ROAD NETWORK

• JAIPUR’S ROAD NETWORK FOLLOWS A DEFINITE HIERARCHY.

• THE MAJOR EAST-WEST AND NORTH-SOUTH ROAD ,FORM THE SECTOR BOUNDARIES AND ARE CALLED RAJMARG AS THEY LEAD TO THE CITY GATES.
THESE MEASURE 33M. WIDE.
• NEXT THERE IS A NETWORK OF 16.5M WIDE WHICH RUNS NORTH-SOUTH IN EACH SECTOR LINKING THE INTERNAL AREAS OF THE SECTORS TO THE
MAJOR ACTIVITY SPINE.
• AN ORTHOGONAL GRID OF 8.25MX4.00M ROADS IN THE PRASTARA-CHESSBOARD PATTERN FURTHER DIVIDE SECTORS INTO MOHALLAS.
 AMMENITIES

AMENITIES ARE PROVIDED WITH RESPECT TO UPPER KING AND UPPERCLASS INSTEAD OF COMMON MAN
AMANITIES ARE PROVIDED ON MAIN ROAD, WITHIN 5 MINUTE WALKING DISTANCE.
PLACEMENT OF AMENETIES WAS DONE WITH RESPECT TO FUNCTION, USE AND TRAFFIC
FURTHER JUSTAPOSITION HAS CREATED DISTINCT NODES AND ACTIVITY LAND MARKS, WHICH ULTIMATELY HAS CREATED DEFINED PATH
THUS SOCIAL INTERACTIVE SPACES ARE CREATED BY DESIGN, BUILT FORM DEFINITION, OPEN SPACES PATTERN AND ROAD PATTERN.
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WHY PINK?
• JAIPUR IS KNOWN AS THE PINK CITY, A
RATHER IDEALIZED DESCRIPTION OF THE
TERRA-COTTA COLORED LIME PLASTER THAT
COATS THE OLD PART OF THE CITY'S WALLS,
BUILDINGS, AND TEMPLES.

THE REASONS FOR PAINTING THE TOWN PINK ARE UNKNOWN, BUT VARIOUS THEORIES HAVE BEEN TOSSED ABOUT:
•USING PINK TO CUT DOWN GLARE
• JAI SINGH II'S APPARENT DEVOTION TO LORD SHIVA (WHOSE FAVORITE COLOR IS REPUTEDLY TERRA COTTA).
• OTHERS BELIEVE SINGH WANTED TO IMITATE THE COLOR OF THE SANDSTONE USED IN THE FORTS AND PALACES OF HIS MUGHAL EMPEROR-
FRIENDS.
• THE MOST POPULAR REASON (SPREAD NO DOUBT BY "BRITISHERS" DURING THE RAJ ERA) IS THAT PINK IS THE TRADITIONAL COLOR OF
HOSPITALITY, AND THE CITY WAS FRESHLY PAINTED AND PAVED WITH PINK GRAVEL TO WARMLY WELCOME EDWARD VII FOR HIS VISIT HERE IN
1876.
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TYPOLOGY OF FACADES
• FACADES OF JAIPUR AND SURROUNDINGS
TYPICALLY HAVE GOKHDAS (SITTING SPACES)
ON EITHER SIDE OF THE ENTRANCES.
• THE OPENINGS ARE OFTEN CHARACTERIZEDD
BY THE USE OF CUSPED, TREFOIL R POINTED
ARCHES WITH RECTANGULAR OR CHHATRI
(VAULTED DOME) TYPE FRAMING, FLANKED
WITH LOTUS COLUMNS.
• STYLISTICALLY, THE
BANGALDAR(CURVILLINEAR) ROOF BECOME
PREVALENT IN STONE CHHATRIS AND
CHHAJJAS(SUNSHADES) AND WAS LATER
USED IN AREAS OF RAJASTHAN TOO

THE BANGALDAR CHHATRI WITH

SUNSHADE FOLLOWING THE
PUBLIC FORMS THE FOCUS OF
THE CHANDRA MAHAL FAÇADE
IN THE CITY COMPLEX

GOYAL BHAWAN