" SAINT-GOBAIN TT OL 14.0 PraNSPARENGE COMPETITION BRIEF Supported by “rtTRANSPARENCE 14.0 SAINT-GOBAIN wortranparence in Saint-Gobain Saint-Gobain, the world leader in Habitat, with operations in 66 countries, designs, manufactures and distributes materialsand solutions that can be found everywhere in our living places and our daily life: in buildings, transportation, and infrastructure and in many ‘industrial applications. These materials and solutions provide comfort, performance and safety while addressing the challenges of sustainable construction, resource efficiency and climate change Saint-Gobain’s Glass business in India manufactures a wide variety of flat glass products and offers solutions that continue to shape the Indian construction industry. SGIPL produces a wide range of float glass products - Clear Glass, Tinted Glass, Energy Efficient Performance Glass, Mirrors, Designer Glass and glass for special high-performance applications including Fire Safety. ‘With over 17 years of presence in India, and a unique pan-India manufacturing footprint with plants in Bhiwadi (Rajasthan), Jhagadia (Gujarat) & Sriperumbudur (Tamil Nadu), Saint-Gobain today is considered as a strong Technology and Market Leader. For more, visit: wivw.in.saint-gobain-glass.com Ethos “Knowledge is Power.” Ethos was started sixteen years ago by Gita Balakrishnan, as a response to a need to build awareness on our built environment; a need to bridge the gap between students undergoing education in colleges and the outside professional world; a need to provide more opportunities to budding professionals and to create aplatform, a network of young designers and civil engineers who are to be decision-makers in the years to come. Ethos works towards sensitizing students of architecture and civil engineering to the culture and the ethos that their designs would need to respond to. There is an effort to equip students to be agents of change, to lead and not just follow and to contribute towards building of a harmonious society. This has been further facilitated by creation of ACEDGE - an online platform to provide education outside classrooms. Ethos’ main objective is to be the wind beneath the wings of young minds that are to shape our built environment in the years to come. << ethosspurts TRANSPARENCE 14.0 SAINT-GOBAIN wortranparence in Competition Curator - Studio Symbiosis STUDIO SYMBIOSIS: ‘Studio Symbiosis Architects is a multi-disciplinary architectural practice based in Dethi, London and Stuttgart with focus on cutting edge contemporary architecture, co- founded by Amit Gupta and Britta Knobel Gupta. They have completed their post graduate degrees from Architectural Association London and have worked with Zaha Hadid Architects on many award winning projects. The design philosophy is to create integrated design solutions imbibing amalgamated, efficient, robust and sustainable designs leading to performative architecture. The research and intent of the practice isto create performance as a design driver, to achieve sustainable and smart buildings. Studio Symbiosis has won Intemational Competitions to design Gwalior Railway Station and Bengaluru's Baiyappanahalli Railway Station. Their other key projects include Double Tree by Hilton Ahmedabad (2018), 1200-acre Trans Ganga Masterplan in Kanpur (2018), Hilton Kathmandu (under construction}, Eco Park located in Delhi which will be the biggest bio diversity park in India, and Punjab Kesari Headquarter opening 2019 (winner of International property awards for Best Office Project). The office is an international award winning practice winning Rethinking the Future, German Design Award World Architecture Community, A Design Award, 40 under 40 Europe, 40 under 40 Asia Pacific, Hospitality Architect of the Year IDE and International Property Awards to name a few. The partners of Studio Symbiosis have been invited to speak at TEDx Bremen Germany, Smart Geometry Hong Kong, AIT conference Hamburg, AYDA Kuala Lumpur along with a number of other international and Indian conferences. supores ty !TRANSPARENCE 14.0 SAINT-GOBAIN wortranparence in Competition Theme Keeping up with current times and advances happening across the globe, the infrastructure and facilities in India are getting modernized in the last decade. These changes are at par with international standards and have also been contextualized to meet the needs and requirements of users. This year Transparence is looking at the modernization of railway stations - an initiative already being put into action by the Indian Government. The theme of Transparence 14.0 is “RAILPORT: Future-Read A railway station is no Longer just a place to book tickets and board or de-board a train. It has become one of the leading service-oriented industries in the country, offering ‘employment to many, by becoming the center of many service-providing industries, ‘innovations and start-ups. Stations are expanding to accommodate various facilities for passengers, to allow for the diverse socio-economic demographics of theend-users.. Modernization of railway infrastructure not just cater to the present demands, but