Nano City

Berkeley Group for Architecture and Planning Presents

GREENCITY
FLEXCITY
COMPLEXCITY

Principles, prototypes, proposals for the 21st century Indian metropolis

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'a New Urban Agenda

High Tech Indian Cities

Global Context

Regional Context

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

Satellite Image

Existing Conditions

Himalayan Foothills

Existing Trees

Site Mapping

Existing Villages

Generative Diagram

The Master Plan

A City Of High Density Nodes

IT DISTRICT

Information Technologies
The Promenade
Golf Course
Central Business District
Market Square
Amphitheater
Central Link Park

UNIVERSITY DISTRICT

University Campus
Cricket Stadium
Cultural Arts
AIRPORT DISTRICT
Convention Center
Hotels
Warehousing
Industry

BIO TECH DISTRICT

Medical Center
Eco Industry
Horse Race Track
Resort
Eco Park
Bio Technologies

A City Of Mixed Use Districts

A City Of Parks And Public Open Space

A City Of Comprehensive Transit

A City Of Flexible And Efficient Transportation

Water Resource Management

A Sustainable City

Distributed Waste, Water, and Energy Systems

Whole Systems Approach

It Takes A Village To Build A City

A City Of Equity: Land Banking & Implementation

A City With A Realistic Growth Plan

STAGE I: PHASE I
Mixed Use IT Neighborhood

Mixed Use Neighborhood As Gateway

Master Plan and Land Use

Water And Energy Strategies

Initial Phasing

Green Network

Green Neighborhood

Neighborhood Parks

IT Campus

Championship Golf Course

Diverse Housing Options

Residential Development

Toward a New Code for Nanocity

	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

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

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

Axonometric

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.

Site Guidelines- Section

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.

Site Guidelines - Plan

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.