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Arch Thesis – Transit Hub at Sector 21, Dwarka, New Delhi – Ashwjit Singh

Ashwjit Singh is student of Gateway College of Architecture and Design, Sonepat

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Abstract / Summary

A transit hub is the spine of any city. It serves the most basic necessity for the city that is
transportation. But when we hear about ‘Transit Hub’, the first thing that comes to our mind is
either train or bus or metro or all combined. The fashion of creating huge transit hubs without
any concern for the immediate society around it has a deteriorating effect on itself. Because of
this, people have to adjust to the design rather than creating an adaptive design.

A transit hub does not necessarily needs to be just a starting or ending point of a journey. It can
also serve as a node for the community that surrounds or resides around the hub. But how does
this happen? How to get the community involved in the process? The answers lies in the needs
and aspirations of the society. If their wants and demands can be met on an optimum level at a
place which provides them an escape from their daily schedule & also gives them a new set of
viewpoint for the environment surrounding them, then the space will act as a node for the
society & passengers. This is what has been tried to achieve.

Aim

To create a nodal integration between the transit hub and public space serving as a free space
for the people residing around the transit hub.

Scope

The bus terminal proposed is in sector 21 Dwarka, Delhi and is supposed to be an international
bus terminal. The project focuses on improving the current scenario of transit hubs by
implementation of controls through design.
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the society surrounding it. Through research and case studies several issues were realized in the
existing typology of terminals. Hence by trying to resolve them, what has been achieved is:

Pedestrian friendly environment

Socially active complex

Crime preventive environmental design for better of women

Security from man-made life threatening situations

Controls for restricting unnecessary public intake to reduce chaos

Objectives

Exploring, understanding and further applying the thinking of society/community/people

towards an urban space through architecture.

Achieving a design of efficient transit hub.

Secondary nature of being a node for not just the surrounding community but also for the
passengers.

Being situated in a metropolitan city and more importantly in the country’s capital, an image for
international standards needed to be created.

Socially and environmentally active complex.

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Faded have those days, when children use to get scolded for playing cricket in the streets.
Breaking windows, hitting cars and then running away to save themselves from scolding. Today’s
youth does not need to be in juveniles or any other form of restricted or confined boundaries to
feel that way. The technological pests such as mobiles, gaming consoles and internet sources
have already made their way into their daily lives in order to keep them glued to it.
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But is it only the youth to blame? Have the adults not lost their way? 9 to 9 office hours. Office
and household duties have chained them to reclining plastic seats. Whether it is the middle aged
ones or the old age. The social connection has almost smoked into thin air. How to revive that
connection again? Earlier their use to be a house for every family. Now it is a society of
numerous houses for numerous families within confined limits. This itself has limited us in
engaging with different people at the same time. What can be done? To give back what has been
taken from the society, a space is needed, which provides them with the most basic activities
and needs. This will help in fulfilling the purpose of going to that place and hence, the place will
not be defunct.

After research and study of the context it was concluded that a gathering and common playing
and engagement point was needed.

On the other hand, the city is suffering from ever increasing demand of public transport. And the
current bus terminals that run in the city are not functioning properly and to their full potential.
One of the main reasons for this is poor infrastructure.

This terminal is part of a ‘Multi Modal Transit Hub’ and hence will face high amount of traffic
both in terms of vehicles and passengers. So how can a transit hub be the face of the city? How
can architecture be the catalyst of change for future?

This terminal becomes the interconnection of change and progress. This is how terminals should
grow. This is how it will begin. This is why it not just a terminal but a ‘Nodal Integration of Urban
Transit Hub & Community Spaces’.

Approach

Even though the intention of the design was to be community oriented but the primary motive
was to create a highly efficient bus terminal of international standards. Hence the design is not
overpowered by the community space and is yet its integral part.

The site is approachable for the passengers from multiples entries but for vehicles and buses
from singular entries. This makes it easy to maintain the traffic and also increases the legibility
and viable.

Public Piazza

The building have been oriented in the direction of the major axis of the site to ease the
movement of buses.

Movement of buses have been distributed on different levels for the ease of passengers.

Totally different and detached pedestrian block has been created for ticketing and information
and tourist information area so that only the people with tickets could go into the terminal
building. This creates a less chaotic environment.

The community space has been placed in front of the site because that is the only area from
where the site is totally visible and also it is near to the residential area around the site.
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The office building is totally alienated from the terminal side to create a disturbance free and
easily approachable space.

The three buildings have their own characters yet are in right harmony with each other.

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Kempegowda Bus Station, more commonly known as Majestic Bus Station, is a large bus station
in central Bangalore, India. It is located opposite the Bangalore City Railway Station. It is
bordered by Seshadri Road to the north, Danavanthri Road to the east, Tank Bund Road to the
south and Gubbi Thotadappa Road to the west.

This bus station provides connectivity to almost all the areas of Bangalore. One side of the bus
station is used for intra-city buses by the Bangalore Metropolitan Transport Corporation (BMTC)
while the other side is used by out-station buses operated by various state road transport
corporations. The KSRTC side of the bus station also houses the Nadaprabhu Kempegowda
(Majestic) metro station on the Namma Metro.

Former chief minister of Karnataka R. Gundu Rao is credited with building the station. The bus
station not only eased congestion with buses and helped streamline the transport system but
also helped the local area grow economically and was a major landmark of the city for many
years.

name

The station acquired the name Majestic Bus Station or "Majestic" from a popular cinema theatre
of the same name located nearby. It was later named as Kempegowda Bus Station in honour of
Kempe Gowda I, the founder of Bangalore. However, Majestic continues to be the most
commonly used name for the station.[1] Buses terminating at the station usually display signs
that show "Kempegowda Bus Station" or "KBS".