Urban Redevelopment - Sadiq Nagar
Project Type
Real-world Undergraduate Architecture Design Studio Project
Team
Divleena Singh
Himashu Garg
Radhika Ravindran
My Role
Researcher
Project Duration
5 Months
Architect for Public Spaces and Commercial Areas
Sarth Khare
Semester Objective-
"To understand this unique city location and develop a built-form open space structure based on the given program which is a model of humane and sustainable development."
Overview
The Vision of the Delhi Masterplan 2021 is to make the city a global metropolis and a world class city. All citizens would live and work in a sustainable environment and be assured a better quality of life than the previous generations. Understanding the directives of the Masterplan we had to carry out intense re-development in Sadiq Nagar, a South Delhi residential colony for government employees.
The land-use as per the Masterplan is residential the site will be predominantly residential, hence the objective is to meet the huge deficit of rental housing required by the Central Government for its employees. The other part of the development will be commercial to address the Masterplan deficit of retail as well as office spaces and work related infrastructure needs.
Project Area
49 Acres
Areas Program
800 Housing Units
15 Acre Office Block
8 Acre Retail Facilities
Tools
Case Studies
Physical Context Study
Transport Network Study
Imagability Study
Structural Design
Massing & Affinity Maps
Concept Development
Site Research
The research started with understanding the site — the precinct, edges, connectivity, area zoning, typology, by-laws and the urban character. Here is a summary of these analyses.
Using the learnings from the Site-Research, we arrived at the following conclusions about the massing, zoning and green areas within the site. Our aim was to create a private unhindered sense of space for the housing blacks and a landmark in the visual axis for the commercial blocks.
Design Concept