to accommodate the projected needs of future generations in the next 40 years - which also includes considerable increase in footfall. This requires adequate services for the increased number of passengers as well as efficient security systems and management of passenger circulation and vehicular movements. Such infrastructural developments cannot be seen in isolation. Land parcels around railway stations should be developed to meet these high demands. They form anefficient ‘and sustainable economic model where the income from development of adjacent land in a holistic manner helps in generating revenue for development of services at the railway station. Therefore, these parcelsneed to be developed along with their context in an inclusive manner catering to future demands of the railway station and its precinct as well as the city and theregion. =<. ethosTRANSPARENCE 14.0 SAINT-GOBAIN wortranparence in Design Problem A railway station is usually one of the most crowded areas of a city. The roads leading to railway stations have slow-moving traffic owing to overcrowding fram vehicles entering and exiting the station and inefficient traffic management. There are private vehicles, auto-rickshaws, taxis, buses etc. which are dropping off and picking up passengers. This overcrowding can be experienced within the railway platforms as well. This could create dangerous situations forcing passengers closer to the edge of the platform. The platforms are crowded as they handle passengers de-boarding from trains and those waiting. Other railway services such as loading of heavy luggage and goods, catering and bedding materials, porter services etc. often add to this overcrowding issue. With increased footfall in the future, effective design solutions would beneeded to solve these problems. The aim of this design competition is to design a Railway Station and do a conceptual level master-planning of the precinct that can help users through improved Circulation and decrease of conflict areas, thereby making it a effective and efficient landmark public area in the city. As per the modernization measures being Undertaken by the Ministry of Railways, separate entry and exits for passengers, and separate arrival and departure area for vehicles will help in security arrangements and effective circulation and traffic management. Need for this and appropriate solution for the same will also need to be focused on. Transparence 14.0 calls for a focus on the micro and the macro. 1. MICRO: The railway station, including: + Main station building that includes offices and services of Indian railways, public facilities for the passengers, distinct entry and exits + The common concourse level that connects to all the platforms and has various ‘amenities for the passengers + Atypical platform design providing different services for passengers. Only a 50 meters long stretch of the typical platform to be detailed out. 2. MACRO: Overall (conceptual) master planning of the railway station precinct, including: ‘+ Urban blocks ONLY on Parcel 1 for commercial use: Only a volumetric indication is required. Buildings need not be detailed out. + Circulation and landscaping: Onty designation of areas as green, built-up, paved etc. is expected and not detailed landscape plans or master-plans. + Parking: surface parking + multi-level public parking structure. Demarcate the site allocated for parking and conceptual massing for the structure. suppored by 1TRANSPARENCE 14.0 SAINT-GOBAIN wor Aranparence.in Site The project site is the Anand Vihar Junction Station of the Indian Railways. Northern Indian Railways started operations of this station in 2010. This railway station caters to major east-bound trains originating from here. The adjacent Old Anand Vihar Railway Station (not part of site) caters to the Delhi Ring Rail. This station is significantly located ‘on the Dethi-Uttar Pradesh border catering not only to the residents of Dethi, but also to the adjoining NCR city of Ghaziabad and other nearby cities of Uttar Pradesh. The station sin proximity to one ofthe major inter-state bus terminals ofthe city Anand Vihar 1ST, serving a population traveling towards and from the states of Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand and Madhya Pradesh. It is also in the vicinity of the Anand Vihar Metro Station - interchange station for Blue and Pink lines of Delhi Metro - making this area the hub of inter-modal transport in East Delhi. Passengers exiting from the railway station ‘an easily travel to any part of Dethi NCR and other towns of Uttar Pradesh. The Anand Vihar Station currently has seven platforms. It sees daily footfall of approximately 1,20,000 peaking at 13,000 at a time for 2019 and is estimated to nearly double to 2,36,000 peaking at 25,000 in 2038. The station is connected to the Anand Vihar Metro Station and the ISBT through a pedestrian foot-over-bridge. There is vehicular ‘access from the Chaudhri Charan Singh Marg on the east of the site. The land parcels {or future development are currently lying vacant. They have to be developed for future commercial purposes. Csnsh ANAND