Parth Sureshbhai Patel

UD4001

Imagining life with active nodes

The studio is aimed at learning the key aspects involved in preparing a large?scale urban design master plan.  The emphasis of the studio will be on exploring the design process through various concepts and approaches, achieving a detailed design resolution, evolving an appropriate development model and to prepare a persuasive communication and representation strategy for the master plan. The studio uses the Township Policy as the basis for initiating the development.   Through the studio, the students will prepare a three – dimensional urban design proposal for this area with proposed massing, height, densities, orientations, grids and blocks, movement routes both for pedestrians and vehicles and the location and role of public open spaces in the plan. The studio will have underlying concerns focused on the creation of liveable neighbourhoods, imageability of a  place along with the issues of land economics and development mechanisms.   The process would involve the following stages:  ? Site and context appraisal  ? Existing policy review  ? Preparing a vision statement   ? Preparing the development model   ? Opportunities and constraints   ? Design concepts and strategies  ? Three?dimensional urban design proposal – Master Plan  ? Detail design of various aspects of the master plan  ? Urban design guidelines  ? Phasing strategy   


Report Content

Site Analysis

Objective - Design Strategy

Green spine & Activity nodes

Life Along the activity node

Urban Block along Green spine

All modes with neighborhood plaza

T-Frame character image

Urban block along Pedestrian street

Guideline along Pedestrian street

Master plan