CHANDIGARH

About
Chandigarh is one of the earliest planned cities in post-
independence India and is internationally known for its
architecture and urban design. The master plan of the
city was prepared by Swiss-French architect Le
Corbusier, which built upon earlier plans created by the
Polish architect Maciej Nowicki and the American
planner Albert Mayer.
Site Selection for Planning of Chandigarh

The present site was selected in 1948 taking under

consideration various attributes such as:

● central location within the state

● proximity to the capital
● availability of sufficient water supply
● fertile of soil
● the gradient of land for natural drainage
● beautiful site with the panorama of blue hills as a
backdrop
● moderate climate.
● The site was the sub mountainous space of the
Ambala district about one hundred fifty miles north
of New Delhi.
● The area was a flat, light-sloping plain of agricultural
land consisting of fifty-nine villages.
Basic Planning Concepts of Planning
of Chandigarh

● So the town arrange was

planning as a post-war
‘garden city’ whereby
vertical and high-rise
buildings were dominating
out, keeping seeable the
living habits of the folks.

● Le Corbusier concieved the

master plan of chandigarh
as analogous to the human
body
 Concept
HEAD capital complex (place of power)

HEART the city center

STOMACH the commercial area

ARMS university and industrial zone

LUNGS leisure valley, open spaces

ARTERIES A network of roads

 Le Corbusier Planning Strategies

divided the human planning was

preservation of the
natural environment,
conservation of buildings
and open spaces,
hierarchical road network
functions into circulation, against the
living, working, care traditional Indian
body and spirit with strict cities
zoning

Replaced the .
native Indian city Planned with the target Grid pattern for the fast
arrange into on urban design, traffic roads
superblocks architectural aesthetics,
THE V7 ROAD NETWORK
ROAD NETWORK MAP
BUS TERMINALS & RAILWAY STATION
 MAJOR POINTERS

Buses will ply only on V1, V2, V3, and V4 roads

● Pathways for cyclists ● Roads intersected at

right angles forming
a grid

● Residential areas
● Hierarchy of
segregated from the
movement
traffic
SECTORS
● So the primary module of the town‘s
style could be a sector, neighborhood
unit of size 800mtrs×1200mtrs
● every sector could be an autonomous
unit having retailers, school, health
centers, and places of recreations and
worship
● The population of a sector varies
between 3000and 2000 relying upon
the sizes of plots and therefore the
topography of the realm
● Convenient walking distance for social
services like colleges and looking
centers
SECTOR PLAN
HOUSING PLAN
 THEORY OF URBAN DESIGN

Paths:
Paths are the channels along which the observer customarily, occasionally, or
potentially moves. They may be streets, walkways, transit lines, canals, and
railroads. For many people, these are the predominant elements in their image.
People observe the city while moving through it, and along these paths the other
environmental elements are arranged and related.

In Chandigarh, the 7V Circulation System has served the city well for
decades. But the same is now under extreme pressure, both internal and
external, which has begun to affect its efficiency. Paths have been explained
under a title ‘streets’ in the report below.
Edges:
Edges are the linear elements not used or
considered as paths by the observer.
They are
the boundaries between two phases, linear
breaks in continuity: shores, railroad cuts,
and
edges of development walls. They are
lateral references rather than coordinate
axes. Such
edges may be barriers, more or less
penetrable, which close one region from
another; or they
may be seams, lines along which two
regions are related or joined together.
Nodes:
Nodes are points, the strategic spots in a
city into which an observer can enter, and
which are the intensive foci to and from
which he is traveling. They may be
primary junctions,
places of a break in transportation, a
crossing or convergence of paths,
moments of shift from
one structure to another. Or the nodes
may be simply concentrations, which gain
their
importance from being the condensation
of some use or physical character, as a
street corner
hangout or an enclosed square
Districts:
Districts are the medium-to-large
sections of the city conceived as having
two-dimensional extents, which the
observer mentally enters “inside of” and
which are recognizableas having some
common identifying character. Always
identifiable from the inside, they are also
used for exterior reference invisible from
the outside
In chandigarh every sector will act as
a district
Landmarks:
Landmarks are another type of point
reference, but in this case the observer
does
not enter within them, they are external.
They are usually a rather simple defined
physical
object: building, sign, store, or mountain.
Landmarks become more easily identifiable.
Chandigarh is planned to have various
land marks
Major landmarks in Chandigarh include the
matka chowk onthe Jan Marg, Karan cinemas
in sector 22 market area, etc. the matka chowk
has its ownidentity. It leads to the capitol
complex
LANDMARKS
Thank you
Submitted by
Nitish
Nikhil
Bhawan
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