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NAMESHRUTI
WAGHMARE
CLASS- T.Y.
B.ARCH
GUIDED BYAR.KULDEEP
BHATIYA
CHANDIGHAR BEFORE
ITS PLANING
Historical
Background
Vision
Selection of Site
The present site was selected in 1948 taking into
account various attributes such as its
PLANERS
Le Corbusier
Pierre
Jeanneret
Maxwell Fry
Jane B. Drew
PLANERS
An American Firm of Albert Mayer and Mathew
Novicki were commissioned in 1950 to prepare
the Master Plan.
Albert Mayer and Mathew Novicki evolved a
fan shaped Master Plan
The concept of super block was developed by
them
The super block was designed as a self
sufficient neighborhood units
Novicki was tragically killed in an air accident and
Mayer decided to discontinue.
Thereafter, the work was assigned to Le
GRID-IRON
PATTERN
SHOPING
AREA
AND
RECREACTI
ONAL AREA
SCHOOLS
CIRCULATION
Le Corbusier's traffic system followed Mayer's lines but was
more elaborate; he called it Les Sept Voies de Circulation,
or Seven Vs.
'The 7 Vsact in the town plan as the bloodstream, the lymph
system and the respiratory system act in biology.
These systems are quite rational, they are different from
each other, there is no confusion between them, yet they
are in harmony.
CIRCULATION
The 7Vs establishes a
hierarchy of traffic
circulation ranging from :
V-1
Arterial road
V-2 roads
Major boulevards
V-2
roads
(Along
with
service
lanes)
V-4
roads
(Shoppi
ng
lanes at
center of
every
block)
V-5 roads
(Neighborh
ood streets
)
V-6
roads
CIRCULATION
The entrance of cars into the sectors, which are
exclusively reserved to family life, can take place on four
points only; in the middle of the 1,200 meters; in
the middle of the 800 meters.
FOUR
All stoppage of circulation shall be prohibited at the four
POINT
circuses, at the angles of the sectors.
ENTRANCE
The bus stops are
provided each time at 200 meters
from the circus so as to served the four pedestrian
entrances into a sector. TO A
Buses can ply on the V4s, the horizontal connection
BLOCK
between contiguous sectors,
but not within the sector
interiors.
LIVING
LIVING
Government Housing
The Govt. housing in the city was divided into 13 categories, ranging
from the house for the Chief Minister to the two-room house completer
with sanitary facilities, a kitchen, a verandah and a courtyard for the
lowest paid employee.
The socio economic conditions of the city restricted the height of most
of the residential buildings to two to three storeyed structures.
LIVING
Private House-Controlled
Various economic
classesDevelopment
LIVING
Private House-Controlled
Development
These courts provided
light and ventilation to
houses besides serving as private open-to-sky
spaces. A series of such OPEN
houses were planned
COURTS
around community level
open space which served
SURROUNDI
the purpose of holding
social and religious functions
and outdoor activities
and
games by children.
NG
HOUSES
LIVING
Citys Green
The hierarchy of open space is prominently visible in
the city.
At the City level, the open space consist of the
Leisure Valley and special gardens.
At Sector level, the open space constitute the
central green in each sector whereas open space
at community level consist of parks around which
clusters of houses re arranged.
The smallest category of open space is the
WORKING
he industrial area
The Educational institute
WORKING
The Capitol Complex in the north-east
The Capitol
Complex is the
focal point if the
city, both
visually and
symbolically
whose
architectural is
considering to be
the most
WORKING
THE ASSEMBLY
THE ASSEMBLY
In front of the Secretariat is located the
most sculptural and eye-catching of all
the geometrical forms of the Capitol
-The Assembly.
Characterizing the roofline of the
Assembly is a great hyperbolic drum
connected to a pyramidal by a small
bridge.
Inside, the legislative chambers are
dramatically illumined with shafts of
light.
The building has two entrances: one at
the basement level for everyday use an
the other from the piazza level for
ceremonial occasions.
The entrance is 7.60 m high and 7.60
m broad, whose enameled door.
The external faade of the cuboid base
has a rhythmic pattern of the brisesoleil.
THE SECRETARIAT
THE SECRETARIAT
HIGH COURT
HIGH COURT
Built in the Capitol Complex
during 1951-57.
Has a double roof, projecting over
the office block like an inverted
umbrella.
The outward sweep of the upper
roof is symbolic of protection and
justice to the people.
The three vertical piers, rising 60
feet from the floor and painted in
bright colours form the grand
entrance to the building.
The entrance symbolizes pylon.
A giant egg-crate screen covers
the building faade.
On the rear walls of the court
rooms,are the giant woolen
tapestries designed by Le
WORKING
The Educational institutes in the
north-west
The Master Plan was later
reorganized by Pierre Jeanneret
alongwith designing of all major buildings including Gandhi
Bhawan and the Administrative Block, Arts and science teaching
blocks.
GHANDI BHAWAN
WORKING
The City Centre in the heart
The City Centre representing the
heart of the city lies at the
intersection of two main axial Roads,
Madhya Marg and Jan Marg.
Designed on a monumental scale of
uniform four-storied concrete
buildings, it is laid out along four
pedestrian promenades intersecting
a nodal
where
all civicthe most important civic and
at
Around
thispoint,
chowk
are created
buildings
arebuildings,
located. the town hall, the central library and the
commercial
General Post and Telegraph office, large cinemas, commercial
houses and banks.
Besides the monuments that mark the large piazza, there are a
number of attractive structures in the piazza.
The City Centre contains large shopping stores, office buildings,
banks and cinemas and other public buildings.
WORKING
The industrial area in the southLocated in, the south-east
side of the city close to
east
HOCKEY STADIUM
ROSE GARDEN
ROCK GARDEN
PINJORE
GARDEN