SIR BEANT SINGH MEMORIAL

AND CENTER FOR PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS,

CHANDIGARH.
Chandigarh is one of the most significant
urban planning experiments of the 20th
century. It is the only one of the numerous
urban planning schemes of Le Corbusier
to have actually been executed. It is also
the site of some of his greatest
architectural creations. The city has
had a far-reaching impact, ushering in a
modern idiom of architecture and city
planning all over India. It has become a
symbol of planned urbanism. It is as
famous for its landscaping as for its
architectural ambience. Most of the
buildings are in pure, cubical form,
HISTORY:
geometrically
subdivided
with
Since
Punjab was divided
into two parts,
emphasis
on left
proportion,
scalefore
and
the
capital was
in Pakistan there
detail.in India required new capital
Punjab

APPROACH:
ISBT : 6.2 KM
RAILWAY STATION : 16.5
KM
NATIONAL HIGHWAY 5 : 5
KM
NEAREST BUS STOP : 1.4
KM

GEOGRAPHICAL AND
DEMOGRAPHICAL PROFILE

Area :114 sq. kms

Total Population (2011 census)
:10.55 Lacs(97.25% people live
in urban regions)
Density
population/sq.
km.
The site isof
located
at :7,900
LATITUDE

30-43

LONGITUDE

76-50

ALTITUDE

333 m

Area : 11.82 acres

Le Corbusier was approached by Punjab

government and the prime minister of
India
Chandigarh is a bold experiment in
modern civic design

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DISTANCE FROM
MAJOR CITIES:
DELHI : 244 KM.
LUDHIYANA : 107 KM
AMRITSAR : 229 KM
SHIMLA : 144 KM

SUSHMITA BISHT, B.ARCH, 5TH

YR.
M.E.T. (F.O.A.), MORADABAD

THESIS GUIDE: AR. BARKHA

KATARIA
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SIR BEANT SINGH MEMORIAL

AND CENTER FOR PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS,
CHANDIGARH.

Winter winds

Summer
sunset

winter
sunset

Summer
sunrise

winter
sunrise

CLIMATE :
Chandigarhhasahumidsubtropicalclimate
characterisedbyaseasonalrhythm:veryhotsummers,
mildwinters,unreliablerainfallandgreatvariationin
temperature

Summer
winds

The present condition

of site

SOIL
ANALYSIS
The soil strata in general
comprises of clayey silt
soils in the top layers
followed by sandy silt to
silty sands at depths
sector.

SUSHMITA BISHT, B.ARCH, 5TH

YR.
M.E.T. (F.O.A.), MORADABAD

THESIS GUIDE: AR. BARKHA

KATARIA
SITE STUDY
01

SIR BEANT SINGH MEMORIAL

AND CENTER FOR PERFORMING AND VISUAL ARTS,
CHANDIGARH.

9
1

Secretariat
building

HP PETROL UMP

AUDIT POOL
COLONY

2
9

DR. AMBEDKAT INSTITUTE OF HOTEL

MANAGEMENT

UDYAN
PARK

BABE DA
GURUDWARA

The Cultural
complex

GARDEN OF
SPRINGS

HOTEL
CHANDIGARH
BECKONS

The design of the city is based on agrid-iron

planbased on the hierarchy of movement from
highways to pedestrian walkways. The metaphor of
a human being was being employed in the plan
GARGEN OF
the head contained the capital complex, the heart
PALM
the commercial centre, and the arms, which were
PG GIRLS
perpendicular to the main axis, had the academic
COLLEGE
and leisure facilities. The plan incorporated Le
Corbusiers principles of light, space and
The roads of the city were classified into seven categories, known as the system
of 7 .Vs.
greenery
Le Corbusier opted for the concrete, something reasonable in a poor country fresh from the trauma of colonialism
and partition, but his idea was first set in brick.
Later Pierre Jeanerette Chandigarh build houses with bricks, stones and rounded instead of concrete blocks
painted white
Each sector operates as an independent city with its own infrastructure (schools, markets, hospitals, etc..) That are

High court
residences, offices, villas, structures such
asParliament building. high courts etc. Each of his
designs are very much different from one another.
Every building of his talks about his unique character
TH
and the purpose it is made for.

SUSHMITA BISHT, B.ARCH, 5

YR.
M.E.T. (F.O.A.), MORADABAD

THESIS GUIDE: AR. BARKHA

KATARIA
SITE STUDY
01