Design, Planning and Management
at Paritosh
This monograph illustrates the projects and proposals of four organizations.
HCP Design and Project Management Pvt. Ltd. (HCPDPM) is an
architecture, urban design and interior design firm. It was founded by
Hasmukh C Patel in 1960 and is the oldest of the four
organizations. Environmental Planning Collaborative (EPC) is a notfor-profit (Section 25) company established in 1996. It undertakes
work in urban and regional planning, planning legislation and
development management. EPC also pro-actively undertakes policy
analysis and advocates for meaningful and effective urban policy.
Geographis, established in 2000, specializes in mapping, geographic
information systems and software programming. EPC Development
Planning and Management (EPCDPM), established in 2002, is a
consultancy which provides planning services to urban development
bodies and other agencies involved in development planning.
These companies have grown from a common beginning and share
the conviction that good design, planning and management can
significantly improve human habitats. Located in the same office
building, Paritosh, Usmanpura, Ahmedabad, they cooperate closely
but have evolved their own identities and defend their own turf. The
reason for such organizational structuring is simple. Interior design,
architecture, urban design, urban and regional planning, urban
management and development management are all focussed on
improving the human habitat. Moreover, they all use similar skills and
have much to gain from cooperation and each others’ perspectives.
Yet, they operate at different levels, use different vocabularies and
ways of thinking and require separate organisational cultures.
Ahmedabad Management
Association,
the Vikram Sarabhai Foyer,
The projects and proposals presented here address a wide range of
problems - from Interior Design and Architecture to Regional
Planning and writing legislation.
We cherish the diversity of our work as well as the thread of common
concerns that runs through it. We are proud of the commitment of
professionals to interdisciplinary thinking at many levels, all of which
makes for a highly creative milieu at Paritosh. We also acknowledge
Regional Planning 6
Statutory City Planning 12
Urban Renewal Planning 22
Planning Legislation 30
Waterfronts 34
Streets 46
Underpasses 50
Parks and Gardens 56
Educational Campuses 60
Laboratories 74
Law Courts 78
Museums 82
Industrial Complexes 86
Commercial Real Estate 94
Corporate Offices 100
Townships 108
Residences 114
Interiors - Residential 122
Interiors - Commercial 126
Cartography 132
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HCP Design & Project
Management
Environmental Planning
Collaborative
HCP design and Project Management Pvt. Ltd.
(HCPDPM) has over forty years of experience in
interior design, architecture, urban design and project
management. Founded by Hasmukh C Patel in 1960,
the practice is now led by his son, Bimal Patel, an
architect & planner and one of the company’s directors.
Environmental Planning Collaborative (EPC), a notfor-profit company (incorporated under section 25 of
The Companies Act, 1956), was founded in 1996 by
Bimal Patel to contribute to improving urban and
regional planning in India. EPC believes that making
planning work is crucial to improving the condition of
our cities and regions. To this end, the organization
works closely with governments and development
agencies on specific planning projects, planning legislation, policy analysis & formulation, systems of regulation, training, capacity building and research &
advocacy.
B R Balachandran, an architect & urban
planner, now leads the organization as its Executive
Director.
HCPDPM’s design philosophy, forged early on by
Hasmukh Patel, has – first and foremost – been about
solving practical problems to make buildings comfortable and pleasurable. Even today, designers at
HCPDPM are driven first to clearly identifying the
‘practical problem’ that needs solving. This, of
course, is the Modernist credo, which HCPDPM
strives to make the cornerstone of its architecture.
The look and feel of buildings have to emerge from
the problem-solving process and remain true to the
possibilities inherent in the materials and technology
used. Good project management, aimed at building
well and within budget and time constraints, has also
been important to the office. On account of this, every
project is orchestrated by a senior architect responsible primarily for design, with a counterpart engineer
as project manager.
The firm has received several awards and accolades
including the Indian Institute of Architects Award
(2002); ar+d Commendation Award (2001); World
Architecture Award (2001); an Indian Institute of
Interior Designers Award (2003); the 14th JIIA Award
for Interiors (2002); a Great Masters Award by
J.K. Cement for Contribution to the Architectural
Profession (2000); the Baburao Mhatre Gold Medal
for Lifetime Achievement, from the Indian Institute of
Architects to Hasmukh Patel (1998) and the prestigious Aga Khan Award for Architecture (1992).
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EPC’s multi-disciplinary professional team has given
shape to a wide range of projects. These include
organizing workshops and seminars to preparing
urban and regional plans, developing coursework,
designing transport systems, writing books and advocating causes. By building competent professionals
and innovatively addressing real problems, EPC
hopes to facilitate a gradual reform in laws, policies,
institutions, systems and planning practice.
EPC’s significant projects include a revitalization plan
for Ahmedabad’s Walled City; a Development Plan for
Gandhi-nagar; a Development Plan and Town Planning
Schemes for Bhuj, Kachchh, after the 2001 earthquake; planning for the better ecological development
of the Kachchh Region and most recently, reformulating Delhi’s building bye-laws, a landmark project in
urban reform.
In 2003, the Prime Minister’s Award for Excellence in
Urban Design and Planning was awarded to EPC for
the Sabarmati River Front Development Project in
Ahmedabad. The 1998 UNCHS Global 100 Best
Practices Award commended EPC for its revitalization
plan for Surat’s inner city.
EPC Development Planning
and Management
Geographis
EPC Development Planning and Management Pvt.
Ltd. (EPCDPM) was incorporated in 2002. It is a consultancy whose objective is to demonstrate what a
professional private sector planning company in
India can be. Such demonstration is necessary and
crucial for two reasons. First, private sector capacity
to deliver urban and regional planning services is
severely underdeveloped in India, since traditionally
government has done in-house planning for everything. Second, Indian cities are changing and
rapidly expanding and there is an urgent need for
high-quality urban planning services to make them
more livable and efficient.
Geographis grew from the need for accurate and
informative analytical maps for planning, from the
cartographic capacities developed during the
course of EPC’s work and from a local software
development company’s need for domain knowledge. The company is led by Shetal Shah, who
holds degrees in Mathematics and Statistics.
While EPCDPM shares with EPC a common beginning and the same vision to improve the way urban
planning and urban management are done in India,
it differs in the fact that it is essentially a consultancy. The company focuses squarely on mandated
planning assignments. These include preparing
urban development plans, micro-level land reconstitution and infrastructure development plans
(Town Planning Schemes) and the production of
highly accurate topographical surveys. Shirley
Ballaney, an architect & urban planner, leads
EPCDPM as its Executive Director. She was
recently awarded a Hubert Humphrey Fellowship
and invited to attend the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology’s one-year Special Program for Urban
and Regional Studies (SPURS) in 2005-06.
EPCDPM’s significant projects include a Listing
and Grading of Heritage Buildings and Precincts
in Greater Mumbai (western suburbs); Town
Planning Schemes for Ahmedabad; a
Comprehensive Development Plan for Tirupati in
Andhra Pradesh and Sub-Regional Plans for two
districts of Gujarat.
The company’s mission is to continually improve
cartographic practices in urban and regional planning and to develop geographic information systems as a powerful tool to support decision making in govern- ment and businesses. Geographis’s
work includes survey, development, training, digital mapping, the development of GIS based decision and support systems and geographic database management.
