ANALYSIS CHART

BRIEF HISTORY OF LE CORBUSIER

Charles-Edouard Jeanneret was born in La Chaux-de-Fonds, The Esprit Nouveau pavilion – Particulars Le Corbusier’s Chandigarh Noida
Switzerland, 1887. Trained as an artisan, he traveled functioned as a manifesto of PLANNING The design of the city is based Noida has been planned on the grid
extensively through Germany and the East. At 13 years of age, Le Corbusier's ideas on modern PATTERN on a grid-iron plan based on iron concept and employs state-of-
Le Corbusier left primary school to learn the enameling and architecture It illustrated his the hierarchy of movement the-art technology in Engineering,
engraving of watch faces, his father's trade, at the École des belief that industry, through from highways to pedestrian Urban Planning and Architecture.
Arts Décoratifs at La Chaux-de-Fonds. the standardization required walkways.
for mass-production, could
There, Charles L'Eplattenier, whom Le Corbusier later called create the buildings necessary
his only teacher, taught him art history, drawing. and the for modern living. Chandigarh was planned
naturalist aesthetics of Art Nouveau. It was L'Eplattenier who to house 300,000
decided that Le Corbusier, having completed three yean of FAMOUS WORKS OF LE CORBUSIER inhabitants, spread over
studies, should become an architect. 47 numbered sectors
Nature morte à la pile d'assiettes – Unité d'Habitation organized on a grid.
One of the best examples of Purism, this (1945-52) – Each sector, measuring SECTOR SIZE 1.2km X 0.8km 0.7km X 0.4km
painting, encapsulates more succinctly by The 337 800 x 1200 meters,
showing an ideological celebration of apartment units in consists of a self-
industrial civilization and exhibiting the the building are sufficient unit with basic
"ready-made" lexicon of everyday life as divided into 23 services such as shops,
an aesthetic discourse. types in order to school, health center,
accommodate and areas for
different family recreation and worship.

URBAN PLANNING PRINCIPLES BY LE CORBUSIER NUMBER OF Chandigarh was initially There are a total of 163 sectors in
SECTORS designed with 30 sectors. It Noida. The numbering of sector in
1) The contemporary city 2) The RADIANT city
was later expanded upto Noida starts from Sector 1 to
sector 57 in its second phase Sector 168. However, Sector 13,
The City, as a business and of development due to Sector 103, Sector 109, Sector
residential center. first Designed in the increasing population. 114, and Sector 111 do not exist.
requirement will be an organ 1920’s. The “Radiant
that is compact, rapid, lively and City” was to be a
concentrated linear and ordered HIERARCHY OF Arterial roads (V1), major Arterial Roads: These are the
metropolis of the ROADS boulevards (V2) sector external roads providing regional
The Garden Cities and the daily future. definers (V3), shopping streets linkages to Noida with Delhi and
transport of the workers. It (V4), neighborhood streets towns of Uttar Pradesh.
should be supple, extensive and The basic strategy (V5), access lanes (V6) and Sub Arterial Roads: These are the
elastic. behind these various pedestrian paths and cycle major internal roads of the
schemes was to create tracks (V7s and V8s) township, which are planned to
The Industrial area is in the vertical architecture cater to the bulk of the intra-city
periphery of the city. and leave plenty of movement.
shared open space in Main Collector Road: These roads
between for people to are generally of 45.0 metres wide
use and enjoy. right of way.
Secondary Collector Roads: These
roads are generally of 24 to 30
The more dense the population meters wide right of way.
of a city is the less are the
distances that have to be
covered.

The moral, therefore, is that we

must increase the density of
the centres of our cities, where
business affairs are carried on.
NUMBER OF Total area of Chandigarh is Noida’s 82 urban villages are
URBAN 114 km² including 4.47 km² mostly home to migrant workers and
It combined large and VILLAGES IN rural area and 109.53 km² daily wagers such as factory
opened surfaces with THE CITY urban area. Chandigarh has a workers. Planners said that issues
smaller, more concentrated population of 10,55,450 in these thickly populated villages
The street of today is still the old bare peoples. There are 2,41,173 must be addressed soon.
A level site is the ideal site for the ground which has been paved over The modern space concepts.
houses in the sub-district.
contemporary city. A river flows street in the true sense of the word is a new
It altered the idea of city as There are about 12 villages in
nearby the city which acts like a liquid type of organism, a sort of stretched-out
a body with the head as the Chandigarh block
railways for transportation of goods. workshop, a home for many complicated and
A sorting house is present on the delicate organs, such as gas, water, and business center and the WATER The water supply of the city of Apart from rivers Hindon and
river banks electric mains heart as the cultural center SOURCE Chandigarh is based on two Yamuna, the planning area
sources i.e. Surface Water possesses several drains and
from Bhakra Main Canal which ponds. The ground water in NOIDA
is tapped at Kajauli located at is generally hard in nature due to
27 km. The second source of presence of calcium and magnesium
CHANDIGARH NOIDA water supply is under ground in excess amount.
water being pumped through
Particulars Area (in Acres) Percentage
deep bore tubewells. At
Residential 5335 35.65 present there are about 160
tubewells

