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Extending the City

By: DADA and Partners, Gurugram.
Publisher: New Delhi Burda Media India Private Limited 2019Edition: Vol.36(7), July.Description: 70-77p.Subject(s): URBAN PLANNING AND DESIGN (AR-UPD)Online resources: Click here In: Architecture+DesignSummary: The master plan creates a blueprint for a high density community at the periphery of Ahmedabad’s urban city core. The primary plan draws inspiration from the way of life in which residents still embrace mixed-use fabric; a way of life where public open spaces and bazaars are frequented by the community year round, a nod to the very essence of urban coexistence. At the most fundamental level, the plan firmly sets the intent for a new town that is held together by a genuine and active public realm, while optimising the insatiable and prosaic demand for high density development parcels. The plan departs from the initial insular built phase at GGC, and instead proposes a bold new urban open space for the city along the built iconic GGC Boulevard. A one kilometre long shaded retail colonnade lines the western edge of this urban space while the opposite edge is defined by a well-articulated mixed-use built podium edge with housing towers above. This primary north-south citywide armature is crossed by a scaled-down neighbourhood connector. At one end of this cross-armature is the large city level clubhouse, and as one moves across the central park it transitions into an intensely used pedestrian environment surrounding high density housing blocks.
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The master plan creates a blueprint for a high density community at the periphery of Ahmedabad’s urban city core. The primary plan draws inspiration from the way of life in which residents still embrace mixed-use fabric; a way of life where public open spaces and bazaars are frequented by the community year round, a nod to the very essence of urban coexistence.

At the most fundamental level, the plan firmly sets the intent for a new town that is held together by a genuine and active public realm, while optimising the insatiable and prosaic demand for high density development parcels.

The plan departs from the initial insular built phase at GGC, and instead proposes a bold new urban open space for the city along the built iconic GGC Boulevard. A one kilometre long shaded retail colonnade lines the western edge of this urban space while the opposite edge is defined by a well-articulated mixed-use built podium edge with housing towers above. This primary north-south citywide armature is crossed by a scaled-down neighbourhood connector.

At one end of this cross-armature is the large city level clubhouse, and as one moves across the central park it transitions into an intensely used pedestrian environment surrounding high density housing blocks.

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