Delhi global institute of architecture.

front development
Manisha dhiman
Pre synopsis

Yamuna River

PROPOSAL: YAMUNA Riverfront development Zone O by Mrs.Savita

Bhandari, Additional Commissioner, Landscape and Environmental Planning
Deptt, DDA .
AIM:
To formulate the framework for Riverfront development as a Socio-Interactive space.
To conserve, protect and restore the Biodiversity of Yamuna River by Public Recreation
spaces that the city needs in framework of Zonal Development of Zone O.
OBJECTIVE:
o Explore network of public spaces that attract both citizens and tourist to riverfront.
o Identify the various needs of socio cultural response to recreational use .
o Identify issues and related problems of socio interactive spaces.
o To reestablish the rivers eco system so that people start using river for commuting
or recreation purpose; to protect the people and city activities from the floods and
havoc of river.
SCOPE OF THE STUDY:
A rational public space design for both social and ecological benefits, as well as
integration of coastal restoration construction.
LIMITATION:
o Inferences drawn will be on secondary references only.
o Limiting to a typology of socio interactive space for a riverfront.
METHODOLOGY:
A) LITERATURE REVIEW
o Design Strategies (Riverfront Development Kanakapura) by
A.R.Alagarsamy, CEPT, AHMADABAD & Analysis
B) DATA SYNTHESIS
o Riverfront as breathing space with meaningful socio interactive spaces
o Case studies of successful riverfronts with significant public open spaces:

Sabarmati, Ahmadabad
DESIGN STRATEGIES:

Active recreational facilities go hand in hand with passive recreation.

o Connecting all three zones (Protective biodiversity zone, Interactive biodiversity

zone, Public recreational zone) with green linkage system, which act as wildlife
movement corridor.
o

Develop an active corridor for recreation and leisure by adopting the concept of
mixed land uses including Commercial, Residential and Institutional uses. These
would house open facilities like playgrounds, theme parks and would be treated as
open recreational spaces that can be used by public residing in the city.
Introducing major concept as walk by treating it as showcase for the river.

ANALYSIS
Making the concrete riverfront like Ahmedabad would not be feasible here as
Yamuna River is extremely vulnerable to floods.
o This kind of riverfront development basically changes the ecological and social
space of the river altering it into an urban commercial space rather than a natural,
cultural, social and ecological landscape.
o The floodplains have been developed to make pathways and real estate
commercial projects.
o The need to conserve the 52-km stretch of the Yamuna in Delhi and Uttar Pradesh
as conservation zone and restoring the rivers ecological functions is also stressed.
This is possible only by keeping a strict check on environmental flow that passes
through this stretch, especially in the lean season.
o

The project involves developing infrastructural and recreational

facilities like parks, Yoga centers, picnic spots, golf course, sports
centers, polo grounds, etc. on Yamuna plains.

The project does not lay emphasis on sustaining, cleaning, and

rejuvenation of the river.

RIVERFRONT AS MEANINGFUL SOCIO INTERACTIVE SPACE

The impact that public spaces on a riverfront have can be seen in an areas
development in economy, peoples health, recreational & tourism
activities.
o Promotes human contact and social activities. At riverfront such spaces
establish waters edge that is continuous, publicly accessible and
magnificent.
o It utilizes city streets to create green corridors and provide valuable
connections to the riverfront.
o A continuous riverfront trail not only connects public open spaces but also
links destinations and serves as a platform for walking, jogging and other
related purposes.
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CASE STUDY
SABARMATI RIVER FRONT DEVELOPMENT, AHMADABAD CITY, INDIA.