Planning concept of new delhi

1. PLANNING CONCEPT OF NEW DELHI

2. Main Outline:
 Introduction.
 History
 Delhi vs New Delhi.
 Planning & Designing of New Delhi
 Main Architectural Buildings.

3. Introduction:
 New Delhi is the capital and seat of
government of India. It is also a municipality
and district in Delhi.
 The foundation stone of the city was laid
by George V, Emperor of India during the Delhi
Durbar of 1911.
 It was designed by British architects, Sir Edwin
Lutyens and Sir Herbert Baker.
 Construction really began after World War I
and was completed by 1931.

4. History:
 Calcutta (now Kolkata) was the capital of India
during the British Raj until December 1911.
 The land for building the new city of Delhi was
acquired under the Land Acquisition Act 1894.
 Large parts of New Delhi were planned
by Edwin Lutyens, and Herbert Baker, both
leading 20th-century British architects.
 The contract was given to Sobha Singh (later
Sir Sobha Singh) ,he was a civil contractor and
a prominent builder of Lutyens' Delhi and real
estate owner of Delhi.

5. Differentiate:
Delhi New Delhi
 Delhi is large
metropolitan city which
has 11 districts.
 Old Delhi’s narrow,
unhygienic and congested
by-lanes.

 New Delhi is the area of
Delhi .It is the capital of
Delhi, as well as India.
 Excellent metro rail and
road network,Wide roads,
sky-rocketing buildings,
stunning infrastructures
and great flyovers .

8. Planning & Designing of New Delhi

9. Road Network:
 Edwin Lutyens had initially designed new
delhi with all the street crossing at right
angles.
 The road network consisted of diagonals
and radials shape and at 30 degree or 60
degree angles to the main axis,which
forming triangles and hexagones.
 The design of road network was capable of
accommodating 6000 vehicles.

13. Land use Plan of New Delhi:
Gov Complex
Bunglow Zone
Commercial

14. Main Architectural Buildings:
 Rashtrapati Bhavan
 Parliament House.
 Connaught Place.
 Lodhi Garden.
 Jantar Mantar.
 India Gate

15. Rashtrapati Bhavan:
 The Rashtrapati Bhavan "Presidential Residence"is the
official home of the President of India, located in New
Delhi, India.
 Designed by Edwin Lutyens .Construction started in
1912 and Completed in 1929.
 Having 340-rooms in main building that includes
president's official residence, halls, guest rooms and
offices.
 The area is about 130-hectare (320 acre) President
Estate that additionally includes huge presidential
gardens, large open spaces, residences of bodyguards
and staff, stables, other offices and utilities within its
perimeter walls.
 In terms of area, it was the largest residence of a head
of state in the world until the Presidential Complex of

16.  Consisting of four floors and
340 rooms, with a floor area
of 200,000 square feet
(19,000 m2), it was built
using 700 million bricks and
3,000,000 cu ft (85,000 m3) of
stone with little steel.
 The layout plan of the
building is designed around a
massive square with
multiple courtyards and open
inner areas within.

18. Parliament House
 Originally called the House of Parliament, it was
designed by the British architect Edwin
Lutyens and Herbert Baker in 1912-1913 and
construction began in 1921.
 The shape is circular, separate halls were
constructed for the sessions of the State
Council, and the Central Legislative Assembly.
 The building is surrounded by large gardens
and the perimeter is fenced off by sandstone
railings (jali).

19. The dome is 98 ft. (29.87 metres) in
diameter and is believed that it is one
of the most magnificent domes in the
world.

20. Connaught Place:
 Connaught Place is one of the largest financial,
commercial and business centres in New Delhi,
India. It is often abbreviated to CP .It was
developed as a showpiece of Lutyens'
Delhi with a prominent Central Business
District.
 Construction work began in 1929 and was
completed in 1933. The Inner Circle of
Connaught Place was renamed Rajiv Chowk
while the Outer Circle became Indira Chowk.

21. Connaught Place had only two floors, which
made almost a complete circle intended to
commercial establishments on the ground
with residential space on the first floor. The
circle was eventually designed with two
concentric circles, creating an Inner Circle,
Middle Circle and the Outer Circle with seven
roads radiating from a circular central park.

22. Lodhi Gardens:
 Lodhi Garden is a city park situated in New
Delhi, India. Spread over 90 acres
(360,000 m2),
 It contains, Mohammed Shah's Tomb, Tomb
of Sikandar Lodi, Shisha Gumbad and Bara
Gumbad,architectural works of the 15th
century by Lodhis.The site is now protected
by the Archaeological Survey of India (ASI).
 Lodhi Gardens is an important place of
preservation.

23. Jantar Mantar:
 The Jantar Mantar is located in the modern city
of New Delhi. It consists of 3
architectural astronomy instruments.
 The Jantar Mantar is an equinoctial sundial,
consisting a gigantic triangular gnomon with
the hypotenuse parallel to the Earth's axis. On
either side of the gnomon is a quadrant of a
circle, parallel to the plane of the equator.
 The primary purpose of the observatory was to
compile astronomical tables, and to predict the
times and movements of
the sun, moon and planets.

24.  The words jantar and mantar means
calculation instrument.
 It was built by Maharaja Jai Singh,(king) of
Jaipur.
 Built in 1724.

26. India Gate:
 The India Gate, (originally called the All India War
Memorial), is a war memorial located astride
the Rajpath, on the eastern edge of the ‘ceremonial
axis’ of New Delhi, formerly called Kingsway.
 India gate is a memorial to 82,000 soldiers of the
undivided Indian Army who died in the period 1914–
21 in the First World War.
 13,300 servicemen's names, including some soldiers
and officers from the United Kingdom, are inscribed on
the gate.
 The India Gate, even though a war memorial, evokes
the architectural style of the triumphal arch like
the Arch of Constantine, outside the Colosseum in
Rome, It was designed by SirEdwin Lutyens.

27.  The foundation stone of the All-India War
Memorial was laid on 10 February 1921, at
4:30 PM,
 The King said "On this spot, in the central
vista of the Capital of India, there will stand
a Memorial Archway, designed to keep" in
the thoughts of future generations "the
glorious sacrifice of the officers and men of
the Indian Army who fought and fell".

28.  The 42-metre tall India Gate, stands on a
low base of red Bharatpur stone and rises in
stages to a huge moulding. The shallow
domed bowl at the top was intended to be
filled with burning oil on anniversaries but
this is rarely done. The India Gate hexagon
complex, with a diameter of about 625
metres, covers approximately 306,000 m² in
area

30. Canopy
 About 150 metres East of the
India Gate war memorial, at a
junction of six roads, is a 73-
foot cupola,. Lutyens used
four Delhi Order columns to
support the domed canopy
and its chhajja. Under the
canopy having the Royal Coat
of Arms.

31. Amar Jawan Jyoti
 Amar Jawan Jyoti, or the flame of the
immortal soldier, is a structure
consisting of black marble plinth, with
reversed L1A1 Self-loading rifle, capped
by war helmet, bound by four urns, each
with the permanent light (jyoti) from
(CNG) flames, erected under the India
Gate to commemorate Indian soldiers
killed in the defence of their country.
 It was inaugurated by the then Prime
Minister Indira Gandhi on 27 January
1979, the 23rd Republic Day. Since the
installation of the Amar Jawan Jyoti, in
1972, it has served as India's Tomb of
the Unknown Soldier.

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