Chandigarh

and
Bhubaneshwar
city planning

Asst.Prof.Archana Sreedharan
Ingredients Chandigarh Bhubaneshvar

AREA Chandigarh Bhubaneswar covers

covers an area an area
of of
approximately approximately
114 km² 91.9414 square
kilometers

POPULATION The city was The city was

designed for designed for
500,000 People 40,000 people

ARCHITECT LE CORBUSIER, OTTO

the famous French KOENIGSBERGER,
Architect planner, architect, planner and
to have actually Egyptologist,
been executed. enjoyed a long and
It is also the site of remarkable career that
some of his greatest began with
architectural work as a government
creations. architect in Berlin in
the 1930s.

Asst.Prof.Archana Sreedharan
Ingredients Chandigarh Bhubaneshvar

CONCEPT Le Corbusier conceived The concept of "action

the master plan of planning" –community
Chandigarh as based schemes
analogous to human supported by
body government agencies –
The concept of the city into many parts of the
based on four major third World.
functions :-
• Living( residential
sector)
• Working( capitol
complex, city centre
educational and
industrial area)
• Care of a body and
spirit( leisure valley ,
open spaces )
• Circulation (different
types of roads known
as 7V)

Asst.Prof.Archana Sreedharan
Ingredients Chandigarh
ZONING The primary module of
city’s design is a Sector,
a neighborhood unit of
size 800 meters x 1200
meters.
Each SECTOR is a self
sufficient unit
having shops, school,
health centers and
places of recreations
and worship.
The population of a
sector varies between
3000 and 20000
depending upon the
sizes of plots and
the topography of
the area.
Asst.Prof.Archana Sreedharan
Bhubaneshvar
Each neighborhood
unit accommodates
major amenities of life
– schools, clinics,
shopping centers,
libraries, etc.
Easy walking distance
even for a child.
Fairly high density unit
can hold up to 5000 to
6000 people.
a cross-section of
population from
various social and
professional groups in
good proportion
formed the
neighbourhood units.
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NEIGHBOURHOOD PLAN -BY OTTO H. KOENIGSBERGER

Asst.Prof.Archana Sreedharan
 IDEA OF LE CORBUSIER
The city of Chandigarh is planned to human
scale.

• Head–capitol (place of power)

• Heart –the city centre
• Stomach–the commercial area
• Arms–university and Industrial zone
• Lungs–leisure valley ,open spaces
• Arteries–network of roads

Asst.Prof.Archana Sreedharan
Asst.Prof.Archana Sreedharan
Le Corbusier created sector in its design . Each sector has its self
sufficient unit with residential ,shopping, institutional , commercial
area. Each sector also has its own green space around which all houses
are design

Asst.Prof.Archana Sreedharan
 1200m x 800m standard size of each sector

Using his sector as module he then placed several of

these modules to create the grid pattern.

Asst.Prof.Archana Sreedharan
Asst.Prof.Archana Sreedharan
Ingredients Chandigarh Bhubaneshvar
RESIDENTIAL Modular type To avoid boredom and
residence-(standard uniformity the
sizes, view from the neighborhood units are
street, same visual designed individually
order and maintain with the object of
uniformity. giving it a distinct
character.

INSDUSTRIAL Industrial sector has Less concentration

been concentrated has been given to
more. industrial sectors.

COMMERCIAL Main commercial zone Each residential zone

has been designed and was designed with
each residential zone small commercial
was designed with complex.
small commercial
complex.

Asst.Prof.Archana Sreedharan
Asst.Prof.Archana Sreedharan
Ingredients Chandigarh Bhubaneshvar

TRANSPORTATION The roads of the city Four categories of roads

are classified into have been adopted for
seven categories, the city viz.
known as the system
of 7 Vs, as below: (a) Arterial Road,
(b) Major Unit Road,
V-1 -- Fast roads (c) Major Housing Street
Connecting and
Chandigarh to other (d) Minor Housing street.
towns;
V-2 -- arterial roads;
V-3 -- Fast vehicular
roads;
V-4 -- Meandering
shopping streets;
V-5 -- Sector
circulation roads;
V-6 -- Access roads
to houses;
V-7 -- footpaths and
cycle tracks
Buses will ply only on
V-1, V-2, V-3 and V-4
roads.
A wall shall seal the
V-3 roads from
the sectors.
Asst.Prof.Archana Sreedharan
CORBUSIER’S CONCEPTUAL SKETCH SHOWING THE V-ROADSYSTEM

Asst.Prof.Archana Sreedharan