INFORMAL ACTIVITIES

NEHRU PLACE, AREA DISTRIBUTION

• Nehru place is a large commercial, financial, and business centre in

DELHI
Delhi.
• It was the biggest of all the 15 district centres proposed in the 1962
18%
6%

master3.23 of Delhi.
planLAKH Sq. Mt
76%

AREA OFFICES
: PARKING
RETAIL
LOCATION ELECTRONICS
IT
HARDWARE/DOCUMENTATION

FOOD FABRIC
JOINTS S

INDIA NEW DELHI SOUTH DELHI NEHRU PLACE

ACCESSIBILITY MOVEMENT VEHICULAR

FORMAL ACTIVITIES
 Nehru place lies next to the outer ring road, an arc that encompasses
major parts of south Delhi, it can be easily accessed by all forms of
public transport.
 It has its own delhi-metro station on violet line.
PLAN SHOWING AREAS OF FORMAL
 It has its own bus terminal, popularly known as nehru place bus ACTIVITIES
terminal. 30 minutes from nizamuddin railway station and 1 hour from TOTAL FORMAL RETAIL AREA : 12877.81
new delhi railway station. SQM
The main plaza is a 4-storey complex, home to around 1500
offices,400 registered IT dealers, computer retailers, textile and SURFACE PARKING BASEMENT PARKING MULTILEVEL PARING
digital printing shops and eateries. PLAN PLAN PLAN
The common areas of plaza are dotted with 600 hawkers. 1. Parking area near devika towers
Between the textile, digital printing and IT industries and hundreds of • Capacty- 50 cars  Surface parking
50 two-wheelers
hawkers selling items from spare electronics parts and pirated 2. Parking area near modi towers four –wheeler) total surface parking = 48,000 sq.m
software to clothes and shoes, • Capacity-90 cars  Basement parking
• Due to informal manner of parking 115 cars can be
parked at a time. total basement parking=26,000 sq.m
INFORMAL ACTIVITIES CORE OFFICE COMPLEX 3.Parking area near vishal bhawan(four –wheeler) 
PEDESTRIAN ENTRIES TO MAIN MARKET Multi-level parking
• Capacity -120 cars at a time
• Informal parking total multi-level parking=24,000 sq.m
4. Parking near modi towers(tow wheelers)
• Capacity-115 bikes at a time  Total parking area= 74,600 sq.m approx.
• Fare- rs 10/- per hour
5. Parking near vishal bhawan (two-wheelers)
• Capacity -250 at a time no. of cars possible to park= total area/area per
•Informal manner of parking one car
6.Basemnet parking Total parking plan = 74,600/12.5
• Capacity-100 two wheeler and = 5,968 cars approx.
four wheeler
7. Informal parking
Shop owners car was parked infront of there
shops.
Hawkers zone(7) was also used as car parking
and also three wheelers were parked.
PLAN SHOWING AREAS PLAN SHOWING AREAS OF CORE
OF INFORMAL OFFICE COMPLEX
ACTIVITIES MAXIMUM HEIGHT
TOTAL PAVED AREA : 16501.70 SQM G+8 AREA : 1,40,000
APPROX TOTAL INFORMAL RETAIL AREA : SQM RICKSHAWS AND
9900.9SQM CYCLES ARE PARKED
INSIDE THE
COURTYARD.
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FIGURE GROUND SHOWING NEHRU PLACE AND ITS NEIGHBOURHOOD
NEHRU PLACE DISTRICT: PLAN
PUBLIC TRANSPORT

DELHI
ACCESS ENTRY/EXIT POINTS
• Nehru Place District Area has
• Nehru Place District
Centre was developed
PEDESTRIAN several Entry/Exit points, as shown in early 60s by Delhi
in the adjacent image. Development Authority
• However, most of these are almost to serve the people in
PARKIN
G
inconspicuous and do not have and around the district
any clear signage.
centre.
PARKIN
G
• These entry points are narrow
FROM METRO and unwelcoming. • But over the years with
STATION
PARKIN

rapid growth and

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changing functions, the

District Centre has
now started
functioning as a city
PARKING
centre with footfalls
FROM BUS STOPS AND
AUTOS
from other parts of
Delhi and beyond.

• The famous Bahai

faith Lotus temple is
Commercial Bus stop Residential Metro line ( Violet)
also located close by.
Integration of Public Transport
• Nehru Place is
• Public transportation drop off and pick up points are separated from
CIRCULATION accessible by all forms
Nehru Place by a circumference of parking.
PLAN of public transport, as it
• To go to Nehru Place from the metro station, people have to cross a busy road
• There are 5 major lies next to the Outer
with no red lights or zebra crossings. There is no pedestrian access from
these public transport.
parking lots Ring Road.
located on the
• There is no designation for taxis/cars or official autos ground.
• This unplanned and
• Lack of integration and chaos discourage people from using public
transport
• Pedestrian entries unmanaged growth has
are through the
and increase in private cars leads to parking issues. parking or directly led to issues like
• 93% of people who come to Nehru Place do not live in a 2km. The off a main road. dilapidated infrastructure,
infrastructure of Nehru Place was not designed to cater to this and leads to
chaos. increased use of private
vehicles despite being
well connected by public
transport systems and
increased
marginalisation of non-
motorised transport
users.

Vehicular Metro line

Section 1 Movement ( Violet)

LANDSCAPING
• Parks lack defined sitting spaces.
The very few that exist are
broken.

• Seats lack shading.

Section 2
• A singular walkway has trees in the
centre that provides some amount
of shading.

• The trees are mostly located at

periphery and do not create any
buffers.

1 2 • Overall, the district is not visually

SITE SECTION appealing and lacks well shaded
areas,
• Built to open Area varies from 1:1 to 1:3 throughout the
complex.

• The public area is well lit with good ventilation.

LANDSCAPE
PLAN