GANDHINAGAR

INFOCITY
CASE STUDY
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About Gandhinagar
Location:23 km North of Gujarat

Designed for:
Total : 206,167 People (2011)
Density : 1,200/KM2

Planning Based on:

Chandigarh and Bhubaneswar

AreaTotal: 177KM2

Elevation: 81M(266FT)

Languages: Gujarati,Hindi,andEnglish Akshardham Temple Ahmedabad

About Gandhinagar
•Situated in the north of Gujarat, Gandhinagar serves as

the state capital and is better known as GreenCity.

•The city was planned by architect H.K. Mewada

•The city lives up to its name of being called a green City’

as it is covered by an extensive green belt. One can find

trees and plants along both sides of the roads.

•The city does not face traffic congestion and like

Chandigarh,it also has wide roads with service lanes along

most of them.

•Besides, separate are as havebeen designated for

residential, commercial and educational purposes and for

the IT industry.

•Unlike Ahmedabad, the city is not densely populated and

most of the area is not commercialized yet, which leaves

ample of scope for civic authorities for further planning

and development.
Map of gujrat indicating location of gandhinagar
CLIMATE CHART:
HISTORY

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•IN 1960, THE INDIAN STATE OF BOMBAY WAS SPLIT INTO TWOSTATES, MAHARASHTRA

AND GUJARAT LEAVING GUJARAT WITHOUT A CAPITAL CITY. AT THE TIME, AHMEDABAD

WAS SELECTED TO BE THE FIRST CAPITAL OF THE NEWLY CREATED STATE.

•IT WAS LATER PROPOSED THAT A NEW CAPITAL CITY BE CONSTRUCTED FOR THE

STATE.

•GANDHINAGAR GOT AN IDENTITY OF ITS OWN WHEN THE STATE OF MUMBAI WAS

DIVIDED INTO TWO SEPARATE STATES OF GUJARAT AND MAHARASHTRA.

•IN THE BEGINNING, AHMEDABAD-A COMMERCIAL HUB OF GUJARAT WAS CHOSEN AS

THE STATE CAPITA LAND IT WAS PROPOSED THAT A NEW CAPITAL SHOULD BE

CONSTRUCTED ALONG THE LINE OF OTHER NEW STATE CAPITALS, PARTICULARLY

CHANDIGARH.

•THEREFORE TWO WELL-KNOWN INDIAN ARCHITECTS, H.K. MEWADA AND PRAKASH M.

APTE (WHO WORKED AS BEGINNER FOR THE CHANDIGARH CITY) DESIGNED THE NEW

STATE CAPITAL.

•NAMED AFTER MAHATMA GANDHI THE FOUNDATION STONE OF THIS CITY WAS LAID ON
1965 AND IN 1971 THE CAPITAL WAS SHIFTED TO FROM AHMEDABAD TO GANDHINAGAR.

India (journeymart.com)
 LAND MARKS

•ResidentialUnits: with all facilities of water supply, electricity, drainage, shopping centers

•ZonalCentres: 4 to 5 sectors which include cinemas,dispensaries,bank,post office,police station,etc.

•Town: Centre of about 75 hectares has been allotted to accommodate civic, commercial, and cultural facilities.

•PublicBuildings: These include schools, colleges, town halls, hospitals to satisfy social, cultural, and medical needs.

•Communication/Roads for various traffic are provided separately. The roads leading to Govt. offices and approach roads are

100mwide.

•Openspaces: The open space is about1.5 to2 hectares per1000 population excluding playgrounds and parks.

•Industries: Light industries are provided in an area of 120 hectares. About ten thousand workers are engaged in these industries.

•The Capital Complex. It includes buildings like high court, secretariat, assembly hall, legislative and heads of different offices.

•Sector: Total size of the city is 177sq.km. having 30 sectors in total area.
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PLANNING:
Planned as the administrative capital of the
state, the current and future population

employed in state government offices was

distributed in 30 residential sectors around the

State Assembly-Secretariat complex.

