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The Issue – “Redundancies enroute: Within Delhi’s grade separators, interchanges and rotaries, pockets of redundantspaces and surfaces such as flyover soffits, traffic islands, medians and roundabouts exist. Such features are permanentcomponents to our cityscape. While they are constantly on view (to commuters for example), there is scant engagementwith the city.”REDUNDANCIES ENROUTE ‐ The New Delhi Railway Station with its immediate precincts provides the railway trackcorridor to utilize multifunctionally, in creating multiple ground planes – an interactive urban park. Apart from thesethere do exist pockets of redundant spaces which discover new meaning through holistic interventions.AN URBAN PUBLIC SPACE :: “Any space that is free and available for use and enjoyment of the whole community,without regard to social, cultural, or economic background, may be considered a public space in the true sense.”URBAN DESIGN INTERVENTION :: There is strong need to think about and visualize new and interesting ways tomeet the challenges of incorporating left over redundant pockets into a rich urban experience (especially in theexciting opportunities available in the present development context.) The intervention in the compact urban districtof the New Delhi Railway Station, a tremendously high traffic zone, is an attempt to reinterpret Delhi’s Urbanism.CONCEPTUALISATION :: The design scheme is a statement to the process of giving a new direction to the changingcontext of urban open‐spaces for the public. They generate images of the whole gamut of social, cultural complexityand division, disparity, even conflict, represented in the population of a contemporary Indian town or city. Existingpublic spaces are overused and generally neglected when it comes to enhancing the quality of the spaces that havedeteriorated over time. The need of the hour is to incorporate landscaping ideas into such urban schemes that areaimed at utilizing such spaces in the city that are almost always neglected in the name of rigid functionality.SYSTEM OF LAYERS :: The Railway Corridor (Belt of Railway tracks) is considered as an Urban Open Space for the citywhich is left unutilized in the process of designing new open space systems. The design scheme looks into creatingmultiple layered grounds along the Railway Spine developing multi‐functional spaces. The open land tract isconceptualized as an Urban Park in the public domain.SYSTEM OF FORCES AND VECTORS :: The site can be viewed as a collective of Kinetic and Static forces.Kinetic: Moving trains, moving passengers | Static: Trains, Stationary Hawkers, Vendors, and Passengers in waiting.The design engages these vectorial lines and forces to generate a dynamic structure.GENERIC RAILWAY STATION URBAN PERIPHERAL PARK :: The design can be considered as a generic peripheral parkwhich could be replicated at strategic places adjacent to Railway stations providing multiple usages to the railwaycorridor. It addresses the issue of monofunctionality of such a land belt. The design perceives architecture andlandscape as an experiential art, enriching the urban experience.GREEN CONNECTIVE TISSUE :: The design proposes to connect the existing site and neighbourhood greens into atissue which runs from the Central Park of Connaught Place to the New Delhi railway Station environs. The variouslevels that have been created above the railway platforms are interspersed with greenery and street furniture.Entry‐courts, viewing decks, landscaped ramps, inter‐connected levels of platforms and a large cut‐out with trainsbelow, acts as an open‐air museum celebrating the splendor of a part of the biggest railway network in the world.ENTRY POINTS AND THEIR SIGNIFICANCE :: The Park can be entered through 4 entry points, each with its locationalsignificance. The major locations include Paharganj Ticket counter, Railway Reservation Counter, Ajmeri Gate Sideentry.JUSTIFICATION AND ADVANTAGES :: The landscaped area will be accessible to a huge and wide variety of public. Itwill also ensure utilization of the unused area above the railway tracks as well as the tract itself. Infact this is the bestplace in an urban area to have a landscaping project. The space will have the largest number and variety of visitors,everyday of the year. This space cannot be used for any other functional purpose. The Park would transform into amajor land‐mark in terms of form, scope and scale of the project.URBAN MORPHOLOGY :: TAKING CUES FROM THE EXISTING ‐ Street patterns penetrating landscape; the existingstreets of Shahjahanabad, Paharganj, and Connaught Place generate nodal points of entry into the Park. The randommorphological and hierarchial system of organization of Shahjahanabad and Paharganj is scrutinized and followed indeveloping the network of inter connected layers. The structure is a morphological abstraction replicating the logicand pattern system of the neighnourhoods. The design tries to breathe order into the chaotic urban fabric of theprecincts.AN ABSTRACTION OF THE TRADITIONAL :: An abstraction of traditional Indian design elements forms the basicframework. These include CHOWKS and CHABUTRAS. Tree as a central focal point, has been maintained by using theexisting flora of the site and precints.ECOLOGICAL AND CULTURAL PERSPECTIVE :: The design is an attempt to unify the scattered sporadic distributionof greens into a holistic network which serves the entire neighbourhood. The shaded spaces underneath thestructure generate partially cooled environments in the scorching heat of Delhi’s summers. The existing trees of thesite are left completely untouched; moreover courts and other civic amenity oriented spaces are developed aroundthem – to demonstrate design as an additive process.AN OBSERVATION DECK TO OBSERVE THE CITY ‐ AMPHITHEATRE :: The face of the structure lying adjacent toConnaught Place’s Outer Circle, rises up gradually to form an amphitheatre, which behaves as an observation deckto watch the city go by. The stage for the theatre is the city lying ahead, the immediate urban layer being ConnaughtPlace and the Central Park.OPEN AIR RAILWAY MUSEUM :: The segment of the structure lying immediately above the Car Shed forms the OpenAir Rail Museum. The static installation of engines, locomotives (spanning the entire Rail History of India) and thecomparatively static placement of Trains in the Car Shed, forms the perfect environ for such an event. Transitory andstatic objects as exhibits provide a dimension of dynamism required to generate directionality, flow and interestamongst the viewers.FOOD COURTS :: OPEN | SEMI OPEN ‐ Food Courts have been placed at strategic locations throughout the structureto cater to Railway passengers, tourists and city people in general.LANDSCAPING INTENT :: The landscape is developed as an aggregate of Softscape and Hardscape. The alreadyexisting Hardscape of the bouldered Railway tracks is softened using dry vegetation and planter beds. Placesallowing larger cutouts in the deck (larger inter track area), form Courts with ramps sliding along its edges to reachthe ground level and trees planted as focus points. The species of trees and vegetation are selected to suit minimalwater conditions.NIGHT SHELTER :: The shaded areas underneath the superstructure of the Urban Park act as night shelter during thenight for beggars, people sleeping on the streets. It in a way behaves as a multi‐functional space, which is used asshaded environs for the Railway Passengers in waiting, tourists and city dwellers during the day. Niches and partialcompartments are formed to generate semi‐private spaces.
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