Bus Q Shelter Design Competition by NDMC Delhi in 2001
Line Of Sight. Ad panels should be placed correctly. Architect's Contention: If you are on the shelter and looking towards the road or facing the road, then the right side panel is towards the rear of that side, and the left panel is towards the front of the side. ..(Find link below or click anywhere on this line.)
.. In India vehicles move towards the left. Ad panels should be placed such that vision of the bus from the passenger on the bus stand is not obstructed. How can NDMC and MCD and DTC be such dunderheads? Architect was cautioned btw that there is an ad panel area to be achieved and the right ad panel cannot be done away because that was just not in the culture at that time. So the Sterling Architect shifted the ad panel towards the rear of the side, the right side. Also it is rectangular vertically so that line of vision is obstructed least. Refer the Side Elevations, pictures are provided in Post. Left ad panel is differently then towards the front of the side for creativity and interest. Bus is not coming from there. These side panels (each) are hung on a frame atop two 25MM Square MS Pipes that then go further up into the Roof Structure. So Sandeep Vij Architect - B. Arch. GCA Lucknow - was the first one to propose that the ad panels should not be towards the right. He had provided a railing also on both the side peripheries for the reason that he wanted this Shelter to be protected, sacrosanct. This railing was in the form of a chain that was the same as the chain that you see along Rajpath and India Gate. His contention was that with the help of this Chain the entire New Delhi area or Lutyen's Delhi can be "bound", it can have an identity distinct of its own and a character distinctly its own. It would be an 'immediate connect'. All think it is a fabulous idea. And then it looks good from the sides too and provides the Bus Q shelter with a sort of 'completion'. There should be no grudges on the Jury's objection or apprehension on the implementation of this one though. The total height of the Bus Stand from the finished surface is 3657 MM , or a little above 3.6 Metres. Any History about this Chain?, anyone?.., any clues? :-) Find links to immediately next connected posts. Some more words or tags: transportation, romanticism, urbanism, Delhi Architect, India Architect, Style, In Transit, urbanscape, public areas, British Era, The Raj, urban symbol, public abuse.
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