Significant projects undertaken at Geographis
include the development of an outline building
plan permission system for the Municipal
Corporations of Ahmedabad and Rajkot; a GIS
based business intelligence system for Mother
Dairy (Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing
Federation); a Ground Control Point Library for
the Indian Space Research Organi-zation (ISRO);
highly accurate base maps for tsunami affected
towns, prepared for the Inter-national City
Management Association (ICMA), USA and a
Disaster Reconstruction Atlas, prepared for the
US-Asia Environmental Partnership at USAID.
The company won a Best Paper Award for its
presentation on systems of cartographic analysis
at Map India, 2003.
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Regional Planning
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Plan
Alang-Manar-Bharpara Sub-Regional
EPCDPM, 1999
The sub-region was one of the ten areas for which
the Government of Gujarat required development
strategies appropriate to conserving its coastal ecosystem. With an area of about 4,000 sq km, it covers
5 talukas and has a population of 1.2 million. The
region's economy depends upon ship breaking at
Alang. The plan assessed the region's ecology, general development and infrastructure needs, opportunities to diversify its economic base and its development constraints. It then proposed specific development projects, appropriate regional development policy,
implementation strategies and development legislation.
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Padra-Jambusar, Sub Regional Plan,
Gujarat
EPCDPM, 2001
The focus of the Sub Regional Plan is a huge industrial estate being proposed by the GIDC at Padra
and the existing industrial activities along the
Golden Corridor in the Sub region. The region is
already saturated with industrial activity that has
affected the ambient air quality, caused
contamination of ground and surface water and degradation of land. The total area of the sub region is
3400 sq km, it includes 5 talukas and has a population of about 1.9 million. The development strategy
for the region is aimed at strengthening and promoting new industrial activity in a
sustainable manner and suggests measures to pre-
Kachchh Ecology Fund
EPC, 2004
Kachchh's fragile ecology is susceptible to natural
disasters, most recently an earthquake in 2001.
Supported by the Royal Netherlands Embassy, New
Delhi, and United Nations Development Programme
and managed and implemented by EPC this Fund's
objective was to support planning for long term
drought proofing and development of Kachchh
District, Gujarat. In the first phase, a number of
development proposals were generated through a
public consultative
process. Analytical methods were also developed to
assist with drought proofing villages. In the second
phase, action plans for five critical sectors (water,
agriculture, animal
husbandry, grasslands and institutions) were prepared for the district. In the spirit of the 73rd and 74th
Constitutional Amendment Act of 1992, the plan was
aimed at
demonstrating how comprehensive planning can be
undertaken at the district level.
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Statutory City Planning
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AUDA Development Plan, Ahmedabad
EPC, 2000
EPC assisted the Ahmedabad Urban Development
Authority (AUDA) in revamping the Draft Development
Plan covering 1200 sq kms prepared by it in 1998.
The plan comprised proposals for growth management, broad land-use zoning, design of the major road
network and infrastructure and definition of building
regulations. The plan made a major shift from tradition; land acquisition and reservations mechanisms
were abandoned, road network and building regulations were rationalized and use of computerized mapping was introduced.
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Manori-Gorai Development Plan,
MMRDA
EPCDPM, Ongoing
Manori-Gorai-Uttan area, a naturally picturesque and
ecologically sensitive promontory off the Arabian Sea,
is to be developed as a Recreation and Tourism
Development Zone. The area covers 42 sq km and
includes eight villages. EPCDPM has been commissioned by the Mumbai Metropolitan Regional
Development Authority (MMRDA) to prepare a statutory Development Plan, keeping in view the ecologically sensitive context.
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Development Plan for Gandhinagar
EPC, 2002
Gandhinagar was planned in the 1970s. Inspired by
Chandigarh, it remained an insular urban enclave until
the late 1990s when the Government constituted the
Gandhinagar Urban Development Authority (GUDA) to
plan and manage development in a 400 sq km area.
In 1999, GUDA commissioned EPC to prepare the
area's first Statutory Development Plan. EPC introduced a progressive approach to land use zoning and
development controls regulations by incorporating a
range of zones differentiated by the nature of use,
density and urban design. A comprehensive
Development Strategy with project identification, cost
estimates and a cash flow analysis, was also prepared.
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Master
Structure Plan for TUDA Region and
Plan for Tirupati Town, Andhra Pradesh
EPCDPM, 2004
The Tirupati Urban Development Authority commissioned EPCDPM for developing the Statutory Master
Plan for Tirupati region a 900 sq km area. The temple
town of Tirupati attracts 55,000 pilgrims a day. The plan
for the region provided a framework to regulate and
guide urban growth. The Plan also included a regional
road network, strategies for conserving the regions
threatened network of water channels and lakes and,
proposals for tourism development. The more detailed
plan for the town addressed issues such as
decongestion of the central core and heritage protection.
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Town Planning Schemes, Ahmedabad
EPC and EPCDPM, Ongoing
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation has commissioned
EPC and EPCDPM to prepare various town planning
schemes for Ahmedabad. Town Planning Schemes (detailed planning exercises) address issues such as land
reconstitution, collection of charges for infrastructure
provision, appropriation of land for infrastructure and
social facilities and cadastral mapping. All of these are
undertaken in legally prescribed manner. EPC and
EPCDPM have managed to introduce innovations in the
process to expand the range of issues addressed
through these otherwise mechanistic land reconstitution
exercises.
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Urban Design and Development Plan for
Koba Knowledge City, GUDA
EPCDPM, Ongoing
The Government of Gujarat is creating a special zone to
attract IT/ ITES/ Business units in the area around the
villages of Koba, Raysan and Randesan along the
Ahmedabad- Gandhi-nagar Highway. The zone will be
built to international standards, supported by state of the
art high capacity infrastructure and an aesthetically
appealing urban environment. The total area under con-
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Urban Renewal Planning
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Walled City Revitalization Plan,
Ahmedabad
EPC, 1997
Ahmedabad's historic core covers an area of 5.8 sq
km and houses over 400,000 people. Consequently,
the walled city's infrastructure is severely stressed. It
remains rich in architectural and cultural heritage, and
is a prime tourist destination. Supported by the IndoUSAID FIRE Project, EPC prepared a revitalization
plan for the Walled City in collaboration with
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation. The plan's comprehensive approach to urban renewal addressed
road networking, public transport, water supply, sewerage, solid waste management, heritage conservation,
land deve-lopment, development controls and municipal asset management, to be implemented largely
through public private partnerships. Since then, several key components such as reforms in development
control, road network improvements and heritage initiatives have received attention. This plan is significant
for having paved the way for several systemic
improvements that EPC has since advocated in urban
planning. It was short listed by the UN-Dubai Habitat
Award as one of its “Global Hundred Best Practices.”
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Town Planning Schemes, Bhuj
EPC, 2004
During EPC's work on the Bhuj Development Plan, the
Government of Gujarat decided that the city's historic
core required detailed planning and design. Bhuj's
densely compacted walled city covered just over a
square kilometre, with over 12,000 plots of land and
over 24,000 properties. It had very narrow streets, cul
de sacs and bottlenecks which became death traps in
the earthquake. The old city was to be rebuilt safer,
with wider streets and public spaces, for which EPC
proposed a Town Planning Scheme, a land pooling
mechanism otherwise used in Gujarat to reorganize
agricultural land at the urban periphery to create
public infrastructure and well planned private lots. For
two years, EPC's planners consulted with stakeholders and undertook meticulous cadastral surveys
and planning. The plan's implementation has transformed the old city, making it safer, with wider, continuous streets and new, safer housing.
