CLIMATE OF BHOPAL
LARGE TREES
• BHOPAL HAS COMPOSITE CLIMATE. IT
MEANS IT HAVE COOL , DRY WINTERS, A HOT
SUMMER AND A HUMID MONSOON SEASON.
• THE DRIEST MONTH IS APRIL, WITH 2 MM OF
RAIN. MOST OF THE PRECIPITATION HERE
FALLS IN AUGUST, AVERAGING 359 MM
• MAY IS THE WARMEST MONTH OF THE YEAR. THE
TEMPERATURE IN MAY AVERAGES 33.6 °C.
JANUARY IS THE COLDEST MONTH, WITH
TEMPERATURES AVERAGING 18.2 °C.
•  THE TEMPERATURE HERE AVERAGES 25.1 °C.
ABOUT 1132 MM OF PRECIPITATION FALLS
ANNUALLY.
BHOPAL DEVELOPMENT PLAN
GEOGRAPHY
• BERASIA FOREST RANGE
TOTAL GEOGRAPHICAL AREA OF BHOPAL
DISTRICT IS 2772 SQ. KM OF WHICH DENSE
FOREST IS 41SQ KM, OPEN FOREST 192 SQ. KM.
TOTAL FOREST AREA IS 233 SQ. KM EXTENDING
OVER 8.41% OF TOTAL GEOGRAPHICAL AREA.
• THE MAJOR HILLS IN BHOPAL COMPRISE OF
IDGAH HILLS AND SHYAMALA HILLS IN THE
NORTHERN REGION AND ARERA HILLS IN THE
CENTRAL REGION.
• BHOPAL IS LOCATED IN CENTRAL PART OF INDIA,  JUST
NORTH OF THE UPPER LIMIT OF
THE VINDHYA MOUNTAIN RANGES. LOCATED ON
THE MALWA PLATEAU.
• HAS AN AVERAGE ELEVATION OF 427M (1401FT).
• THE CITY HAS UNEVEN ELEVATION AND HAS SMALL
HILLS WITHIN ITS BOUNDARIES.
•  BHOPAL CITY IS DIVIDED INTO TWO PARTS WHERE
ONE PART WHICH IS NEAR THE VIP AND LAKE IS OLD
BHOPAL (NORTH) AND THE OTHER IS NEW BHOPAL
(SOUTH).
• CITY'S GEOGRAPHY HAS IN IT TWO LAKES NAMELY
UPPER LAKE AND LOWER LAKE.
• THE UPPER LAKE DRAINS INTO THE KOLAR RIVER.
THE VAN VIHAR NATIONAL PARK IS A NATIONAL PARK
SITUATED BESIDES THE UPPER LAKE.
VEGETATION ANALYSIS
1.BABUL TREE (ACACIA ARABICA) HEIGHT: 5-20M
• MADHYA PRADESH, THE STATE OCCUPYING
2.KHAIR (ACACIA CATECHU) HEIGHT: UPTO 15M
THE MAXIMUM LAND, HARBOURS A RICH
3.BAEL (AEGLE MARMELOS) HEIGHT: 12-15M
FLORA AND FAUNA. A LARGE NUMBER OF
4.KARDHAI (ANOGISSUS PENDULA) HEIGHT: 3-15M
PLANTS, WHICH ARE IMPORTANT
5.NEEM (AZADIRACHTA INDICA) HEIGHT: 15-20M
MEDICINALLY OR OTHERWISE, OCCUR IN
6.JAMUN (EUGENIA JAMBOLANA) HEIGHT: 12-15M
THIS STATE.
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• • ACCORDING TO THE REPORT OF FOREST
1.BER (ZIZYPHUS JUJUBA) HEIGHT: 10-12M
SURVEY OF INDIA THE TOTAL FOREST
2.DUDHI (WRIGHTIA TINCTORI) HEIGHT: 6-12M
COVER IS 12.01% , INCLUDING THE SHRUB
3.AAL (MORINDA TINCTORI) HEIGHT: 5-10M
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CLIMBERS
• THE FOREST DIVISION OF BHOPAL IS
1.KEOTI (VENTILAGO CALYCULATA) HEIGHT: 10M
DIVIDED INTO TWO FOREST RANGE :
2.MAHUL (BAUHINIA VAHLII) HEIGHT: 10-30
BERASIA FOREST RANGE AND SAMARDHA
FOREST RANGE.
