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Janakpuri
District Centre
New Delhi, India
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The
District Centre at Janakpuri developed on a 35 acre site serves as an important
shopping centre catering to the needs of a large residential population
of the area. Simultaneously providing for social, cultural, and recreational
requirements through the provision of cinemas, a meeting hall, library cultural
centre and
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The graceful
colonnaded arcade and the landscaped central garden of Connaught Place
is an image of New Delhi that is easily identifiable. In the creation
of a major new commercial centre in West Delhi this
image served as a point of reference and thus the proposed shopping centre
at Janakpuri has a handsome double height colonnade which defines and
ties together all shopping spaces. This
in turn extends visually and relates to the landscaped courts and gardens
of the District Centre.
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Another
major preoccupation in the creation of the District Centre has been the
need to provide a strong framework of order that would not in any way restrict
the multitude of signs, lights and fixtures that define the expression of
exuberance in all existing commercial centres within the city. Specific
spaces have been defined for the erection of signs and hoardings, and in
order to be able to camouflage the multitude of fixtures such as air coolers,
air conditioners, etc. a system of pre-cast concrete louvers has been proposed.
These louvers are spaced wide enough to allow light and air to penetrate
through, but from a distance, they still read as a screen which in turn
forms part of the standard facade and serves as a unifying element. |
