PRE-FINAL

CASE STUDY

REPORT

Connaught PLACE, NEW DELHI

SUBMITTED BY:
Nikita
Neelu
Lakshay
Anubhav
Sahil
Anil
ABOUT THE SITE

Connaught Circus, fondly called “CP”, practically forms the City Centre of Delhi. It is
surrounded by organic dense developments of Old Delhi and Paharganj on the north
and the posh area of Delhi that of Lutyen’s Bungalow Zones, to the south.

Built as a commercial hub by the British it continues to function as one of the most
vibrant recreational and institutional space attracting local, regional and
international visitors through out the year.

The built form of CP is in the form of two concentric rings of commercial property
enclosing a central park which also functions as the access node while travelling by
metro or light passenger vehicles. The architectural character of the space is
predominantly of the Georgian English type.

Connaught Place, due to its location and connectivity by different modes as well as
spatial characteristics, acts as a hub for various facets of life in Delhi.
CLIMATE

High Temp: 25 °C
Low Temp: 11 °C
Mean Temp: 18 °C
Precipitation: 34.8 mm
Humidity: 66%
Dew Point: 11 °C
Wind: 6 km/h

DAYLIGHT HOURS
 DISTANCE FROM CENTRAL PARK

115 METRE 310 METRE

 ABOUT THE SITE
• The busiest metro station on DMRC network, ‘Rajiv
Chowk’ with 5 lakh passengers using it every day is
located below the Central Park inside CP. Rajiv Chowk
metro station is an interchange between blue and yellow
lines which connect Noida and Gurgaon respectively.
• Shivaji Stadium metro station at periphery of
Connaught Place, connects CP to the international
terminal of Indira Gandhi International Airport via an
express metro service. Hence, Connaught Place is not only
well connected to entire NCT, but boasts of good linkages
to exterior districts of the National Capital Region as well.
• Next is Sansad Marg or Parliament Street. It has the
Indian Parliament and Connaught Place as its two
terminal points. The Reserve Bank of India as well as
the medieval astronomical ‘observatory’ the Jantar
Mantar are situated here.
• After Sansad Marg lies Baba Kharak Singh Marg
where many state emporiums are located. The
Emporium complex has been redeveloped and plays
host to various festivals including the popular Delhi
Food Festival.
• Hanuman Mandir on BKS Marg draws visitors from
NCT Delhi as well as its satellite towns on Tuesdays and
weekends. Bangla Sahib Gurudwara is another highly
revered worship centre that draws crowds. Recently
developed DLF Capitol Complex, located between
Hanuman Mandir and Shivaji Stadium Metro Station is
a mechanized multilevel car park with high end car
showrooms which has been designed in consonance
with the façade famously associated with CP.
 TIME MANAGEMENT

Rajiv chownk metro station to B block : 2-3 min max

Time covered to complete block B : 1:30 hr
Time covered to complete block H : 1:30 hr

PUBLIC MOVEMENT
At 10:00am - 110 cars ,300 people
At 11:00am - 150cars ,700 people

VEHICULAR & PEDISTRIAN

1 vehicle in every 20sec
2 person in every 30sec
C I R C U L AT I O N O F C . P
 PROBLEMS
• Maintenance
• No dustbins
• Lack of street lights
• Less number of public
utilities Traffic movement on outer circle

SOLUTIONS

• Increase the development

• A rule should be made for
maintenance.

Well maintained grade separated subways on outer circle

Signalised pedestrian crossing on outer circle

Table top pedestrian crossing in inner circle
 TYPES OF SHOPS AT BLOCK B
 Elini( cs)
 Mobile store corner  Turn  Sketchers shoes
 Turn  Stuti (cs)  Us polo
 Public toilet outside  Woodland  Jockey
 Entrance to building  CCD (up)  Khutiala building (up)
 Ashray (cafe)
 Life cafe  Planet fashion  Option perfumes (corner)
 Bank of Baroda  Nike  Masjid
 H&M (backside)  Zen bar  Watch maker
 Connaught street  McD  Nirmala jewellers
 The colonnade  Phone charge  Jayanta photographer
 The chill cafe
 SBI  The colonnade  Panasonic
 Stairs  Bhagwan das  Raymond
 Syndicate bank(up)  Mohanlal sons  CCD
 Castle lunge (up &  Levis  Tourist service (up)
basement)
 John players(corner)  H&M (front)
 Turn  Show sons
 Shellka (cs)  Wilds craft
 W (cs)  Bata
 Raymond (cs)  Zodiac (cs)
 Stairs
 Bank of Maharashtra (atm)  Hotel (up)
 Lotto
 Aurelia (cs)
 Indian terrain (corner)
 AREA COVERED Auliya
masjid
K-Block
H-Block