SHRUBS
PROPOSED SITE
• SITE IS LOCATED IN HIGH DENSITY
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BERASIA , SITUATED 45 KM FROM BHOPAL.
SAMARDHA, MOSTLY COVERED AROUND
1.AKOL (ALANGIUN SLABIIFOLIUM) HEIGHT: 3-10M
2.ADUSA (ADHATODA BASICA) HEIGHT: UPTO 1.5M
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RESIDENTIAL AREA 1.KHUS (VETIVERIA ZIZANIODES) HEIGHT: ABOUT 1.5M
2.NAL (PHRAGMITES KARKA) HEIGHT: UPTO 10M
HYDROLOGY
TREES
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SAMARDHA FOREST RANGE
HISTORY OF BHOPAL
EARLY HISTORY
• THE CAPITAL OF MADHYA PRADESH, BHOPAL WAS BUILT ON THE SITE OF THE 11TH
CENTURY CITY OF BHOJPAL, FOUNDED BY THE PARMARA KING BHOJ (1000-1055).
THE CITY WAS ORIGINALLY KNOWN AS BHOJPAL, NAMED AFTER BHOJ AND THE
DAM (‘PAL’) THAT HE IS SAID TO HAVE CONSTRUCTED TO FORM THE LAKES
SURROUNDING BHOPAL.
• THE PRESENT CITY OF BHOPAL WAS FOUNDED BY ONE OF EMPEROR
AURANGZEB’S AFGHAN SOLDIERS DOST MOHAMMED KHAN. ALTHOUGH THE
KINGDOM WAS SMALL, IT SURVIVED SEVERAL WARS AND BECAME A PRINCELY
STATE IN BRITISH INDIA IN 1818.
• BHOPAL REACHED ITS HEIGHT OF CULTURE, ARTS AND PUBLIC WORKS UNDER
THE ENLIGHTENED RULE OF THE BEGUMS, A 19TH CENTURY DYNASTY OF
MUSLIM WOMEN. THE ACCEPTED RULE OF THE BEGUMS DATES FROM THE
ACCESSION OF THE 18-YEAR-OLD QUDSIA BEGUM (1819-37), WHO SEIZED CONTROL
AFTER THE ASSASSINATION OF HER HUSBAND.
• SITE SUITABLE FOR DUGWELLS AND SHALLOW TUBEWELLS.
• INVESTED IN PUBLIC WORKS, BUILDING THE JAMA MASJID OF BHOPAL AND A
• SITE LIES IN VINDHYAA SANDSTONE AREA. BEAUTIFUL PALACE, THE GOHAR MAHAL. SHAH JAHAN BEGUM (1868-1901)
PROVED A MARKED CONTRAST TO HER POWERFUL MOTHER BUT SHE STILL
• BHOPAL HAS 75% BLACK COTTON SOIL AND 25% YELLOW RED MIX LEFT A CONSIDERABLE MARK IN ARCHITECTURE, MUSIC, POETRY AND THE
SOIL. ARTS. IN FACT, LIKE HER MUGHAL NAMESAKE EMPEROR SHAH JAHAN, SHE BORE
A PARTICULAR PASSION FOR ARCHITECTURE, AND INVESTED HEAVILY IN A SERIES
OF ELABORATE PUBLIC WORKS THAT BEAUTIFIED THE CITY
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SINHGAD COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
SHANTANU KUMAR BAROLIYA
DESIGN R.N:-7 SEM:VI
THIRD YEAR . B.ARCH D.A
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POSTMODERNISM
• POSTMODERN ARCHITECTURE, IN DISTINCTION TO THE VIEW OF MODERNISM AS ORTHODOX,
AUSTERE AND FORMALLY ABSOLUTE, IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE INCORPORATION OF
HISTORICAL DETAILS IN A HYBRID RATHER THAN A PURE STYLE. AIRPORT
SITE

