalisation

heritage precint, hyderabad

Zoning Considerations included Climate, Topography, Visibility,

Accessibility, Ecology, Watersheet locations, Site Density, on the

basis of which the various activities and zones were distributed.

SPATIAL ORGANISATION

METHODOLOGY

Conceptual Analysis –

Developing on the basis of the existing heritage structures of Hyderabad

musi riverfront revitalisation

heritage precint, hyderabad

The project was divided into three major components

- The river walk

- The Ecological Park

- The Heritage Precinct SITE PLAN

APPROACH

SITE SECTIONS

ECOLOGICAL PARK

HERITAGE PRECINCT

RIVER WALK

mapping ward 34, kharagpur

A ward area (No. 34) in Kharagpur town had to be mapped

and its landuse distribution plotted.

Further, the incompatible or discordant landuse typologies

were identified and issues concerning the landuse distribution

were highlighted.

CLIMATIC ANALYSIS

The ward area was firstly analysed based on climatic

conditions and the natural topography of the region that gave

a clear idea regarding the distribution of activities over the

ward.

It also emphasized the potential sites and discordant sites

over the ward.

NATURAL FEATURES

An Irrigational Canal – Kansaboti runs along the Southern end

of the ward.

The area south to the canal is primarily agricultural.

Few areas along the canal are marshy.

Planned Settlements are present on the plain areas.

The underlying purpose of the task was to study a ward and

comprehend the landuse pattern and thus analyse the reasons

for the existing trend .

OBSERVATIONS

The height from the sea level goes on decreasing

towards South and East.

The highest point of this Ward is at the centre and the

North.

Natural drainage follows the arrows in red.

The area shown with darker gradation indicate lower

areas with maximum water logging during rainy

seasons.

Areas depicted with lighter gradation more suitable for

habitation and justify the pattern of land uses found out

during survey.

Topography

Drainage Pattern

mapping ward 34, kharagpur

As per the given ward administrative boundary for ward no. 34:

Total Area – 157.94 Ha

Total Population (2001 data)– 8000 approx.

Rate of Growth in 2012 – 3% of the total population

Current population - 8240

Density of ward – 52 persons per Ha.

Mapping the physical and social infrastructure elements

brought to foreground the adequacy of provision of various

services.

Some zones were found to have adequate amenities

While some lacked basic amenities such as drinking water.

This highlighted the disparity in the ward on the basis of

economic status.

landuse study of ward 34 The prominent feature of the landuse analysis was the improper distribution of social infrastructure and open

spaces. plotting through primary survey

landuse study of ward 34

analysis

Analyzing the Plot sizes

Analyzing the land Price

landuse study of ward 34

issues

neighborhood planning

Gross Area: 78 Ha

Gross Density: 20-30 DU’s/ Ha

Expected Population: 11700

Expected No. of Dwelling Units: 2340

No. of Households under Group Housing

category: 35% : 819

No. of Households under Plotted Housing

category: 65% : 1521

An area of 80 Ha was designed to permit

equitable distribution of all population

Site Potential/ Constraints

Canal at Southern end of site

Arterial roads north and east of site

Forest areas at the corner of the site

Requirements

Central Location of Major Commercial and

institutional activities

Industrial zone located close to the main road

and EWS Housing

Segregation of Industrial from Residential

Areas

HIG Housing on southern zone of the site, a

little farther from the main roads for seclusion

and fresh breeze

Group Housing provision for UMIG, MIG, and

LIG

Provision of Multiple central green spaces

LANDUSE DISTRIBUTION

PHASE-WISE PLANNING ROAD NETWORK

neighborhood planning

calculations

institution planning & design

Site planning and Design of an Educational Institution over an

area of 6.5 ha.

The Centre for Advanced Biomedical Engineering has 4

departments namely, Micro Biology,, genetic Engineering,

Biomechatronics, and Tissue Engineering along with hostel

faculties and faculty housing.

1 Library

2 Institute of Microbiology

3 Institute of Tissue Engineering

4 Simulaiton Paviliion

5 Institute of Genetic Engineering

6 Institute of Biomechatronics

7 Archives

8 Auditorium

9 Administration Block

10 Hostel Block 1

11 Hostel Block 2

12 Hostel Block 3

13 Guest House

14 Dispensary

9 Residential Zone

10 Clinical research Center

site planning

The project is an introduction to site planning

of a comparatively smaller scale.

The task was to plan for a residential

development in an area of 6.55 acres. The

given site was planned after meticulous

calculations Dwelling Unit areas and FAR. And

later calculating the effective Density, water

requirement, and other physical and social

infrastructure.

residential development

SITE PLAN

PARKING LAYOUT

WATER SUPPLY NETWORK SEWAGE NETWORK STORMWATER DRAINAGE NETWORK

The task aimed at appropriate facilities and

infrastructure planning and management.

Highlighted the approach to incorporate

quantitative aspects of planning into the

qualitative domain of design.

tessellation models

Winning entry in the Micro PG category at the 11th International

Conference for Good Governance- Municipalika.

The paper highlighted application of tessellation planning in

solving certain micro level issues in housing programmes.

Slum improvement programmes do not address specifically to

certain micro level issues.The research aims to incorporate

tessellation planning to re-strategize models in slum free

planning, where relocation is the only solution for untenable

slums. The process also includes addressing micro level

issues through Tessellation planning for Acceptance.

Tessellation planning, or more specifically Honeycomb Housing

(in terms of residential typology of use), has an additive base

of:

- Mathematics: to support the geometry, layout and the desired

dwelling unit density. (QUANTITATIVE)

- Socio-cultural aspects: of space and relative proxemics,

human psychology and ethnic grouping. (QUALITATIVE)

to tackle issues in slum housing programmes

tessellation models

The Slum for which the model was designed is located in the heart of Rourkela

close to the Malgodam where the Freight Yard is present. It is a densely

packed slum/ basti situated on encroached railway land ,identified under RAY

Residents are majorly engaged in Steel Works, animal rearing, carpentry and

welding.

Infrastructure provided by the Municipality in-sufficient.

(Community taps present, absence of toilets -open defecation practiced,

presence of kutcha roads, and open drains)

to tackle issues in slum housing programmes

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Investigative Experiment: A Few Details

Area 8.8 Ha (~88000sq.m.)

Existing No of D.U.s 329

Existing Situation

(At present – as per

observations)

329

37 D.U. / Ha

10% of total area

About 3.9 kms

3.6 Ha

Estimated at 28% of total

area (including few roads

– existing and under

construction)

Expected Changes on

adopting a Tessellation

model

522 (increased by

about 1.58 times)

59 D.U. / Ha

About 38% of total area

About 2.4 kms

1.9 Ha

Estimated at 15% of

total area

Scenario

No. of D.U.s

Density

Green Open

Spaces

Road Length

Road Area

Concreted Area

tessellation models

The positive results encourages the use of tessellation for

planning. However, as the economic aspects of such form of

planning in Indian context has not been done earlier, a feasible

option would be to experiment by introducing it on small scale

model settlement systems.

to tackle issues in slum housing programmes