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Post partition in 1947, the Indian state of Punjab needed a new capital to replace Lahore.
The new capital of India was envisioned as the modern capital of India by Jawaharlal Nehru.
The site chosen was a farmland of 24 villages.
Location, central
Water supply available in the form of seasonal rivers.
Comfortable climate, i.e. a subtropical monsoon.
Proximity to building materials, required for large scale construction.
HISTORY
Mayer Nowiki prepared a Master Plan for a population of 500 thousand based on a system of
a low density neighborhood and defined by a grid of roads.Roads were slightly curved to
follow the contours of the site.
Le Corbusier simplified Mayer’s Curvilinear system by adopting the grid iron pattern of
straight roads.
Professional approach linking the body of the city with its symbolic head was bounded by
Multi-Storied buildings on one side and Parallel land on the other side.
Other main artery leads from the railway station and terminates at university.
CONCEPT
Biological Entity
PLANNING
The typical sector is a self sufficient neighborhood, with its own shopping centre, schools and
other community facilities.
For outdoor recreation, the sector greens cut through the heart of each neighborhoods
enabling the residents to view without obstruction the changing panorama of the Shivalik
range.
A sector is traversed only by slow traffic streets, the fast traffic roads are being restricted to
its periphery.
This ensures tranquility and safety within the living spaces. A novel feature of Chandigarh’s
master plan is the scheme of segregation, called the 7Vs (les Sept Voiles) developed by Le
Courbusier.
The system of roads symbolizes the structure of a tree, hierarchy and progressively branching
out from the stem to leaf and proportionately reduce in size in accordance with the quantum
of life to be carried.