Public C-Block
L-Block
toilets
B-Block D-Block
Parking
Moti space
masjid
Palika Central Park
vatika
Charkha
museum

Palika
Parking Albert art

Shopping and Palika

food complex Bazar
 SWOT

S-STRENGTHS T-THREATS
• Hawkers
• Entertainment , • Overcrowding
Social cultural, W-WEAKNESS O-OPPORTUNITY • Facade
leisure renovation
• Public interest • Increase
• Inadequate stakeholders
parking
• Lack of public
concern
• Neglect and
dilapidation of
facades
BUILDINGS
For all assembly buildings like, theatres, cinema houses, assembly halls, stadia;
educational buildings; markets, hospitals; industrial buildings and other buildings
which attract large crowd, the means of access shall not be less than the following:
S NO. WIDTH OF MEANS OF ACCESS LENGTH LENGTH OF MEANS OF ACCESS
(METER) (METER)
1 12.0 200
2 15.0 400
3 18.0 600
4 24.0 600

F O O T PAT H
Footpath should be normally designed for a pedestrian Level of Service (LOS) B,
thereby providing wide pedestrian facilities for safe, pleasant and comfortable
walking. The land use adjacent to roads significantly influences generation of
pedestrian traffic.
C A PA C I T Y O F F O O T PAT H A N D D E S I G N
S NO. WIDTH OF FOOTPATH Design Flow in Number of Persons Per Hour
(METER)
In Both Directions All in One Direction
LOS B LOS C LOS B LOS B
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 1.8 1350 1890 2025 2835
2 2.0 1800 2520 2700 3780
3 2.5 2250 3150 3375 4725
4 3.0 2700 3780 4050 5670
5 3.5 3150 4410 4725 6615
6 4.0 3600 5040 5400 7560

The land use adjacent to roads significantly influences generation of

pedestrian traffic.
 R E Q U I R E D W I D T H O F F O O T PAT H A S P E R A D J A C E N T L A N D
USE

S NO. DESCRIPTION WIDTH

(METER)

1 Minimum free walkway width and residential/mixed 1.8

use areas
2 Commercial/Mixed use areas 2.5
3 Shopping frontages 3.5 to 4.5
4 Bus stops 3
5 High intensity commercial areas 4

PATHWAYS
The length of the pathway shall not be more than 30 m. The safety concern of cyclists
and pedestrians should be addressed by encouraging the construction of segregated
rights of way for bicycles and pedestrians.
A C C E S S F R O M H I G H W AY S / I M P O R TA N T R O A R D S
No premises other than highway amenities like petrol pumps, motels, etc, shall have an
access direct from highways and such other roads not less than 52 m in width, which
the Authority with the approval of the highway authority shall specify from time to
time.
 COMMUNITY OPEN SPACES AND AMENITIES -
In any layout or sub-division of land measuring 0.3 ha or more in residential and
commercial zones.
No recreational space shall generally be less than 450 m2.
The minimum average dimension of such recreational space shall be not less than 7.5 m; if
the average width of such recreational space is less than 24 m, the length thereof shall
not exceed 2.5 times the average width.

PARKING-
In buildings of mercantile (commercial), industrial and storage type, in addition to the
parking spaces provided, a space at the rate of 3.5 m × 7.5 m, shall be provided for
loading and unloading activities, for each 1 000 m2 of floor area or fraction there of.
Parking spaces shall be paved and clearly marked for different types of vehicles.

STAIRCASE / EXIT REQUIRMENTS -

Minimum clear width = 1.5 meter