Each residential sector could accommodate
about 50% of population, and was intended to

house the half of the population employed by

the government.

The city was planned for a population of

150,000 but can accommodate double that

population with increase in the floor space

ratio from 1 to 2 in the areas reserved for

private development.

The river being the border on the east, and the

industrial area to the North, the most logical

future physical expansion of the city was

envisaged towards the north-west

SECTOR 7 SUB-

DIVISION PLAN

Every sector is further

subdivided into areas that can

fulfill the basic need of the

inhabitants.

Ineachsectoryoucanfind
-Postoffice
-Temple, Church, Masjid
-Primary school
-Secondary school,
-Dispensary
-Recreational zones
-Gas station
-Playgrounds
-Markets
-Commercial areas
SECTOR 7 AREA-DIVISION PLAN

The Area divisionin the Sectors is

shown in the figure above:

-Area for the Private Sector

-Area for the Public Sector
-Area for the Commercial

SECTOR 7 ROAD NETWORK

PLAN

The Sector showing the Existing

circulation of the zone covering 3:

-Major Roads
-Secondary Roads
-Cycle tracks

SECTOR 7 PROPOSED GRID

SYSTEM - PRESENT

LINKAGES AND CONNECTIVITY CHARACTER OF THE CITY:

INFOCITY
Gandhinagar has many educational institutes like ICT,

EDI, Indian plasma research institute, and gujrat law

institute.
NODAL MAP ROAD NETWORK Gandhinagar education level is highest in gujrat

87.11%.

SECTORS:
Gandhinagar has 30 sectors which are 1x .75 kmeach

in length and width.

Each sector has primary school, secondary and

higher secondary school, medical dispensary, and

maintenance office.
Gandhinagar is developed on neighbourhood

concept.

STREETS
• Gandhinagar's streets are numbered (eg. road no. 1,

road no. 2 up to road no. 7)

• Cross streets named for letters of the Gujarati alphabet

(e.g., "k", "kh", "g", "gh", "ch", "chh", "j")

• All streets are aligned at 30 deg. n-w and 60 deg. n-e, to

avoid direct glare of morning and evening sun while

driving

• The Gujarat assembly building is in the centre of the

city to make it close to all the residents

ROAD PATTERNS
National highway (NH) 8 and 8c runs through the
district connecting it with major cities (20 km

from the city)

•connected with Ahmedabad by the sarkhej

Gandhinagar highway(28 km) and with Vadodara

by the Ahmedabad Vadodara

expressway(139km)

•distance from major industrial centers in the

state:
•Rajkot(249 km)
•Jamnagar(337km)
•Valsad (373 km)
•Ankleshwar(223km)
•Bhavnagar(228km)
•Mehsana(68km)
•Surat(306km)

Distancefrommajorcitiesin India:
•Mumbai(573 km)
•Delhi(943km)
•Kolkata(1952km)
•Chennai (1854km)
 PATHS
•Paths are the Guides into the community or
the districts.
•Planning the paths such a way that the
people wont be confused will traveling onit.
•Paths are designed in such a way that they
aligned at 30deg. NW and 60deg. NE to
avoid direct glare of the morning and evening
sun while driving

EDGES
•Edges plays the crucial role in terms of impression along

the pathway which give apleasant feeling while traveling

•Green area was provided withtrees to create a beautiful

NODES: environment along thepathway.

Nodes play the crucial role in
urban design as it acts as the DISTRICT&LANDMARK
intersection point off three •Districts are named as sectors and have their own identity

and more districts. with unique name.

Management of traffic is •Landmarks are further connected by the internal paths

challengingthese places. which further be part of the sector road formations.

INFORMAL SPACES
INFERENCES:

Top 14 must-see Best places to visit in Gandhinagar - WhatBestInIndia.com

Gandhinagar GIS Map (gandhinagarsmartcity.in)

Gandhinagar,Gujarat,India- Urban Design for Student Architects.

Gandhinagar - New World Encyclopedia

Gandhinagar Endangered: A Capital's Plan Dismantled | Planetizen Features