SCHOOL OF PLANNING AND ARCHITECTURE

POORNIMA UNIVERSITY

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN- VI
IV YEAR, VII SEM
MAJOR DESIGN PROBLEM: Integrated Township and building design
(Case study parameters)
INTEGRATED TOWNSHIPS PLANNING AND BUILDING DESIGN:
Integrated township will be the seventh semester major design problem. Integrated
township is clusters of housing and commercial businesses with associated infrastructure
such as roads, schools, hospitals, convenience shopping, water treatment plants, drainage
and sewage facilities.
NEED OF THE PROJECT:
With urban areas getting more crowded and falling increasingly short on future
development potential, integrated townships have been identified as a potential solution
to this urban problem. The National Housing & Habitat Policy, also laid greater emphasis
on the aspect of “Habitat” as a supplementary focus to housing.as increase in
urbanization there is need for such kind to self-sustain integrated township as new urban
agglomeration within city or around the city as urban extensions.
OBJECTIVE:
Integrated townships are rather complex with more open areas and an emphasis on
creating a sustainable living neighborhood ecosystem with residential and commercial
spaces supported by an infrastructure backbone of power, roads, water, drainage and
sewage - a virtual living and breathing city.
DESIGN ISSUES:
Integrated townships are designed to house a large number of families as well as
commercial establishments. Infrastructure is pivotal in making such developments
inhabitable and commercially viable. The focus of integrated townships is towards
creating affordable housing as well as infrastructure development.
SELECTION OF CASE STUDY :
Students have to do case study of the three townships and come up with the data
collection and case study submission after the summer vacations 17 th July 2017
it is recommended to study the maximum occupied neighborhood so as to study and
analyses the issues, needs and quality of living within township due to designing and
layout of neighborhood.
ONE live case study through personal site visit.
TWO literature case study through books and internet.
FOLLOWING POINTS ARE NEED TO BE CONSIDER WHILE
SELECTING THE CASE STUDY
The area of the township should be approximately around the 25-30 hectors
with cluster of various building and plotting typologies as follows
100 -125 sq.m, 130-140sqm, 175-200 sqm,300 sqm ,400 sqm
The constraint regarding case study selection is to relate your design problem
with your case study
comparative analysis of all three case studies.
SWOT Analysis after the case study to derive conclusion or inferences.

PARAMETERS FOR CASE STUDY

Following are the various parameter suggested for the case study so as it will guide
the students before doing site visit. All these are design considerations for study as
well as design both.
1. City Level Analysis (Varies as per the sites located in various cities)
• Introduction about the city where your township located.
• Need of the township within the specific area of the city.
• Physiography/ topography of the city and its adjacent areas: landscape studies
• Infrastructure and services within the city
• Tentative density distribution within the city with residential areas
• Climatic data analysis for that city
• Study of street picture: traditional areas, transitional areas, public places
• Built form studies: typology, Study of the various building typologies present in
the city.
• (contemporary and traditional)
• landmarks, historical etc. regulations/municipal
• Culture and tradition of inhabitants.

2. Site and Surrounding:

Connectivity and accessibility to the site area through road network
Landmark around the site
Site topography
3. Bylaws and township policy
Bylaws study on the basis of township design policy for the city where township is located.
Critical analysis of bylaws and its implementation while designing the township layout. Area
analysis as per bylaws.
Rajasthan Township Policy and town and country planning guidelines for township design

Building height, block dimensions, site setback, Road width, Building façade.