Surat Inner City Revitalization Plan
EPC, 1998
This plan to revitalize the inner city of Surat followed
on the footsteps of EPC's plan for reviving
Ahmedabad's walled city. Surat's infrastructure, similarly taxed by urban congestion, called for a planning
process that would intensely involve both municipal
officials and elected representatives from the inner
city. As comprehensive and integrated in its scope as
Ahmedabad's walled city revitalization plan, this set
of projects looked additionally at building institutional
capacity for integrated utilities management and proposed special projects, including river front development, redeveloping the historic fort & its environs and
redeveloping Gopi Talav, a derelict manmade lake.
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Planning Legislation
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Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957
(Amendment) Bill and
New Building Bye-laws for Delhi
EPC, 2005
The project's objective was to improve Delhi's
severely stressed building regulation system by significantly revising and improving the legislation in the
Delhi Municipal Corp-oration (DMC) Act, 1957 that
enables building regulations, and by framing new procedures & building performance byelaws. In the first
phase, a Policy Agenda and Legislative Intentions
paper was prepared, following a series of deliberative
meetings with a wide variety of regulatory agencies.
In the project's second phase, a new chapter was written to replace provisions in the DMC Act for building
regulation, restructured simpler in ways that clearly
distinguished between procedure, building performance and planning byelaws. This exercise represents a radical departure from legislative and regulatory tradition. The new approach invests far greater
ethical responsibility in professionals, along with commensurate power, autonomy and privilege. EPC is
currently assisting the Municipal Corporation of Delhi
to monitor and guide consultants in preparing five
model Local Area Plans and area specific building
regulations.
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Reform of Gujarat's Development
Regulation System
EPC, 2004
EPC was entrusted with reviewing the development
regulation system in Gujarat. The project involved proposing a broad framework for a new development
regulation system. This was funded by the Asian
Development Bank (ADB) and administered by the
Gujarat State Disaster Management Authority
(GSDMA) in Gujarat, under the project ‘Capacity
Building for Earthquake Rehabilitation &
Reconstruction.’ Selecting Ahmedabad as a case
study, EPC undertook a detailed exercise to document rationales/principles for regulations and reformulated the city's regulations based on modern planning, economic, and urban design theory.
Legal & Administrative Framework for
Development Regulation in Gujarat
EPC, 2006
Gujarat's system of development regulation is perceived as being opaque, unfair, complicated, and
costly, resulting in low compliance. The objective of
this project is to improve the quality of the built environment by improving the system of regulating development by means of modern legislative and administrative reforms. It focuses on reducing hindrances in
procedures to make them efficient, speedy, transparent, non arbitrary & fair and on upholding the fundamental premise, which is to protect public safety and
the environment. The project has been jointly funded
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Waterfronts
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Sabarmati Riverfront Development,
Ahmedabad,
EPC-HCPDPM, Ongoing
In 1997, the Sabarmati Riverfront Development
Corporation (a wholly owned subsidiary of the
Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation) commissioned
EPC to prepare a comprehensive feasibility study to
develop a 9 km stretch of the city's riverfront. EPC
provided development management services to
SRFDCL until 2002. During this period its mandate
was to direct and monitor all the preparatory work.
Since then HCPDPM has been responsible for the
project's architectural, urban and structural design.
The riverfront project is a comprehensive environmental improvement project which involves river training,
constructing retaining walls, providing storm water
outfalls, ghats and jetties, reclaiming 162 hectares of
land, providing interceptor sewers, creating parks and
gardens, designing new streets & promenades with
better street lighting, providing housing for economically weaker sections and informal markets and constructing utility buildings & structures.
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Marine Drive Refurbishment, Mumbai,
Competition Entry, HCPDPM, 2004
The MMRDA invited competition entries to propose
measures to refurbish approximately 3.3 km of Marine
Drive, Mumbai's most iconic stretch of road along the
Arabian Sea. The proposed design articulated an elegant and efficient street layout as the basis for good
waterfront circulation, sufficiently nuanced to accommodate all its diverse uses and provided specific solutions to improve and facilitate fast moving traffic, traffic intersections, vehicular and pedestrian access,
parking, design new & efficient bus bays and taxi parking, organized hawking, tree cover, facilities for promenading and exercising and promote an awareness of
the waterfront's heritage.
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Kankaria Lakefront Redevelopment,
Ahmedabad,
Proposal,
HCPDPM, Ongoing
This proposal by HCPDPM envisions a comprehensive lakefront precinct, set in the heart of Ahmedabad,
which will stand out as a memorable urban space. Its
primary objective is to create an efficient, durable
infrastructure that will foster entirely new uses in addition to supporting current day activities. Strategies
include creating large pedestrian zones along the
lake's edge, developing approximately 6 km of access
streets, creating access points to the lakefront,
enhancing recreational potential by improving public
facilities, conserving historic buildings and encouraging overall development around it. The plan emphasizes on good design detailing for sidewalks, carriageways and on street parking, facilities for the informal
sector and access ramps to the lake's ghats.
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Integrated Street Redevelopment Project,
Ahmedabad
HCPDPM, Ongoing
This project under the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation
uses an integrated approach to developing approximately 140 km of streets in the city. Streets are being
designed in a standardized way that would make construction simple and efficient. The project is significant for
its attempt to promote humane design detailing that
would be sensitive to the concerns of pedestrians, especially the disabled. The project aims to accommodate
public transport, organize traffic and to better orient
pedestrians. Street facilities will include on street parking, underground infrastructure, plantation, controlled
informal activities, garbage collection, street signage,
lighting & traffic signals and traffic calming measures.
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C.G. Road Redevelopment, Ahmedabad
EPC, 1997
The design for a stretch of approximately 3.5 km of C.G.
Road in Ahmedabad addressed issues of vehicular movement, shopping, residential access, electric & telephone
cabling and parking. Its objective was to resolve conflicts
in street use in the most efficient manner possible,
through careful detailing. Detailed design inputs included
providing parking for 400 cars and 1,200 scooters, a 22 ft
wide two lane carriage way on both sides of the road
median, a 17.5 ft wide pedestrian footpath and street
utilities. The project's significance lies not only in its
design but also the development of a new financing
mechanism to implement it and in its intensive project
and construction management.
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Parimal Underpass, Ahmedabad,
Proposal
HCPDPM, 2006
The proposal for a Railway underpass at Parimal
Crossing, one of Ahmedabad's busiest traffic arteries,
was intended to help ease the flow of road traffic. The
underpass was slated to be 355 m long, 17.5 m wide
and 4.5 m high. It is proposed with a four lane motorized carriageway flanked on either side by a single
pedestrian lane that could accommodate bicycles as
well. This pedestrian lane is designed such that users
would be required to descend only 2.4 m. It was proposed that the underpass be constructed in exposed
reinforced cement concrete, with paver blocks for
pedestrian lanes. It would feature concealed light fixtures, and mild steel railings along pedestrian lanes.
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Rajkot Municipal Corporation Underpass,
Rajkot
HCPDPM, 2004
Kalavad Road in Rajkot is a commercial and institutional artery which leads to the city's centre. In 2002,
RMC
proposed a railway underpass to alleviate
road traffic. HCPDPM provided detailed design services for a 550 m long and approximately 20 m wide
underpass, clearly
segregating motorized from nonmotorized traffic. The four lane RCC main carriageway is flanked by two elevated lanes for non motorized
traffic and street lighting. This unique concept of an
elevated lane for non motorized traffic does away
with carts, cyclists, and pedestrians
having to
descend 6 m to the motorized surface.