VIEAR Pp est wae scarica) Foc SS [Map showing te regional context around the ste (Not to Scale) ‘Supported by 2 ethos!il TRANSPARENCE 14.0 SAINT-GOBAIN wor Aranparence.in Projet Scope for Tamparence 140, She frea-56153359m sting Ralway Serie Ares-93754 73% Paral 12200637? Papel 2 Patterns) 8235770" Parel2- 95402900" Onn oom ag ting Dckyard-7600440? Please note: + ONLY Parcel 1 and Parcel 2 (Platforms) to be developed as part Macro and Micro for Transperence 14.0 submission. = Site drawing provided separately in PDF (,pdl, AutoCAD (.dwg) and Google Earth (kz) formats. suepores>yTRANSPARENCE 14.0 SAINT-GOBAIN wortranparence in Bye Laws + Permissible Floor Area Ratio (FAR) 1.0 This FAR is applicable on the entire 56.7 hectares of land. The development air rights of the railway station are transferable to the development parcels i.e. a maximum of 5,67,000m total built up area can be developed on Parcel 1 and for the railway station building + Total Built-up Area 5,67,000m? + Maximum Built-up Area of Railway Station building 36,500m* + Maximum Built-up area for master plan development 5,30,500m? + Maximum Permissible Ground Coverage (only for parcel 1#2) 30% + Maximum Permissible Height, NA + Heights for: + Topof platform from railway track e0mm-1065mm + Minimum Clear height for platform 4.2m + Minimum Concourse level height from railway track 6.25m Minimum + Minimum green belt area 15% + Minimum front setback 15m + Minimum side setback Rm + Minimum rear setback 12m + Parking Requirements 3ECS per 100 sq.m of built area (includes surface parking and/or basement parking and/or multi-tevel public parking in Parcel 1. Calculate parking in reference to station area only) Area Program (For Railway Station building) + Entrance and Ticketing 15% of built-uparea Ticketing counters, entrance lobby, cloak rooms, passenger amenities, etc. + Administration 15% of Built-uparea Office spaces for railway employees, administration block, etc + Arrival Area 20% of built-up area Arrival corridors and lounges, passenger amentles, retail stores, calé, etc. + Departure Area 50% of built-up area Departure concourse, transfers, waiting areas, lounges, passenger amenities, retail stores, café, food courtetc. [os eer ? ethos!il TRANSPARENCE 14.0 SAINT-GOBAIN wortranparence in Design Submission Competition Format + Transparence 14.0 is open to undergraduate students of architecture and design. Recent graduates from 2019 are also eligible to participate. + Teams to comprise of a maximum of threemembers. + It isa two-stage competition, First stage: Regional Juries - North, South, East and West. Second Stage: Grand Finale. + Teamswillbe shortlisted by an online jury and wouldbe invited to present (closed jury) at the Regional jury. The venue for the first stage regional juries will be communicated to all the participants. ‘= Top two teams from each region would be invited to the Grand Finale to make a presentation before a selected panel of jury. Submission Format + It isan ONLINE SUBMISSION. + Amaximum of twelve A3 sheets (landscape orientation) with a readable scale of drawing and legible text. All sheets are to be compiled into a SINGLE PDF (258 maximum). + Your name or any identification should not feature on the sheets. The pdf file should be named by the participants’ first names followed by the college name. For instance if abc isthe participant from xyz college, the file name would be “abc_xy2”. In case, abc is sending multiple entries, the subsequent files will be names as “abct_xy2” “abc2_xyz" and so on. We will assign ID numbers to each submission to ensure anonymity. + Please restrict your word limit on the sheets to 100-150 words per sheet. + Include the North arrow for the plans and a graphical scale for ALL drawings. + Include a summarized area statement of your design with reference to the byelaws on not more than single A4sheet. + Please note again that the ste, brief and theme provided to you is for purely academic urposesandishypothetical in nature. It is advisable to direct any questions regarding the competition to Team Ethos only. suppored by 1il TRANSPARENCE 14.0 SAINT-GOBAIN ww tranparercein Evaluation Criteria + Concept and design intent + Originality + Response to the context ‘+ Atea program: Understanding the working and circulation of passengers and vehicles within a railway station. + Efficient use of space: Macro and micro designsolutions + Hierarchy of spaces + Efficient use of renewable resources such as water and energy. + Translation of concept to final design. Awards = Rogional Winners: Rs.20000/- per team, a certificate and an opportunity to win the coveted National Trophy. + National Winner: Rs.75000/- per team, a trophy and a certificate + National First Runner-up: Rs.50000/- per team, a trophy and a certificate. ‘+ National Second Runner-up: Rs.25000/- per team, a trophy and a certificate. + Allparticipants with submissions that are found technically complete by the jury will be awarded a certificate. Important Dates + Registrations last date: December 16th, 2019 (Monday) + Last date of submissio 11.55pm December 22nd, 2019 (Sunday) HR S:p0%00, 2 ethos!