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URBAN DESIGN

The way-finding within Taj Ganj and at all
gates has been done to make navigation a

meaningful and enjoyable experience,
the way-finding signage becomes a precursor to
creating varied perspectives of the city.

Agra, the local stone, up to a distance
of zero–vehicular 500 metres zone.
Then up to 1200 metres, the cobble
continues in granite for the restricted
access of motorized vehicles. A 2-way
carriageway of width 7.5 metres
flanked by footpaths and cycle paths 5
metres wide extends up to the cobbled
zone. A walk along this tree-lined path
that extends up to shops enroute and
is supplied with public conveniences,
seats, kiosks, control rooms etc.
Cobbling ensures that vehicular
traffic explicitly slows down; backed
by footpaths merging seamlessly with
the road but delineated by bollards,
the street is a walker’s paradise.
But allowing for multiple modes of
transport, each with its speed and its

own system of perception operating the use of Jaalis-perforated screens
simultaneously, the vision for this and the play of light, the lamps dot the
urban renewal program incorporates street, add a measure of romanticism
non-motorised ones as e-rickshaws and to its character even while placing the
even traditional horse carriages called monument centre stage.
‘Tongas’. The urban floor plane has A project by archohm consults.
been laid in the local and identifiable Pictures by Andre J Fanthome
Red Agra stone and ruby red granite.
The homogeneity of materials
makes the street and its furniture-
lamp posts, bollards, benches and the
likes provide a cognitive setting to the
wondrous monument whose second
name is harmony. The lamp post is a
sculptural element made in the same
stone as the rest of the street furniture
— incorporating the proportions of the
framing minarets of the Taj and the
profile of its graceful dome. Through

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