Indian Institute of Management,
Underpass to New Campus, Ahmedabad
HCPDPM, 2004
This underpass, approximately 270 ft long and built in
exposed concrete, connects the older campus of IIMA,
designed by Louis Kahn, with the new campus, proposed by HCPDPM (under a national competition in
2004). Both campuses are separated by a 132 ft wide
ring road, which is likely to develop in future as a
major high speed traffic artery. Apart from providing
pedestrian access, the underpass also features stateof-the-art large capacity lifts to facilitate the movement
of small goods. The underpass is designed as an
attempt to make the movement path more interactive
and almost like an experience in itself. It is projected
as a subtle transition from one space to another and
not just a movement path.
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Redeveloping B.J. Park, Ahmedabad
HCPDPM, 1998
Bhikhabhai Jivabhai Park is a municipal garden which
stretches along the western bank of the river Sabarmati
between Nehru Bridge and Ellis Bridge. HCPDPM
worked with the Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation to
redesign the park and supervise its execution. The challenge in this instance was to retain the central promenade's structure and preserve select elements. The
new design made the park more visible and accessible
to the handicapped. Facilities include fountains &
lawns, an art gallery, new benches and walking tracks.
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Refurbishing the Golconda-Qutb Shahi
Tombs, Hyderabad, Proposal
EPC, 2000
The Andhra Pradesh Travel and Tourism Development
Corporation (APTTDC) approached EPC for a plan to
upgrade infrastructure and facilities at the 16th Century
fortress of Golconda in Hyderabad, continually occupied for more than 450 years, and its nearby complex
of royal Qutb Shahi tombs. The plan proposed building
consensus between multiple administrative authorities,
restructuring the complex's administrative boundaries,
sensitively redesigning public facilities, adaptively using
select historic buildings, removing obtrusive objects
and architectural features, and interpreting the site
better for visitors. No restorative measures were proposed for historic buildings because they were seen to
require specialist attention.
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Educational Campuses
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Entrepreneurship Development Institute,
Ahmedabad,
HCPDPM, 1987
The Entrepreneurship Development Institute is an
autonomous, not-for-profit institution, established in
1983. Based on the idea that entrepreneurial talent
need not be inherent but can be nurtured through innovative training, the institute is devoted to provide specialized entrepreneurship education, training &
research, consultancy services and quality teaching &
training material to approximately 110 postgraduate
students each year. The design for the EDI campus
was the focus of a national competition, and called for
an innovative design brief to evoke a combined sense
of modernity and tradition. The campus covers 23
acres, with 6,000 sq m built up area. Buildings are
designed in exposed brick, exposed concrete and steel.
The Academic Facilities include 4 classrooms, 4 seminar rooms, a 250-seat auditorium, a library (for 30,000
books), administrative facilities and a board room.
Additional facilities provided are a café, hostels with 90
rooms for 2 students each and 10 dormitories; and
faculty housing with 6 row houses and 6 flats. The
campus won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture in
1992.
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Indian Institute of Management,
New Campus, Ahmedabad,
HCPDPM, Ongoing
Under a national competition HCPDPM was awarded the
project for the design of an extension to Louis Kahn's
IIMA, an institute of international repute devoted to management education. The 39-acre campus houses an
International Management Centre and accommodates
additional hostels for an expanded postgraduate program in management. The new extension campus provides teaching & residential facilities for the Institute's
postgraduate programme, an International Management
Centre for Innovation & Incubation and sports facilities.
Other facilities include 9 dormitories for 340
students;
an academic block with 5 classrooms and seminar
rooms; administrative facilities; IMDC Hostels; 20 blocks
for married students; 6 VIP suites; a sports complex;
kitchen & dining facilities; a CIIE Block and 100
guestrooms. Disability access has been provided to all
public areas. The new campus' buildings have been
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Ahmedabad Management Association,
Ahmedabad,
HCPDPM, 1997
The Ahmedabad Management Association (AMA) is a
not-for-profit organization of over 400 industries in the
city. HCPDPM was appointed to design a new building
that would house the Association's various activities in
a carpet area of 2,510 sq m. The building is built in reinforced concrete, the frames of its fenestration are in
mild steel and the entire exterior is treated with silicon
based fungal repellant against weathering. The building's programme consists of a ground floor given to
classrooms and a bookshop and an upper floor housing
a 250 seat auditorium, a library and an exhibition
space. The AMA building won the World Architecture
Award in 2001 and an ar+d High Commendation the
same year.
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Eklavya School, Ahmedabad
HCPDPM, 2002
Eklavya Education Foundation is a trust established in
1997 in Ahmedabad. It is a nursery to class XII, coeducational, English medium day school, devoted to the
all round development of approximately 1,000 students.
Eklavya's campus covers 35 acres in the outskirts of
Ahmedabad, with 6 buildings covering a total built up
area of 12,000 sq m. Facilities have been designed for
schools at preprimary, junior, middle and senior levels,
including a middle school computer laboratory, science
laboratories from junior to senior school levels, libraries,
a science park, gymnasium and an institute for teachers' training. A range of building materials and finishes
has been used, including exposed concrete, plastered
brick, exterior heritage finishing for the walls and a mix
of aluminum & mild steel fenestrations.
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Narotam Sekhsaria School of
Biotechnology, Mumbai
HCPDPM, Ongoing
HCPDPM has been commissioned by “Narotam
Sekhsaria Foundation” to design a school building for
Biotechnology in the existing campus of ICT- Mumbai.
Conceptualized as a ten storeyed structure, the block
is ‘L’ shaped with two functionally symmetrical wings
tied together by a central core consisting of an atrium
which rises through the height of the building. The
building houses four departments, namely: Oil &
Surfactant, Pharmaceutical Science & Technology,
Biotechnology and Food Engineering & Technology for
undergraduate, post graduate and research students.
The utilities and services required for the laboratories
have been carefully detailed and seamlessly integrated
with the structural system.
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Cadila R & D, Changodar, Gujarat
HCPDPM, 1998
This is a research campus located in Changodar,
Gujarat, designed for Cadila Healthcare Ltd, a leading
pharmaceutical company with its headquarters in
Ahmedabad. The campus spread on a 40,000 sq m
site, was designed to cover a built up area of 11,650 sq
m. The design, in exposed cement concrete, is dominated by an axial building with thirteen equal bays over
3 floors. The spaces are organized along the campus'
central corridor, housing laboratories devoted to pharmacology, biotechnology, medicinal chemistry and
analytical research. Supportive facilities include administration offices, an auditorium, meeting & conference
rooms, an animal house, radioactive laboratories, canteen, utility block and pilot plant.
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Gujarat High Court, Ahmedabad
HCPDPM, 1998
The 6-storeyed Gujarat High Court Complex located on
Sarkhej-Gandhinagar Highway, sits on a 55,000 sq m
site. The Main Court building features 33 courtrooms,
of which 32 are identical with 50 seats each and one
with 200 seats for the First Court. Each courtroom is
connected to a judge's chamber, anteroom and a personal assistant's office. Separate entrances to courtrooms provide judges with exclusive access. In addition to this, the courts feature offices for key administrative personnel, judges' lounge, committee rooms, a
library, eighteen additional chambers, computer centre,
space for Gujarat Government offices and staff, a
bank & post office, offices for the Bar Council and Bar
Association and chambers for advocates. The campus has total five entrances: two ceremonial, one for
the use of judges and two for general use. All buildings
are built in concrete with plastered walls and face large
gardens.
