Chandigarh Urban Lab Volumes I to V.
Here is a graphic representation of the next 5 Chandigarh Urban Labs – 5 sections, going North to South, studying the city and its transformations in the age of globalization. We plan to [...]
Articles by Vikram
“Chandigarh Master Plan 2031 Draft” is now published!
The long anticipated Chandigarh Master Plan 2031 Draft has just been published online by Chandigarh Administration. It is in the comment period right now [NO LONGER – edited], so please study [...]
Vikramāditya Prakāsh’s lecture on Deruralization-Chandigarh at Harvard, February 2013.
Vikramāditya Prakāsh’s presentation on the work of the Chandigarh Urban Lab at Harvard in February 2013 is now available online. Introduced by Rahul Mehrotra, Chair of Urban Design at the [...]
‘Heritage’ Furniture – a new line of urban furniture for Chandigarh.
The current focus of the international market on Chandigarh’s so-called heritage furniture has jeopordized the fundamental purpose of furniture: to be used, not idealized. The analysis of this [...]
Apni Mandis – activating Leisure Valley with farmers’ markets and food security.
With the failure of large grocery stores in globalizing Chandigarh, Apni Mandis that enable residents to buy fresh, locally (nearby) produced food directly from farmers have become very successful. [...]
Vikas Marg – a “Signature Street” for greater Chandigarh.
Chandigarh’s V2 were conceived in the master plan as high speed thoroughfares with commercial blocks on one side (north) and multi-level institutional buildings on the other (south). One of [...]
Sector 17 – Tower for north plaza and multilevel new economy parking solutions for the city center
As the commercial heart of the city, the vitality of Sector 17 is critical to the future of the city. Fortunately, Sector 17s vitality has hardly been threatened by all the peripheral [...]
Hybrid Housing – new typologies for a growing city.
Here are three new housing typologies, hybridizing the lessons learnt from the passive solar, naturally ventilated and daylit, modular, Modulor based, modernist Chandigarh ‘heritage’ [...]
Museum of Knowledge – bridging Le Corbusian heritage with security
The Chandigarh Urban Lab believes that whether the Governor’s Palace or the Museum of Knowledge is built, the most important aspect to completing the Capitol Complex is to restore civic access to [...]
CHART – Multimodal transportation solution for Greater Chandigarh
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