YEIDA | Sports City | 5000 acre township

[rakshit gowda]

Originally Posted by Master of Disguise

Achcha...do let me know if you plan to haha

Sure boss.... (rushes to the bank to get loan)

[drad]

Originally Posted by OldKool

its a very old ad...jaypee has already won this bid!!

Really! How is that possible? The closing date is 18/01/2011.

[OldKool]

Originally Posted by drad

Really! How is that possible? The closing date is 18/01/2011.

well financial closing for the jaypee project has still not been achieved!

[Master of Disguise]

Naah its different from the JayPee sports city brother....Noida sports city will be different from it....it will be in partnership with Noida authority and the private player

[sarkarinaukris]

i like JayPee sports city very much. great place to walk around

[Master of Disguise]

Gurrrr

[sarkarinaukris]

JP is one the best real estate company

[pupym]

Where is this JP located?

[josephantony]

Welcome to SSC-I pupym!

[IndiansUnite]

SOM Architects are working on the Master Plan of Jaypee City:

Jaypee City Master Plan
Delhi, India



Jaypee City will be located within the National Capital Region of India, along the new Yamuna expressway, on 2,000 hectares of land. It will house over 800,000 residents, accommodate a daytime population of more than 2 million people and be anchored by world-class tourist attractions, including a Formula One Circuit and professional league Cricket stadium. The project will be divided into ten districts, each with its own unique character. A series of neighborhoods will be created that offer a choice of high, medium and low-density housing, as well as schools, parks, retail and other community facilities, including hospitals, libraries and daycares.

Jaypee City will be organized along a 15-kilometer boulevard that contains active parks, lakes, and other public amenities. Jaypee Park Boulevard will also incorporate transit, recreational areas and a storm water management system. New commerce centers will be directly accessible by regional and local transit.

The complex, multi-faceted sustainability plan for Jaypee City addresses environmental, social and economic goals, and includes strategies for landscape, and improved micro climate, balanced water cycles, building massing and orientation, potable water, storm water drainage, reduced energy dependence and waste reduction.

and WSP group is assisting with the engineering consultancy services:

WSP in India and the UK supported masterplanner SOM with high-level international advice to develop a final strategy that delivers an integrated city and focuses on:

• Creating a modern and authentic city with supporting infrastructure for the next 100 years
• Improving quality of life – pedestrian thermal comfort, microclimate, urban heat island response and social sustainability
• Planning walkable spaces – good urban design, with streets designed at a human scale, and transport integrated and managed effectively
• Enabling environmentally sound and effective use of resources – materials, water supply and treatment, energy, waste recovery
• Attracting economic activity to the region.

WSP used lifecycle carbon analysis to develop energy strategies that replaced high diesel use with effective demand-side management and cleaner gas infrastructure supported by renewable energy technologies.

The street network was designed to create a new urban public realm. Using our traffic modelling and urban design expertise, the masterplan was developed to create streets and a public realm where vehicles are permitted, but which are designed as ”places” so that pedestrians and cyclists feel welcome and comfortable.

WSP’s CITIMETRIX indicator tool quantified the progress made towards creating a sustainable development, comparing it with local and international best practice. It summarised the wide range of sustainability aspects into a manageable overview to enable the client to make informed investment decisions.

[patentneer]

2 Million - Bole to ?

If plan is 2 mil; actual may be 2.5 to 3 re: 'support/assistant residential staff' (read naukar -chakar, chaiwallah, bai, rickshaw, press-wallah, etc.) All good, the mini-render above looks real, all fast turn around mid-size buildings and blocks, + the usual 'plotted developments' (quick money fast, in advance).

Contact 4 updates :

• Paul Toyne Group Head of Sustainability Paul.Toyne @wspgroup.com +44 (0)20 7406 7016

- from wsp site.

[IndiansUnite]

^ 2 million is the number of people expected to be living/working in the city when it's fully developed. The number of residents however will be 800,000. These numbers are just rudimentary and obviously subject to change. The render itself is a placeholder one - to give an idea about the basic layout.

[IndiansUnite]

Map of Sports City at the BIC - Click on it to view super large

Copyright asif khan saifi

[IndiansUnite]

Sports city is coming up at a very brisk pace. They've started levelling farm lands for new roads and site prep is also underway for the new cricket stadium.

Birds-eye view looking south



let's start out with a recent article about the chief architect - Peter Ellis and the evolution of the city's design:

Passage to India

India and China have some of the biggest, most overcrowded cities in the world. Peter Ellis says the solution is to build a lot more of them.

The 64-year-old architect and urban planner has spent the past three years drawing up plans to turn 5,000 acres of farmland outside New Delhi—roughly the size of downtown Chicago from the South Loop to Lincoln Park—into a thriving satellite city of 1 million people. Picture plopping the population of Dallas onto the cornfields of Kane County and you get the idea.



Mr. Ellis is counting on more city-planning commissions as the Indian and Chinese economies continue to modernize and their people leave the countryside to seek a better life in the city—a megatrend that threatens to overwhelm existing urban centers.

“I sum it up by saying that 2000 B.C. meets the 22nd century, and that's exactly what's going on,” he says. “You have a way of life that hasn't changed in 3,000 years that is instantly jumping into the global economy of the 21st century with nothing in between.”