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Museum of Pharmacology, SEZ Zydus
Cadila Healthcare, Ahmedabad,
HCPDPM, Ongoing
Zydus Cadila, a major pharmaceutical company, has
awarded HCPDPM a project to design a new international museum of medicine for its pharmaceutical
Special Economic Zone in Ahmedabad. The museum
aims to trace the history of medicine, from ancient practices to the present; spanning Ayurveda, Homoeopathy,
Unani and up to the latest developments in genetic
research. The museum occupying the SEZ's entire
frontage of 400 m is expected to be a modernistic
structure built in exposed concrete and glass. The
museum will feature several exhibition spaces and galleries, with optimum use of natural light, and large landscaped courtyards.
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SMC Science Centre, Museum and
Art Gallery, Surat
HCPDPM, Ongoing
Surat Municipal Corporation invited competition entries
in 2004 to design a science centre, museum and art
gallery that would explain the history, geography, culture and technology of science to Surat's public.
HCPDPM's proposal for the design is a complex of
three buildings: a science centre, a museum and an art
gallery. The Science Centre accommodates shops,
exhibition areas, restaurant & cafeteria, a
250 seat
auditorium and a mild steel biosphere, clad in stainless
steel, houses a planetarium which can also be used for
extreme wide projections and other enhanced multimedia shows for approximately 150 viewers. The Centre
features spider glazing and stone cladding. The
museum and art gallery, although two separate buildings, provide similar
facilities: an exhibition area
for art materials, models & other objects and parking &
storage space in a basement common to all buildings.
Each structure will be constructed using exposed reinforced concrete interspersed with steel structures. The
external surface is proposed as fair finish concrete
coated with protective silicone to deter weathering. The
interiors have internal partitions made of calcinated
phosphogypsum (QED), a variety of stone floorings
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Industrial Complexes
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Core Emballage Factory,
Radu Village, Gujarat
HCPDPM, 1996
Core Emballage Ltd. is a corrugated paper product
manufacturing company in Ahmedabad. Core commissioned HCPDPM to design a 45,000 sq m manufacturing facility for the company at Radu. Its triangular site
is bound by a district highway on one side and natural
water canals on two other sides. The designed structure of the plant building is composed of 36 m and 29
m span steel portal frames, hollow concrete block
masonry walls and precoated steel sheet roofing.
Facilities include a water tank, DG house, fuel tanks,
service verandah, pipe rack, loading/unloading bays,
utilities, glue kitchen, raw material store, Peter's corrugator, inter-mediate storage, Martin box making and
printing, a finished goods store, utility complex and
guesthouse. The building design theme concentrates
on letting in ample natural light and the use of bright
primary colours as accents to structural elements. The
project's significance lies in the manner in which design
detailing was conceptualized and synchronized to efficiently sequence all construction activity in the course
of a fast paced project.
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Claris Lifesciences, Ahmedabad
HCPDPM, 2002
Claris Lifesciences Ltd., a leading pharmaceutical
manufact- uring company in the country, headquartered in Ahmedabad, commissioned HCPDPM to
design approximately 16,000 sq m of production facilities for them at Changodar. The buildings included a
main plant building, a utility block, admi-nistrative areas
and an animal house. The complex features sophisticated utility services, including loading/unloading bays,
a canteen and an effluent treatment plant, with scope
for future expansion. Facilities in the main plant building include prefabricated clean rooms for actual production facilities, pre and post sterilization areas, storage, packing & goods areas, a weighbridge, boiler
room, RO and DM plant, softening plant, substation,
dockyards, FO-HSD tank farm, an administrative building, and a canteen. A key technological innovation has
been to integrate services and utilities into the structural depth of roof spans to reduce their height and
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KHS Machinery, Ahmedabad,
HCPDPM, Ongoing
HCPDPM's bottling production plant building for KHS
Machinery covers 18,750 sq m. The facility is notable
for its inverted sheet roofing, clear span and length.
The plant's four sheds span 27 m by 120 m. Its trusses,
which span 26 m, are notable for the fact that they
appear above the roof, not below it, in order to obtain a
clean undersurface to the roof and avoid a false ceiling.
A gantry with a capacity of 20 tons runs along the
entire clear span to make the production area flexible.
The plant's facilities include production areas, utility
blocks, stores for raw material, canteens, paint shop, a
training centre, administrative offices and change/toilet
areas.
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Mother Dairy, GCMMF, Gandhinagar
HCPDPM, 1994
This is a fully automated, 18,000 sq m, computerized
dairy built for GCMMF Ltd, having a production capacity of 10,00,000 litres per day. Adjoining this dairy are
milk powder and butter plants in addition to cheese
production facilities. The dairy includes a separate unit
for workers' amenities, designed for an efficient, working environment. Facilities in the dairy include milk processing, nine storage silos and administrative offices &
staff quarters. The factory and administrative building
are planned around a central landscaped courtyard,
with access at all levels and areas. The entire facility is
well lit with natural light from skylights and windows.
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Arvind Mills Garment Factory,
Santej Village, Gujarat, HCPDPM, Ongoing
The Arvind Mills Pvt Ltd appointed HCPDPM to design
a widespan production unit for their garment manufacturing factory. On a site of 50,300 sq m, the project
brief called for approximately 9,600 sq m of facilities
including stores for fabrics, cutting sections, an
embroidery area, utility area for a boiler, DG set, and
transformer, a canteen, packing areas, warehouses,
administrative & production offices, a change/toilet
area, lockers and a spacious courtyard inside. The factory's roof structure is designed as a self supporting
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City Centre for Ahmedabad, Proposal
HCPDPM, 2005
This proposal for a City Centre for Ahmedabad was
HCPDPM's design entry to a competition organized by
Alpha Buildtech Pvt Ltd, New Delhi. The centre is
planned on a 15-acre site, with a built area of 100,000
sq m. HCPDPM proposed constructing a 25-storey
tower, built of exposed concrete housing offices, hotels
and a shopping mall.
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JMC House, Ahmedabad
HCPDPM, 1998
JMC House was the first speculative building venture
by JMC Projects India Ltd, a leading construction and
engineering firm. The designed building is a fully serviced structure with a built up area of 6,200 sq m, providing flexible office space on each floor to address
modern day computer networking needs. Its design
conforms to local building bye-laws without succumbing to their inherent limitations and has been extremely
well detailed, leaving no room for poor supervision or
substandard construction. Air conditioning units do not
mar its facade. Saleable space has been sychro-nized
with the building's sale strategy, whereby, generic office
layouts have been used to determine the position of
columns in the building, and flat slabs do away with
RCC beams. The building has become a model for fire
safety in high rise buildings in Ahmedabad.
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Sarthik II, Ahmedabad
HCPDPM, 1998
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Vishwa Banga Shikhar, Kolkata,
Competetion Entry
HCPDPM, 2005
This was a competition entry for Bengal Ambuja
Housing Development Ltd, to design a mixed use complex in Kolkata (the Vishwa Banga Shikhar), with
approximately 135,000 sq m built up area. The proposed complex features two towers (50 and 35 stories
tall) with residential and hotel facilities, a shopping
mall, convention centre, club house, office block and
car parking. Buildings were proposed to feature
exposed finishes and external cladding.