4. Architectural and site layout study

Street character (residential street /commercial or market street/ local vegetable market
within the neighbourhood)
Street hierarchy as per right of way of street and networking pattern within site
Street sections and analysis of it.
Architectural style
Building typologies
Built Form Elements and Massing
Cluster formation
Hierarchy of open spaces- building block level, cluster level, site level
Density of population (current density, expected density with phase wise development and
township planned for maximum occupancy)
Density distribution within site
Comparative analysis of the density pattern.
Layout of other amenities and its inter-relationship with buildings

5. Services:
Based on the design and layout plan following services needs to be analysed
during their site visit
1. Water supply- fresh water supply, recycled water use, capacity of water required for
existing and future population, fire fitting requirement, rainwater harvesting and use of it,
impact of built mass on rainwater harvesting, Site drainage pattern, water treatment
mechanism or water treatment plant.
2. Solid waste :( Sewage and dry and wet garbage disposal)
A. Sewage
Sewage- sewage treatment plant designed within the site, capacity of sewage
treatment plant, future considerations while designing it. Considerations while
Locating sewage treatment plant.
B. dry and wet garbage disposal-

dry and wet garbage: -capacity of dry and wet garbage generated, ways of disposal,
separate mechanism for dry and wet garbage disposal, sustainable methods for
disposal of dry and wet garbage, recycling of the liquid waste/ dry waste.
Transportation- connection of city transport with neighbourhood, internal
transportation system which will connect to city transport, provision of green
transportation within the
neighbourhood. Last mile connectivity through paratransit (cycle rickshaw/ battery
operated rickshaw/ township buses)
Parking requirement- individual personal parking space, parking lots , visitors
parking spaces, parking requirement as per by-laws, multilevel parking spaces,
surface parking, basement parking, commercial parking spaces allotted only for
commercial areas.
Electrical supply- through the municipal corporation or separate power substation
for electrical supply, electrical rooms, LT Pannel rooms.
6. Social Interaction-
(Identify the various age group residing within the township and their occupational
and work pattern study)
Through the discussion with users, or Inhabitants, visitors to that townships
Issues can be identified
Infrastructural Needs or requirement of inhabitants can be identified
On the basis of the above study quality of living within that area need to be
analysed by suitable case study

7. Landscape plazas
Covered, semi- Covered open spaces, plazas, recreational spaces, playground
8. PubIic reaIm
Streetscape Elements,
Public spaces
Public art
Signage's

9. Infrastructure-
Day care center, commercial area, religious, school, recreation facilities (refer
UDPFI guidelines for requirement of infrastructure)
Types of commercial development (shopping mall, commercial street market,
vegetable market, shopping plaza)
10. Use of technology for better functioning
11.Security and safety provisions-
12.Sustainability and Resource utilisation
Use of renewable non-renewable resources
Use of sustainable material
Sustainable techniques for resource utilization

13. Economic viability of project- Market trends and Its impact on site layout,
cost of project, investment and probable, factors affecting cost of the project. Profit
gained through project.
14. Phase wise development- how the phase wise development planned, current
position of project, time required for completion of various phases. Project
development with various phases
15. Transition Spaces/ Transformation within site
Consideration for future development (space for future extensions, population
growth etc)
If Unplanned growth if any within site
Detail layout of building typologies its evolution in various context. (cultural
aspect/ market needs and trends/ special considerations like tourism, certain kind of
working community like IT staff,)
Guidelines/ restrictions for the present development
Guidelines for the future development within the site.
16. Project Stakeholders and Ownership pattern
17. Issue identification and its impact on quality of living within
township
18. References
Nodal Development creating compact, complete, mixuse
communities(www.rdn.bc.ca)
Introduction to Residential Layout by Mike Biddulph
Upton Design Code
Urban Design Compendium 2 second edition
(www.urbandesigncompendium.co.uk)

19. Probable case studies

Vidyadhar Nagar, Vatika Infotech City, Grand City Mangalam and Omaxe City
inJaipur,magarpatta city,pune, Amanora pune,etc.
Submissions:
Every student need to submit the case studies individually. All three case
studies should be in form of hard copy and all drawings and data should be in
readable and presentable format with photographic documentation on A2
sheets.
 Site Detail
• Site Features:
• AREA: 3,00,00 SQ.M (30 ha)
• SHAPE: P shape
• LOCATION:
• ORIENTATION AND AXES:

• ALL DIMENSIONS
ARE IN METER

• NOT TO SCALE