• SHOWN BY THE USE OF DECORATIVE ELEMENTS, BY A MORE PERSONAL AND EXAGGERATED BUS STAND RAILWAY STATION
STYLE, AND BY REFERENCES TO POPULAR MODES OF BUILDING.

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SITE
• PRACTITIONERS OF POSTMODERN ARCHITECTURE EMPHASIZES ELEMENTS OF METAPHOR,
SYMBOL, AND CONTENT IN THEIR THINKING AND THEIR WORK. THEY SHARE AN INTEREST IN
MASS, SURFACE COLORS, AND TEXTURES AND FREQUENTLY USE UNORTHODOX BUILDING
MATERIALS.

• THE ARCHITECT MIGHT OR MIGHT NOT BELONG TO THE CITY, BUT THE HIS DESIGNS SHOULD
BE AS SUITED TO THAT CITY AS IT WOULD RESPECTIVELY SUIT IF HE DESIGNS NOT JUST IN THE
CITY, WHERE HE BELONGS BUT AS IF HE HAS DESIGNED FOR HIMSELF, FOR EXAMPLE ,
LOCATION :-SHYAMLA HILLS, BHOPAL, MADHYA PRADESH
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JAWAHAR KALA KENDRA IS A 'JAIPUR' BUILDING, BRITISH COUNCIL LIBRARY A ‘DELHI’
BUILDING AND ALL THE OTHER PROJECTS DO BELONG IN PLACE AND TIME WHERE THEY HAVE UPPER LAKE -2.3 KM
BEEN BUILT. LOWER LAKE -2.3 KM
VAN VIHAR -5.7 KM
BHARAT BHAVAN -1.8 KM
BHOAPAL MAP
TRIBAL MUSEUM -3.4 KM
BIRLA MUSEUM -3.4 KM
• SITE LOCATION FROM PUBLIC TRANSPORT -2.5 KM
SHAUKAT MAHAL
RAILWAY STATION - 7.2 KM MOTI MASJID -2.4 KM

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BUS SATND - 4 KM TAJ-UL-MASJID -3.5 KM
AIRPORT - 11KM
TREES ON SITE

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PHOTOGRAGH FROM POINT D
JAWAHAR KALA KENDRA JAIPUR
ANALYSIS
• FOR EXAMPLE , JAWAHAR KALA KENDRA IS A 'JAIPUR' BUILDING, BRITISH COUNCIL LIBRARY
A ‘DELHI’ BUILDING AND ALL THE OTHER PROJECTS DO BELONG IN PLACE AND TIME WHERE
JAMUN TREE • HUMIDITY INCREASES DUE TO LAKE.
THEY HAVE BEEN BUILT.

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• SITE IS LOCATED IN HIGH DENSITY RESIDENTIAL AREA
PHOTOGRAGH FROM POINT C
GULMOHAR TREE
• SITE IS LOCATED NEAR RAILWAY STATION, BUS TAND

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• SITE HAS NEGLIGIBLE SLOPE

NEEM TREE
• SITE HAS ACCESSIBLE ROAD ENTRY FROM ALL SIDE

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HAPPY HOME BUILDING, MUMBAI CEAT ,MUMBAI
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I.M KADRI SHOW JALI WORK AND TRADITIONAL ELEMENT IN HIS BUILDING

IMPLEMENTATION IN DESIGN

PROPOSED SITE

• BY A FUSION OF MODERN TYPOLOGY AND REGIONAL ELEMENTS.

• DESIGNS SHOULD BE AS SUITED TO BHOPAL CITY .

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PHOTOGRAGH FROM POINT A

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• IDEOLOGY REGARDING THE SITE CONTEXT, ON THE ONE HAND, AND ON THE
OTHER, BY ACCOMMODATE FOR THE ORNAMENTATION WHICH WOULD
SUFFICE THE HUMAN ASPIRATION .

• BUILDING SHOULD BE A MARRIAGE OF ART AND ARCHITECTURE, ACHIEVING 96 M

AN ATTENUATED LEVEL OF RESOLUTION AND NOT JUST MERELY SLAP ON A
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MURAL ON THE FACADE OF A BUILDING. • SITE AREA – 12743 SQ.M.

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• NEIGHBOURING BUILDINGS – HOTEL LAKE VIEW , MINISTRY OF SOUL.

2.0 M
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• NOISY AREA – JEHANUMA PALACE RD

• GOOD CONNECTIVITY OF ROADS ON SITE.

JEHANUMA PALACE RD
• LAKE VIEW AND GREEN AREA ON LAKE SIDE WHICH AFFECTTHE
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MICRO CLIMATE OF THAT AREA.

• SITE LOCATED NEAR TO THE MOST OF THE TOURIST PLACES.

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• USING JAIL PATTERN FROM SINHGAD COLLEGE OF ARCHITECTURE
TRIBAL PAINTING ELEMENTS. • USING TRADITIONAL ELEMENTS FROM SHANTANU KUMAR BAROLIYA
TAJ-UL-MASJID, INDIA’S BIGGEST DESIGN R.N:-7 SEM:VI
MOSQUE IN BHOPAL. SITE PLAN PHOTOGRAGH FROM POINT B THIRD YEAR . B.ARCH D.A