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Sarthik IV, 'Safal Mondeal', Proposal,
Ahmedabad
HCPDPM, 2005
This proposal of a commercial-cum-office complex,
having a total built up area of 34,567 sq m, comprises
of two structures separated by soft landscape. This
included a commercial building & an office building,
with common multi level mechanized basement parking. The commercial block houses sixteen shops distributed on the ground and first floors, and has space
for eleven offices (one per floor) spread on ten additional floors. The office block has exclusive office space
on all floors. The proposed finishes are exposed brick
and exposed concrete. The other highlighted features
include full length glazing and louvers on the building's
southern facade.
Safal Engineers and associates commissioned
HCPDPM to design the commercial complex on a plot
situated on fast developing Sarkhej-Gandhinagar highway. The complex covers a built-up area of 11,500 sq
m. Ground and first floor comprise of shops and showrooms which face the main road. The upper three
floors are dedicated to office spaces of varying sizes
and are accessed through an independent entry from
the side road. The front facade is fully glazed with double glazed units incorporating adjustable louvers
between the glasses. This helps modulate the natural
light, control the direct sun and minimize dust and
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Corporate Offices
101-103 Cadila Pharmaceuticals Corporate
Headquarters, Bhat, Gujarat
HCPDPM, 2000
Cadila Pharmaceuticals, one of India's foremost pharmaceutical manufacturing companies, asked HCPDPM
to provide design consultancy for their corporate campus at Bhat, near Dholka, Gujarat. The campus is
spread over approximately 5 acres and with a total
built up area of approximately 80,000 sq ft, housing
office blocks, a guest house, training centre, canteen
and directors' offices. It is divided into two clusters. The
office cluster comprises of six buildings designed radially in the form of a fan from a centrally located pond.
The second cluster of buildings includes a training centre, a canteen, a 35-room guesthouse, sports facilities
and a meditation room.
106-107 Chennai Container Terminal Operations
Centre, Chennai
HCPDPM, 2005
HCPDPM partnered with Babtie Consultants India Pvt.
Ltd. to design an Operations Centre for the Chennai
Container Terminal, run by P&P Ports India Ltd. The
building occupies a built up area of 2,500 sq m. Its
facade faces a panoramic view of the terminal's port
operations, and is sheathed continuously in a skin of
glass, making it transparent from one side. The building's facilities include administrative offices, a training
hall and utility rooms. The top floor consists of the control tower for the operation centre.
104-105 Wagh Bakri House, Ahmedabad
HCPDPM, 2006
Wagh Bakri are well known tea blenders of
Ahmedabad. The company, which till now operated
from disparate offices, commissioned HCPDPM to
design its headquarters that would consolidate all its
operations in a single building. The structure occupies
a built up area of 3,400 sq m and measures 36m in
length and 8m in width. It is oriented so that its main
glass facade faces north. Facilities include cabins for
directors, managers and support staff, reception/waiting rooms and meeting rooms on all floors, a
board room and a lunch room with pantry. Services
include an AHU, elevators, electric room, restrooms
and storeroom. The building also features two levels of
basement parking.
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P&O Township, Mundra, Kachchh
HCPDPM, 2005
P&O Ports (India) Pvt. Ltd. required a 990-unit township for 6,000 people with a total built up area of
45,000 sq m, to complement its container terminal in
Mundra, Kachchh. The township was required to be
functional in two years. The company appointed
HCPDPM to design residential units and a range of
facilities on a modular grid, serviced by two axial roads.
Residential units include three types of apartments, two
types of bungalows, a club house, playgrounds, shopping centre, and an exchange building. The township
runs its own plants for reverse osmosis water treatment, hydro pneumatic water distribution and sewage
treatment.
112-113 Birla Dham Township, Kosamba, Gujarat
HCPDPM, 1997
The Birla Cellulosic Company manufactures viscous
staple fibres. The architectural brief included a vast
township covering a total built up area of 4,00,000 sq
m. The design is organized as two distinct colonies for
staff (approximately 27,000 sq m) and workers (approximately 13,400 sq m). It is equipped with an independent supporting infrastructure, including an electric
substation, club house and shopping centre. Facilities
common to both colonies include
a guesthouse,
bachelors' hostels, and a swimming pool. Common
public buildings, which occupy a built up area of
approximately 13,500 sq m, include a school, hospital,
bank and post office.
110-111 Batanagar Township, Kolkata
HCPDPM, Ongoing
The Batanagar township, designed for Riverbank
Holdings Pvt. Ltd., Kolkata, is designed on the land
surrounding the Bata Shoe Factory on the banks of
River Hooghly. Based on an existing master plan, five
architectural firms were asked to develop five parcels,
all of varying sizes, function and architectural
programme. HCPDPM designed a built up area of
155,000 sq m, with housing around a 9-hole golf
course at the heart of the township. Four types of villas
and two types of luxury apartment buildings are
arranged around a central green in different configurations and sizes. Facilities include a golf clubhouse,
golf workshop, playgrounds and gathering space, and
ponds. The access to housing is exclusively provided
from an internal road.
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Residences
114-117 Ismet-Bimal Residence, Ahmedabad,
HCPDPM, 2003
Designed by an architect couple for their family, this
arrangement of buildings in exposed brick and concrete occupies a total built up area of 604 sq m and
includes
a house built in an elongated, linear
shape, a guesthouse separated from the main building,
and servants' quarters. The house, which occupies a
built up area of 430 sq m, is dominated by a deep
verandah which runs its entire length and faces a large
garden. The house is divided into living
& dining
areas and bedrooms, accessed from a corridor which
also doubles as a library. Built without conventional
windows, the house features large glass doors and
louvered panels for ventilation. The roof over each
space has been lifted slightly to ventilate it and let in
natural light.
118-121 Canna-Mukesh Residence, Ahmedabad,
HCPDPM, 2005
This is a three-bedroom house for an architect and her
husband, an IT consultant. Equipped with living & dining areas and a library, it occupies a built up area of
approximately 8,700 sq ft and a carpet area of 5,000
sq ft. The house, built in exposed brick and exposed
concrete, is a load bearing structure with flat slabs. Its
kitchen is flexibly partitioned for it to extend into the
dining room and vestibule. A perpendicular verandah
projects out into an ample garden, punctuated by large
trees which appear to envelope the building.
Fenestrations provide considerable cross ventilation
and a full, double height window accentuates the east
facade. Doors and windows are of aluminum and
glass, especially designed and die cast, with louvers to
diffuse light and deter dust and mosquitoes.
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Handa Poolhouse, Ahmedabad
HCPDPM, 2004
The building is a rugged looking concrete structure,
designed minimally, with large openings facing an
adjoining swimming pool. It measures 100 ft in length
on an east-west axis, and 22 ft wide with the entry at
one end along the north facade adjoining a garden.
The long narrow rectangular interior space was subdivided internally into small compartments to accommodate billiards, table tennis and pool tables, as well
as spaces for a board games area, a wet bar and a
fully equipped home theatre. Each function with its own
clearly demarcated space achieved a distinct design
treatment. These design solutions ensured that the
single architectural volume of the space would remain
undisturbed. The overall space maintains a material
restraint, finished entirely in metal, wood and glass.
