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Nano City

Berkeley Group for Architecture and Planning Presents

GREENCITY
FLEXCITY
COMPLEXCITY
Nano City
Principles, prototypes, proposals for the 21st century Indian metropolis
Nano City
Nano City
The Design Expedition.

Nanocity Summer 2007 Team

Design Directors
Nezar AlSayyad and Susan Ubbelohde

Design Coordinator
Stefan Al

Architectural and Urban Designers
Stefan Al, H. Fernando Burga, Marina Christodoulides, Veronica De La Rosa, Kevin Young Lee, Nicolette Mastrangelo, William Ogle, Asa Prentice, Jeremy Steiner, and Elena Tomlinson

Production Assistants
Benjamin Moore, Kimberly Espresion, Benjamin Jenett, and Julia de Jesus

Modeling and Animation
Kevin Young Lee, Nicolette Mastrangelo, William Ogle, Asa Prentice, Gautam Rangan, and Matthew Stegmaier

Music
Sanjeev Brar and Robert Bray

India's New Urban Agenda
India'a New Urban Agenda
High Tech Indian Cities
High Tech Indian Cities
Global Context
Global Context
Regional Context
Regional Context
Scale Comparisons
Scale Comparisons

Master Plan Design Principles

GREENCITY
Uses context as opportunity, promotes a lush and shaded climate-sensitive environment, encourages the expansion of local natural systems, and advances ecologically intelligent and sustainable design

FLEXCITY
Creates an adaptable and evolving framework that is flexible over time, responds to changing needs, and adjusts to future uses and patterns of growth

COMPLEXCITY
Proposes a city of mixed use districts, encourages a dynamic sequence of neighborhoods and open spaces, defined unique nodes of density and character, and linked by efficient systems of transportation

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Satellite Image
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Existing Conditions
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Himalayan Foothills
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Existing Trees
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Site Mapping
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Existing Villages
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Generative Diagram
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The Master Plan
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A City Of High Density Nodes
A City Of Mixed Use Districts

IT DISTRICT

UNIVERSITY DISTRICT

BIO TECH DISTRICT

A City Of Mixed Use Districts
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A City Of Parks And Public Open Space
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A City Of Comprehensive Transit
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A City Of Flexible And Efficient Transportation

Water Resource Management

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A Sustainable City

Distributed Waste, Water, and Energy Systems

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Whole Systems Approach
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It Takes A Village To Build A City
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A City Of Equity: Land Banking & Implementation
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A City With A Realistic Growth Plan

STAGE I: PHASE I
Mixed Use IT Neighborhood

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Mixed Use Neighborhood As Gateway
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Master Plan and Land Use
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Water And Energy Strategies
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Initial Phasing
Green Network
Green Network
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Green Neighborhood
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Neighborhood Parks
IT Campus
IT Campus
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Championship Golf Course
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Diverse Housing Options
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Residential Development

Toward a New Code for Nanocity

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Goals

To determine the parameters by which development takes place in Nanocity. The Nanocity Code is the developer’s framework for construction, allowing him/her to make the design vision operative.

Recommendations

- The Nanocity Code should be composed of linked texts and images illustrating the design vision.

- The Nanocity Code should contain the following elements:

  • Land use Percentages:
  • Urban standards:
  • Thoroughfare/Transportation standards.
  • Open space and landscape standards.
  • Open space/urban design character standards
  • Landscape standards
  • Architectural standards
  • Definition of terms
  • Appendixes

Nanocity Code General Principles

The Natural Landscape

The Nanocity Code should:

- Allow the city to retain its natural infrastructure – Respond to climate, topography, & landscape

- Should Increase access to natural environment through interconnected network of green fingers, courtyard block parks and great parks.

- Conserve energy and CO2 emission through improved street connectedness, walk ability, bicycle and transit use.

- Encourage green building, techniques, as well as delighting technologies and sustainability

Measures

The Urban Landscape

The Nanocode should:

- Illustrate an Interdependent network of elements which suggest a sense of place:

eg. Thoroughfare type, building type, Frontage type, and urban furniture type

- Ensure transit oriented pedestrian friendly focus.

- Ensure the design of corridors which offer mixed use qualities adjacent to residential neighborhoods in coordination with land use.

- Growth strategies should encourage infill and redevelopment

Mixed-Use Podium - Mid Block

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The Mixed-Use Podium type 1s a versatile m1d-nse housing solution that can be adapted to provide a small number of large, high end apartments or condominiums, or as many as twenty smaller units - ideal starter apartments for the young and upwardly mobile - above a concrete podium of commercial space along the street and parking garage in the rear.

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The type is designed to be tallest at the street edge and shorter at the back. Each unit has its own balcony or private rooftop garden, there is also a shared green space on top of the podium for the residents' use.

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Each unit is designed to have light and air from at least two sides, and access is achieved without the use of a double loaded corridor. This housing type has no setback from the lot line.

Residential Type

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Regulations

Setbacks



Frontage



Heights
Access
Pedestrian
Vehicular
Orientation
Solar
Adjacency
Notes


Form Based CodeNanoCity Studio

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International School and University
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Commercial Corridor: The Promenade
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Invitation For Investment, Call For Collaboration
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