Salt lake City centre - kolkata

Why kolkata ??
• mixed use
• essence of conventional indian shopping markets
• open, clustered planning
• commercial + cultural + social aura
• builtform
• public spaces and interrelationship of diverse activities.
Aim :
.To create a space which can form the node for holding and experiencing commercial, cultural and social activities.
. It is in a way a hybrid between a convention centre or a cultural hub and a commercial centres at a much reduced scale.
.As a city centre requires to incorporate the demands the present demography asks for commercial and cultural hub.

Bidhannagar as it is popularly called, is a planned satellite town in the indian state of west bengal. It was developed between 1958 and 1965 to accommodate the burgeoning population of kolkata, the state
capital.
Population :
.At the 2011 census, bidhannagar had a population of 218,323 (males 111,363 ; females 106,960).
.Bidhannagar has an average literacy rate of 90.44% (higher than the national average of 74%),[with male literacy of 93.08% and female literacy of 87.69%.
Project Work Status: Completed Projects
• This is a vibrant new city center - energized though the interaction of the many diverse activities it contains. There is a
wide spectrum of land-uses, ranging from apartment houses and office buildings, to restaurants and shops (some located
in a large air-conditioned shopping area, and others in the narrow bazaar-streets one finds throughout India).

• The elements that unify all these diverse uses are the pedestrian streets that traverse from one end of the site to the
other, climaxing in an open-air kind at the focal point at the center of the main plaza. From this plaza, steps connect down
to the pedestrian streets between the buildings at the Northern end of the site. Facing south, at the other end, are the
apartment houses. The non air-conditioned market is in the form of a series of stepped-back terraces, so as to increase
cross-ventilation. The air-conditioned shopping center is organized around a central atrium - and anchored by the
presence of two large Department Stores at either end.

• Combining shops, a wedding hall, a multiplex, offices and apartments, this City Centre in the heart of Salt Lake City in
Kolkata, provides community and public spaces, both covered and open-to-sky, that are at the scale of the city, and open
to all its citizens.
 Project components
• Retail(small store,
kiosk and anchor
shops)
• Foodcourt
• Specialty restuarants
• Banquets
• Residences
• cineplex

The spatial organization of simple forms create a

number of corridors which become ‘streets’ of
experience and give porosity to the entire complex.
Note that the complex has not boundaries, but it itself
draws the roads inside.
KEYOBSERVATIONS: •
Openings on Southwest and Southeast direction to facilitate tunnel effect
between blocks.
•Kund in southeast direction to have pleasing sun in daytime.
•The interlinking corridors facilitate constant air circulation and end at
the Kund space.
•The Kund space is provided on the longer axis of the site to have
maximum exposure to the roadside.
•Segregation of activities through levels ,define uninterrupted user
specific moment.

The kund (main entry)

section
Hang out spaces Aerial view of city centre compound
Circulation pattern
• Parametric vehicular movement for parking and movement through
• Parking is distributed throughout the site to enhance the all utility area of the site

• Circulation
• Commercial space
• Public plaza
• Services
• Vertical movement
• Roof pergola
Ground floor

First floor

Second floor
Nodal points
Street systems

City centre is widely regarded as hybrid mall.

this is largely owing to its unusual combination
of mall design mix with the convenience of
street system replication an Indian bazaar. It is
believed that as per the original design the
streets were not t be covered , allowing full
exposure to the outside climate. However the
streets now have been covered with
translucent fibre roofing system and punctures
area left at only few predefined spots for the
plantations in the street below.

Internal corridor
Area analysis
Site plan and its organization
• Clustered organisation relies on
physical proximity to relate its spaces
to one another
• Often consists of repetitive , cellular
spaces having similar functions and
share a common visual trait such as
shape or orientation
Clubbing of various activities
• The close proximity of forms
• Various activities are club by means
of corridors, plazas.
Spatial distribution of hierarchy
• Connection between courts to
side activities
• Informal nodes in between
corridors creating interest in
junction spaces
• Corridors are covered with
pergolas with polycarbonated
sheet to provide diffused light
inside
Study of open spaces
• Open spaces are merged with
whole composition
• Activities surrounding focused
with the open space in
between kund at entrance.
Linkage elements/ spaces/Breakout areas
• Connecting corridors specially hidden
line between outer streets towards
inside.
• Materials used for the pavement of
the mall resembles the street
• Its inclusive for one. With no
boundaries to separate its from the
street, it is open to everyone all
income and all age groups.
• Tree placement in pathways and light
arrangement
Study of shadow pattern
• The play with light and shadow is
entertained by people at different
times and different sense of spaces.
• As plaza is interconnecting element
the activity performed in this place
imparts much leisure
inferences

Some services like air conditioning, ows tanks are
provided at the terrace
POSITIVE . NEGATIVE .
• The activities linked together by means of • Obstructed servicing in
linking elements, which not only satisfies staggered blocking
the function of activity ,but also provides planning.
visual connectivity creates harmony. • Not much scope for
• Concept of conventional Indian informal activities.
marketplace in replicated.
• The space, volume and form should be
designed considering the types of
enclosures and the circulation pattern.
• Nature of integration between built and
open spaces , with the surrounding
environment .
• Consideration of Orientation of the
building, as it creates shades and shadows
on the external surfaces.