Refined interiors contrast with the ruggedness of
exposed concrete ceilings, beams and fin shaped columns along one edge of the building. The project
called for unusual, custom-designed furniture which
included stands and trays for cue sticks and billiard
balls;
a custom designed carom board with low movable chairs, metal stands to house elaborate speakers
and a stainless steel service trolley with accessories.
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Courtyard House, Ahmedabad
HCPDPM, 2004
The client, a jeweller and a real estate developer by
profession, commissioned HCPDPM to design the
architecture and interiors of his residence, having a
built up area of 6,500 sq ft. The project is located on the
outskirts of the city of Ahmed-abad in Gujarat, India.
The four-bedroom house is itself a double-storied,
exposed brick building with open plan and spaces flowing into one another. The project had to consider the
design for living and dining areas, bedrooms, utility
areas, sanitary facilities, a courtyard, prayer room,
home theatre, and toilets. The focal point of the house
is a central courtyard from which branch off the other
living areas. The architecture sets the tone for the interiors. Large doors open out from the living area to the
verandah. The house's interior features handcrafted
wooden furniture, earthy colours, textiles, and reed matting for window blinds, and especially commissioned
installation art. The project exem-plifies a cost effective
solution that is suitable to sub tropical climatic conditions and which requires little maintenance.
Suburban Townhouse, Ahmedabad
HCPDPM, 2005
This is a four-bedroom house in suburban Ahmedabad,
for which Italian marble, wood furniture and specially
commissioned art became signature strategies to
enliven a conventional interior. Lineworks, an art consultant, assisted HCPDPM in commissioning four
works of art: two as architectural elements, and two
as installation art. The work illustrated here, a mural,
which straddles two walls and part of the ceiling, is executed in fiberglass and brass.
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Safal Engineers and Associates,
Ahmedabad
HCPDPM, 2004
Safal Engineers and Associates, a real estate firm,
required interiors for their corporate office, with a carpet area of 2,200 sq ft. The client's brief specified five
director's cabins with ancillary spaces. The challenge
was to accommodate several visitors to the office without compromising on available space. The interiors
optimize natural light and the graphic screens illustrate the firm's corporate branding. Facilities include an
entrance foyer & reception, waiting area, conference
room, directors' cabins, coordinator's cabin, an executive lounge, a work room, pantry, toilets, and utilities.
128-129 Cardiac UNO, Ahmedabad
HCPDPM, 2005
Cardiac UNO is a cardiac rehabilitation centre supported by a family trust in Ahmedabad. The trust
approached HCPDPM for its services to design the
centre's interiors for a carpet area of 5,000 sq ft. It is
divided into an ABVS monitored exercise area and a
multiple use space for seminars, aerobics, yoga and
physiotherapy. All these activities are tied together by
an investigation corridor which leads to medical consulting rooms, rooms for echogram, ECG, TMT and Xray examinations and wet utilities. Materials used
include glossy black vitrified flooring to conceal electrification and computer cabling, acoustic fabric mounting
for ceilings designed to relieve the structural monotony
of beams, screen printed curtains in graphic compositions of herbal neem leaves for windows and patients'
examination areas, wired translucent and transparent
glass, textured finishes and handmade paper for corridor murals. Window screens are of three types; made
with recycled wood, paper and custom made screen
printed sheers. These screens capitalize on natural
light and the best possible views. This project exemplifies the interior designer's challenge to efficiently and
serviceably incorporate air conditioning, computer
networking and plumbing into a building.
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JMC Projects India Ltd., Ahmedabad
HCPDPM, 2001
HCPDPM were asked to design the interior of JMC
Projects India Limited construction company's offices in
Ahmedabad. The interior designer's challenge in this
instance was to internally connect two floors in an otherwise constrained space, without making alterations to
the building's concrete structural frame and to reuse
existing furniture. Four departments occupying a carpet
area of 9,000 sq ft, spread over two floors are
accounts, management, purchase & sales and projects. Facilities include office space for junior and
senior executives, work halls, a conference room &
meeting rooms and dining rooms for executives & staff.
Space also had to be provided for reprographic equipment, wet utilities and archival storage. Interiors have
been designed using vitrified flooring, aluminum and
glass partitions, plywood storage units, hard wood laminate furniture, and a range of colours (cobalt blue) that
complement the company's brand.
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Surana Jewellers Showroom, New Delhi
HCPDPM, 2003
The house of Surana has been a leading name in
enameled and kundan jewellery in Rajasthan since
1735. The Suranas asked HCPDPM to design the interiors to their new showroom in New Delhi. The showroom is located in a mixed use building, with a carpet
area of 4,500 sq ft. The HCPDPM team included architects, a textile designer, graphic designer, and sculptor.
The project's scope included developing the site,
designing displays and technical lighting and
logo/statio-nery design. The team chose to graphically
abstract peacock and kundan jewellery motifs in contemporary manner, using these in furniture upholstery,
carpets and on walls.
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Cartography
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Post-disaster Assessment in Anjar Town,
Kachchh,
Geographis, 2001
This map is part of an atlas of thematic city maps that
were prepared by Geographis for four earthquake hit
towns in Kachchh District, Gujarat, in 2001. The atlas
was the product of an exercise to document and
assess the earthquake's toll and was used to facilitate
long term reconstruction. Field surveys were carried
out to capture data for existing land use, the intensity
of damage & building height and databases were generated to supplement these maps.
134-135 Existing Land Use Plan, Tirupati
Town,
Andhra Pradesh
EPCDPM, 2003
EPCDPM prepared a state-of-the-art base map of
Tirupati town, Andhra Pradesh, combining aerial photographs, ISKONS & IRS-ID satellite images, topography
sheets (from the Survey if India), village revenue maps,
block maps and road maps. The map categorized land
uses into 14 predominant types with 25 subclassifications for a municipal area of 16 sq km. A computerized database of land use for over 500,000 land
parcels and their sub divisions was built using GIS software. This map was made for preparing a Statutory
Master Plan for Tirupati region and town.
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‘Mahiti Kosh,’ a GIS Based Village Level
Spatial Information System,
Geographis, 2004
This project dealt with developing a GIS based computerized programme that could generate analytical maps
and customized information useful to villagers and community based organizations. The system combines different kinds of information to create specialized maps
and allows users to query data to suit their individual
needs, like, census, livestock and economic activities,
sources of water, crop patterns, the availability of
schools, hospitals & community facilities, physical infrastructure, industrial locations, government plans, NGOs
& village stakeholders and land use.
138-139 Contour Survey Map, Ahmedabad,
EPCDPM Survey Unit, EPCDPM, 2006
This topographical survey map illustrates the pattern of
land contours for approximately 70 sq km of land flanking the River Sabarmati. The survey was done at a contour interval of 0.5 m. It was produced in order to better
assess low lying areas around the riverfront. The survey was conducted by a team of twelve personnel,
using sophisticated surveying techniques and total
station survey equipment. Its benchmark was the city's
height above mean sea level.
