Rural trade centre

an initiative towards smart villages

By,
Kumar avinash
5th year
2011-16 batch
Sunderdeep college of
architecture, Ghaziabad,
Up, india
 • Therefore its hard time now when
planners should start thinking about
smart villages also.
• Project: rural trade centre
• Project type: semi urban- rural project

• Rural trade centre is a small initiative towards smart villages

• Rural trade centre is a platform that provides equal
opportunities to the citizents of india (especially belonging to the
rural background ) to access their bussiness in their respective
fields( agriculture, dairy, poultry farming etc) and also share
their ideas and views with each other.
• Rural trade centre further provides financial as well as
institutional help for the same.

• Following aspects comes under rural trade centre:

 Grain depot(silos)
 Rural/ gramin bank;
 Showrooms of agricultural
tools, equipments, & machenery
 Vegetable market
 Grain market
 R & d labs
 Plant nurseries

• Everyone in india is
talking about smart
cities , digital india but
within this race for
making urban life smart
we have forgotten that
still 55% of population
in india is employed on
agriculture, agriculture
adds nearly about 16%
to the gdp, also india is
among the top five
producers of
agriculture crops;

• destipte of all these factors farmers suicide rate is increasing

day by day ; bad crops , lack of storage, low rates are forcing
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farmers to leave their occupations and move towards urban
settlements in search of better standards of living. rural trade centre
Rural trade centre is a space designed to incorporate all
the aspects of rural industry of india;such as
 Grain depot(silos)  Spice market
 Rural/ gramin bank;  Dairy
 Showrooms of agricultural  Cattle / poultry market
tools,equipments,&machenery  Workshops &seminar halls
 Vegetable market  Craft market (haat)
 Grain market  Store (regular &
 R & d labs cold storage)
 Plant nurseries  Guest houses
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v Rural trade centre is a platform that
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combines all the aspects of the rural
u industry of indian society and the
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concept is inspired from nuclei that
o combines all the atoms of a molecule
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c  Provision for two separate sets of movement on the site

h Pedesterian & vehicular(includes heavy trucks)
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l  Provide 24x7 servicibility
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 The site is in manesar , that experiences almost 8 monthes
n of high temperature along with harsh sun rays therefore
g provision of shed for pedestrian movement
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s  Protection from dust storm

Weighing bridge plays a very essential role

in smoothing of any industry,it is a
platform used to calculate the net weight
of the goods coming in heavy vehicle
Location of weighing bridge to
provide servicibility to various
markets, storage & industries is yet
another challenges on site

Solution to this
challenge was
found by centrally
erecting a weighing
tower which is
accessible from
each zones of the
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rural trade centre
site
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eastern elevation western elevation

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rural trade centre