Bus Q Shelter Has Wings!
‘Bus Q Shelter’ Design Competition by NDMC – 2001.This Bus Q Shelter has Wings! Wow! What Design! ;-) Refer the earlier Post at http://www.sandeepvij.blogspot.com/2018/04/ndmc-bus-stand-design-competition-year-2001.html . The Front Elevation and the Site Plan is being posted here, plus a portion of the Site Plan too.
In the Front Elevation you see the Balcony Railing, the other two front railings, the front of the shelter with space for ad panel towards the top, and also the rear ad panels. They also had a system of the ad panels’ area - meaning that the ad panels’ total area must not exceed a certain figure. All of that was calculated and the total ad panels’ area is within the limits. That area limit etc. is not detailed here in this post. You can also see that the rear ad panels are supported by their own structural columns, 100 MM dia 6MM thick MS pipes.
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| Front Elevation of Bus Q Shelter Design Competition Submission to NDMC, 2001 by Sandeep Vij Architect at http://www.google.com/+SandeepVijArchitectsNewDelhi - Benches, Ad Panels, Supporting Columns, Railings, ... |
In the Site Plan, you see how I have tried to guide the pedestrian while still a distance away from the Bus Q Shelter, to select his lane, ( :-) ) decide whether he has to enter the Bus Stand or not. If he/she needs to enter the Bus Stand then he/she will move towards the front. If not, he/she will move towards the rear. ‘Select from the diversion’. The pedestrian not intending to enter the shelter walks in one direction, the passenger waiting in the shelter walks in the perpendicular direction to that. So to prevent collisions between the two, I nudged the pavement walker towards the rear, and I had reminded myself initially while beginning the design that this is NDMC area, they have broad pavements. There can be space at the back. So the front is clear. He is not supposed to walk from towards the front. So people walk past from the rear. And if by error the city walker gets into the front lane then he/she can always move towards the rear by moving into and through the gap provided somewhere along the middle. Refer Site Plan Drawing. In fact I wanted to add another passage for the incidental rear lane strayer to allow himself/herself to come into the front lane too, but I don’t know why I thought that that may be an overkill. I restrained myself. But that stray rear entry wallah can still get towards the front by the same passage, only that he/she needs to go a little backward, as per this Design. That can be reworked though. In fact the reason of not going for a similar detour from the rear pavement was of possible ‘collision’. Then I thought that it was silly of me to think of collision, then I thought that perhaps it was not that silly to think of collision. Anyway, ‘possible collision’ between pedestrians (!) in the middle if they are changing lanes .. won. So there is that change lane provision in that direction that you see in the Drawing. In hindsight, I feel that I should have rather incorporated it - a similar arrangement in place for the accidental rear lane entry wallah. It is absolutely another matter that that may have been rejected, maybe outright. I mean both these ‘diversions’ for the “Holy Bus Stand” (ooh!) might have been scrapped. I don’t know. In fact this Site Plan was an “extra” from my side. It was not asked for. I prepared it from my own side, because my design asked for it. I exceeded the brief. I am proud of it. हम जब डिज़ाइन करते हैं तो हम कुएं के अंदर नहीं होते | हमारा व्यू वर्ल्डवाइड होता है | Our view is worldwide. We zoom in, we zoom out. वी ज़ूम इन, वी ज़ूम आउट | हम बहुत बड़ा दिल और बेहद ख़ास रवैया रखते हैं | आप कह सकते हैं की हम बड़े वो हैं ! On the serious side, I thought that this Design cannot exist in isolation. It has to take into account the surrounds – the entry from the side, front etc. It’s logic, isn’t it? Was I the first one ever in India to think like that (Site Plan must accompany the Bus Stand Plan) vis-a-vis the Bus Q Shelter Design? ;-) Unlikely perhaps? .. but I don’t know.
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| Site Plan of Bus Q Shelter Design Competition Submission to NDMC, 2001 by Sandeep Vij Architect at http://www.google.com/+SandeepVijArchitectsNewDelhi - diversions, guiding, Smart Design, Public Spaces, wings. Pavement, Urbanscape, Cityscape, Green, Landscaping, road, access, physically challenged friendly, ... |
The Part Site Plan is showing a portion of the Site Plan for better grasp, understanding. And you will notice now that there is actually a distance between the Bus Q Shelter and the metalled portion or the carriageway as mentioned in the last post. This Shelter is not just after the kerb and does not start immediately from the road. And there is also provision from the road to make entry into the Bus Stand. We can’t discount that. People will enter from the road. Steps have been provided towards the left and right of the front of this Bus Stand (kerb) at the places one of which is directly in front of the gap between the Balcony Railing and the Left Railing and the other one is “not” directly in front of the gap between the Balcony Railing and the Right Railing but abutting it. The Ramp for the physically challenged comes directly in front there. Refer the earlier Post and the Plan. So of course there is provision of a ramp for the physically challenged. And thus this is physically challenged friendly. Ramp Slope was worked out.