Land Use Map for Tsunami Affected
Cuddalore-Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu,
Geographis, 2006
The International City Managers' Association (ICMA)
appointed Geographis as a mapping consultant to prepare base maps and detailed land use maps for
Cuddalore and Nagapattinam, two tsunami affected
towns in Tamil Nadu, for which strategic redevelopment
plans are being drawn up. These maps are being used
to study current day development and infrastructure in
the towns, and to identify projects for detailed planning
and design. The maps extracted detailed information
from high resolution satellite images of the area,
delineating the position of roads, railways, rivers, bod-
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Index
AUDA Development Plan, Ahmedabad, EPC, 2000, Pgs
12-13
Eklavya School, Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, 2002: Pgs 60, 7273
Marine Drive Refurbishment, Mumbai, Competition Entry,
HCPDPM, 2004: Pgs 34, 44-45
Alang-Manar-Bharpara Sub Regional Plan, EPCDPM,
1999: Pgs 6-7
Entrepreneurship Development Institute, Ahmedabad,
HCPDPM, 1987: Pgs 60, 61-63
Mother Dairy, GCMMF, Gandhinagar, HCPDPM, 1994: Pgs
86, 92
Ahmedabad Management Association, Ahmedabad,
HCPDPM, 1997: Pgs 60, 68-71
Existing Land Use Plan, Tirupati Town, Andhra Pradesh,
EPCDPM, 2003: Pgs 132, 134-135
Museum of Pharmacology, SEZ Zydus Cadila Healthcare,
Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, Ongoing: Pgs 82, 83
Arvind Mills Garment Factory, Santej Village, Gujarat,
HCPDPM, Ongoing: Pgs 86, 93
Gujarat High Court, Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, 1998: Pgs 7881
Narotam Sekhsaria School of Biotechnology, Mumbai,
HCPDPM, Ongoing: Pgs 74, 75
Batanagar Township, Kolkata, HCPDPM, Ongoing: Pgs
108, 110-111
Handa Poolhouse, Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, 2004: Pgs 122,
123
P&O Township, Mundra, Kachchh, HCPDPM, 2005: Pgs
108, 109
Birla Dham Township, Kosamba, Gujarat, HCPDPM, 1997:
Pgs 108, 112-113
Indian Institute of Management, New Campus,
Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, Ongoing: Pgs 60, 64-67
Padra-Jambusar, Sub Regional Plan, Gujarat, EPCDPM,
2001: Pgs 6, 10-11
C.G. Road Redevelopment, Ahmedabad, EPC 1997: Pgs
46, 48-49
Indian Institute of Management, Underpass to New
Campus, Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, 2004: Pgs 50, 52-53
Parimal Underpass, Ahmedabad, Proposal, HCPDPM,
2006: Pgs 50-51
Urban Design and Development Plan for Koba Knowledge
City, GUDA, EPCDPM, Ongoing: Pgs 12, 20-21
Cadila Pharmaceuticals Corporate Headquarters, Bhat,
Gujarat, HCPDPM, 2000: Pgs 100, 101-103
Integrated Street Redevelopment Project, Ahmedabad,
HCPDPM, Ongoing: Pgs 46-47
Post-disaster Assessment in Anjar Town, Kachchh,
Geographis, 2001: Pgs 132-133
Vishwa Banga Shikhar, Kolkata, Competition Entry,
HCPDPM, 2005: Pgs 94, 98
Cadila R & D, Changodar, Gujarat, HCPDPM, 1998: Pgs
74, 76-77
Ismet-Bimal Residence, Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, 2003: Pgs
114-117
Rajkot Municipal Corporation Underpass, Rajkot,
HCPDPM, 2004: Pgs 50, 54-55
Wagh Bakri House, Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, 2006: Pgs 100,
104-105
Canna-Mukesh Residence, Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, 2005:
Pgs 114, 118-121
JMC House, Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, 1998: Pgs 94, 96
Redeveloping B.J. Park, Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, 1998: Pgs
56, 57
Walled City Revitalization Plan, Ahmedabad, EPC,
1997: Pgs 22, 23-25
Cardiac UNO, Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, 2005: Pgs 126,
128-129
Chennai Container Terminal Operations Centre, Chennai,
HCPDPM, 2005: Pgs 100, 106-107
City Centre for Ahmedabad, Proposal, HCPDPM, 2005:
Pgs 94, 95
Claris Lifesciences, Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, 2002: Pgs 86,
88-89
Contour survey map, Ahmedabad, EPCDPM Survey Unit,
EPCDPM, 2006: Pgs 132, 138-139
Core Emballage factory, Radu Village, Gujarat, HCPDPM,
1996: Pgs 86-87
Courtyard House, Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, 2004: Pgs 122,
125
Delhi Municipal Corporation Act, 1957 (Amendment) Bill
and New Building Byelaws for Delhi EPC, 2005: Pgs 30-31
JMC Projects India Ltd., Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, 2001:
Pgs 126, 130
Kachchh Ecology Fund, EPC, 2004: Pgs 6, 8-9
Kankaria Lakefront Redevelopment, Ahmedabad,
Proposal, HCPDPM, Ongoing: Pgs 34, 40-43
KHS Machinery, Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, Ongoing: Pgs 86,
90-91
Land use Map for Tsunami Affected CuddaloreNagapattinam, Tamil Nadu, Geographis, 2006: Pgs 132,
136
Structure Plan for TUDA Region and Master Plan for
Tirupati Town, Andhra Pradesh, EPCDPM, 2004: Pgs 12,
16-17
Suburban Townhouse, Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, 2005: Pgs
122, 124
Surana Jewellers Showroom, New Delhi, HCPDPM, 2003:
Pgs 126, 131
Surat Inner City Revitalization Plan, EPC, 1998: Pgs 22,
26-27
Town Planning Schemes, Ahmedabad, EPC & EPCDPM,
Ongoing: Pgs 12, 18-19
Town Planning Schemes, Bhuj, EPC, 2004: Pgs 22, 28-29
Reform of Gujarat's Development Regulation System, EPC,
2004: Pgs 30, 33
Refurbishing the Golconda-Qutb Shahi Tombs, Hyderabad,
Proposal, EPC, 2000: Pgs 56, 58-59
Sabarmati Riverfront Development, Ahmedabad, EPCHCPDPM, Ongoing: Pgs 34, 35-39
Safal Engineers and Associates, Ahmedabad, HCPDPM,
2004: Pgs 126, 127
Sarthik II, Ahmedabad, HCPDPM, 1998: Pgs 94, 97
Legal & Administrative Framework for Development
Regulation in Gujarat, EPC, 2006: Pgs 30, 32
Sarthik IV, 'Safal Mondeal', Proposal, Ahmedabad,
HCPDPM, 2005: Pgs 94, 99
“Mahiti Kosh”, a GIS based Village Level Spatial
Information System, Geographis, 2004: Pgs 132, 137
SMC Science Centre, Museum and Art Gallery, Surat,
HCPDPM, Ongoing: Pgs 82, 84-85
Manori-Gorai Development Plan, MMRDA, EPCDPM,
Ongoing: Pgs 12, 14
Development Plan for Gandhinagar, EPC, 2002: Pgs 12,
15
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Project coordination
Azhar Tyabji
Design and
Production
Jalp Lakhia
Design Assistance
Ashima Banker
Viral Patel
Photo Credits
Sachin Desai
Dinesh Mehta
We acknowledge the
contribution of other
photographers whose
work would be difficult
to attribute individually,
but who have contributed
their work generously
over the years.
Picture Research
Ranjan Gadhvi
Sanjeev Suman
Indian Institute of Management,
New Campus, Ahmedabad,
HCPDPM
Technical Support
Krunal Patel
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