CHANDIGARH
Commercial 564 3.77
Public and Semi 1219 8.15
Public
Industrial 3001 20.05
Recreational 1513 10.11
Agriculture 1001 6.69
NATURE OF The total area of land under Green spaces have been continually
Transportation 2211 14.77 GREEN recreation, parks and open declining from 951.89 hectare in
SPACES spaces is about 900 ha, with 2006 to 536 hectare in 2011. It is
about 250 ha additional area further expected to decline by
Particulars Area (in Acres) Percentage allocated for recreation and 10.14% in 2021
tourism. Green spaces make up
Residential 10866.85 38.64
33% of the total area of
PLANNING CONCEPT OF CHANDIGARH PLANNING CONCEPT OF NOIDA Commercial 1481.19 5.07 chandigarh
The design of the city is based on a grid-iron plan based Noida has got roads laid in a grid pattern and due to Public and Semi 3423.77 13.82 POPULATION Chandigarh has a population Noida has a density of 500 people
NOIDA

on the hierarchy of movement from highways to pedestrian proper planning, all main roads are 6 lanes wide, arrow Public DENSITY density of 90 people per per hectare. The overall population
walkways. The metaphor of a human being was being straight and are well finished. Noida features three main hectare density of the urban area is
Industrial 1610.06 5.72
employed in the plan – the ‘head’ contained the capital expressways. One is the DND Flyway, which connects proposed to be 164 persons per
complex, the ‘heart’ the commercial centre, and the Noida The second is the Noida-Greater Noida Expressway Recreational 2818.35 10.00 hectare by 2021
‘arms’, which were perpendicular to the main axis, had the and the third is the Yamuna Expressway which connects Agriculture 672.89 2.95
academic and leisure facilities. Greater Noida to Agra BUILDING Average building height in Irregular elevations with sharp
Transportation 2097.67 7.44 HEIGHT around 48m or a building with variations in structural systems
13 stories along height and improper
connection of different parts of
buildings
METHODOLOGY
PROPOSALS
FOOT OVER BRIDGE
Aerial View
Le Corbusier explained that for the
city to grow it is important that the
streets have “axes of accelerating
living” the solution to this was to
make streets intersect at right
angles. He believed that humans
are delighted by geometric shapes
and are pained by broken and
asymmetric lines
STREET VIEW
High speed traffic movement
acts as a barrier for pedestrian
movement and makes the lane
prone to accidents
A foot over bridge is designed
for pedestrians or in some
cases cyclist to cross the road
in India, Foot over bridge is
becoming very popular in urban
India as it help to cross the
road for pedestrians without
worrying about high speed
traffic, as well as its very safe
option without interrupt
Proposal of a foot over bridge across the road running
vehicles, in rural India it very
beside pearl housing complex
helpful to cross the rivers
Ground clearance of bridge -
8000 mm
Stairs riser - 150 mm
Tread - 300 mm
Slum Redevelopment Pilotis – City on stilts
Aerial View
Aerial View
Parking Problems in sector 44 – India is
• the clearance of the
facing a new problem nowadays – lack of
central city
enough parking space. With families
• the increase of the
getting smaller and the total number of
density of population
motor vehicles exceeding the total
• an increasing number of
number of heads per family, the parking
motorized vehicles
scenario is woefully falling short of the
• the extension of the
current requirements in the country. The
green-city concept -
situation is such that on any given
called “Pilotis”
working day approximately 40% of the
Street View roads in urban India are taken up for
just parking the cars.
In terms of habitation, he
recognized that “it was not One way to handle this is to take away
enough to design merely the subsidy provided for parking. The
comfortable homes, but that charges for parking should be
access, surroundings, determined as per the land value of the
amenities, and locations were area or the rent that is being charged
also crucial to the creation for the same.
of a satisfactory living
environment” The highlighted area has dense building
placement and most of the houses are
low rise. Roads around the houses are
9-meter-wide which leads to traffic
Slums have scatterly placed problems, congested traffic movement
houses which decreases the and parking problems.
population density of the
area as a result the distance
travelled in increased
Increased residential densities
to approximately 1000 person
per hectare These “radiant
farms” would supply
the population with social and
cultural facilities
Le Corbusier came up with an idea to
increase the green area in the city by
The low rising slums are
building the whole city on stilts. This
replaced with crucifical
principle will prove to be helpful to
skyscrapers, similar to
decrease the traffic problems in sector 44
Le Corbusier’s radiant
along with widening of the streets.
city to increase
population density