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| Part Site Plan of Bus Q Shelter Design Competition Submission to NDMC, 2001 by Sandeep Vij Architect at http://www.google.com/+SandeepVijArchitectsNewDelhi - Key Plan, diversion, guidance, Smart Designs, Public Space, Wing. Nudging, Order, Differently Abled, change course, wrong lane - doesn't matter, bus route nos sign board, ... |
Site Plan mentions the levels. The topography of the land at that place in Urbania may or not be flexible always but/and still the levels are there nevertheless. Some things are presumed. The Pavement is 300MM above the carriageway finished carpeted surface. The Ramp Slope is not 1:10, it is steeper, but not much. I don’t exactly recall the metrics of the same but the figures and the reason must be documented somewhere with me (not locatable at the moment). It is not trivia I know but not locatable. So if you are walking from towards the front of the Bus Stand then you may have to step a little down into the Ramp (perpendicular to the direction of the Ramp) and then take a step in the Ramp and then climb up back again. Slight drawback. And yes a further slight drawback is that you will step onto a slightly sloping surface (perpendicular to your movement) and not a level surface. This is trivia?, is it? Actually, when I design then these things come to the mind. And then I try to account for that. But then this is only a slight drawback that we wil have to live with. It is not much. But then again this can be further worked out.
There was another novelty in this Design actually but that is not shown in the Site Plan. It is in the Model. I had carefully worked out the ad panels area and provided an ad panel also in the landscaped portion just near to the left and right of the shelter at about eye level. It was a panel on a surface facing the rear lane of the shelter. It was almost parallel to it, albeit at a slight angle. This surface was part of an equilateral triangle. So there were two more panels. The second panel (or third or first whichever you look at it) was facing the 'front corner' of the bus stand. It had the bus route nos. mentioned! :-) Of course it was also at the same time facing the road at an angle. The last panel facing away from the front corner of the shelter but of course facing the road at an angle had the ‘Name’ of the Bus Stand mentioned. I thought that mentioning of the bus route nos. on one panel along with the name of the actual bus stand on another and clubbing it with an ad panel as the third panel was a good idea - 3 stuff on 3 panels, .. an equilateral triangle, .. eye level, .. serves all purpose, .. is smart etc. Photos of the Model were taken. They are with the Client. They never gave that to me. It was oversight on my part to not take its photos. The Model consists of the Bus Stand at the right ‘scale’ of course. Then, it also contains (in the same Model), the Shelter at a ‘larger scale’ so that the surrounds also come into the Picture. So here the Shelter gets shrunk and one can figure how segregation of pedestrians is done from a distance and the connection in the middle is there and the landscaping is also there. You understand that. And it was the first time, I learnt, that anyone had ever presented the Design of the same entity at two different scales in the same Model.
(And now everybody knows that I am no modesty blaze.) ;-)
About the ad panels area: It was supposed to not exceed a figure and not be even lesser than that figure and then there were limitations to the maximum and minimum area of the respective ad panels - front, rear, side. So I carved out another ad panel whilst still being in the mathematical limit, the zone. Actually I got a little bugged also. I mean, 'commerce', 'commerce' was more on their mind. And 'City, Design, pedestrians, people, India, Bharat, Architect, dribbling, flourishing, celebration, viscosity, value, substance, honour, swashbucklingness, smartness, cosmopolitanism, my work' was on my mind. So that is why I gave "shape" to their 'commercial intent' - their 'commerce'. I thought that when I provide them another place for an ad, they'll jump! So during the Presentation I feel they liked the novelty. It was not asked for. I designed it for them. I mean I conjured another place for them for their 'glorious ads', and in Style. ठोको ताली ?! In fact you do find that idea, design also replicated in some Bus Q Shelters around Delhi. I'll see if I can get their photos. :-) So 'Samraat type' (सम्राट टाईप) people find 'actual smartness' because of my work. .. स्मार्ट सिटी ..
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In the next post you will find the Side Elevations. So watch out for that.
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"Your Honour?, Shall We Build This City Now? Allow Me The Design Of Some Public Spaces." - यह मेरी आवाज़ आयी ! ;-)
Update 150519: The third post is at http://www.sandeepvij.blogspot.com/2019/05/line-of-sight-ndmc-bus-q-shelter-design-delhi.html .
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