It's the opportunity of a lifetime for Mr. Ellis, who worked 32 years at Skidmore Owings & Merrill LLP before starting his own firm focusing solely on city design, Chicago-based Peter Ellis New Cities Ltd., in 2010.

Location:

- ignore the wrong city boundaries shown

He has spent most of his career in architecture designing both buildings and massive urban spaces—but admits to having a preference for city planning, formed during his teenage years, when his family lived in Greece. He bicycled and hitchhiked around Europe, developing an admiration for the scale and design of the continent's great cities. Later, as an architecture student at Cornell University, he designed a hypothetical city outside Ithaca, N.Y., for his thesis.

“I was always interested in the whole,” he says. “A lot of people try to do both” buildings and urban design, but Mr. Ellis is one of the few who succeed, says Thomas Kerwin, principal at Chicago-based BKL Architecture LLC and former SOM managing partner.


Rice paddies and wheat fields provided Peter Ellis with a blank canvas to design Jaypee Sports City


Now, Mr. Ellis has positioned himself to capitalize on the surging demand for city designers as developing nations urbanize rapidly. The United Nations estimates that India will add another 497 million people to its urban population over the next four decades—more than a million a month—and the country's already bulging cities are woefully underequipped to absorb the influx.
“They're exploding,” says Eugenie Birch, a professor of planning at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Design. “It's going to be massive.”
Indian officials want to draw a million migrants to Jaypee Sports City, a private development between New Delhi and Agra, currently with streets, parks, sewers and other infrastructure—but no people yet. Developed by Jaypee Group, an Indian construction and engineering firm that built the toll road that runs though the site, the city is projected to fill up within 30 years, possibly half that depending on the Indian economy.


'A LITTLE FOREBODING'

Jaypee hired Mr. Ellis to design the city in 2008, when he was still at SOM. He first walked the site during a dust storm. “My first impression was of a dead, flat, featureless site with howling winds and dust in my face,” he recalls. “It was a little foreboding.”


Construction of the project's marketing center, pictured in December. Marketing of homes in the city is under way, but the first residents are not expected to move in for two years.

Until recently, most urban planners have spent their careers working in existing cities, drawing up blueprints for future development or, if they are lucky, redesigning whole neighborhoods. But opportunities to work on a totally blank canvas have been rare for much of the last century, with just a few examples of whole cites built from scratch, like Brazil's capital, Brasilia, in the 1950s.


The marketing center will sit next to a café along the city's main boulevard

That is changing quickly, and not just in India and China. Saudi Arabia has launched King Abdullah Economic City, a planned city of 2 million on the Red Sea coast, while Songdo City, a city of more than 300,000 residents and workers, is under construction on the coast of South Korea.

“It could be terrifying, but when you really think that you have a chance to create a total environment and you could really create a beautiful place for people to live, it's a great thrill,” Mr. Ellis says. Instead of just discussing style and design, Mr. Ellis was the only architect Jaypee interviewed who talked about “first principles”—how, for instance, he would plan the city to account for India's climate and culture, Jaypee Group Founder and Chairman Jaiprakash Gaur says in an emailed statement.


The city's downtown commercial district, shown here, will include about 85 acres of commercial space


Yet like every architect, Mr. Ellis has had to make compromises. He proposed a tight street grid, like Chicago's, hoping it would foster a close connection with the street that is standard in most Western cities. But Indians turn their back to the streets, which are considered dangerous places, teeming with beggars, criminals and garbage. Jaypee wanted huge city blocks enclosing green space off limits to the public—basically a collection of large gated communities. Mr. Ellis and his client eventually met halfway, agreeing to smaller blocks—although still about twice as large as Chicago's—with interior park-like spaces that are open to the public during the day but closed at night.

“I fought it bitterly,” he says. “In the end I made my peace with it, and in the end it was OK.” Attempts to reach a Jaypee executive for comment were unsuccessful.


High-end housing will rise next to the city's golf course


Every city needs an economic engine, and the government has created one for Jaypee by forming special zones nearby to attract technology companies and educational institutions. Sports will offer another boost, with a Formula One racetrack already open in the city's center, a 100,000-seat cricket stadium and a world-class golf course.

Jaypee aims to attract well-paid professionals who can afford to buy condos in the city, with the first move-ins expected in a couple of years. Though the current plan includes some rental housing, poorer people will likely settle in villages outside the city limits, Mr. Ellis says.

Starting from scratch has its advantages, offering an opportunity to design a state-of-the-art water and sewage treatment system, for instance. Instead of having one central plant, Jaypee will have 16 utility districts that will recycle wastewater, processing so-called gray water—water from sinks and bathtubs—and returning it to homes for uses other than drinking. Solid waste will be processed into methane gas for power generation, reducing electricity consumption by an estimated 15 percent.
“I always say, every time you flush the toilet, the lights get brighter,” Mr. Ellis quips.

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Now onto the project design and renders. Here's a map from Jaypee's website. Jaypee has already started selling apartments and plots in Districts 2,4,5.

Click to view large



Nov 2011 GE view:


labelled:

- note that they've planned and left out space for the Eastern Peripheral Expressway. Also, YEIDA city's ring road is taking shape on the south-east of the site.

Site Prep at the Cricket Stadium:


Proposed render:



Site prep underway at the Villa District:


Layout with land use:



The central Boulevard that will snake through the city:











Boulevard Site Prep:




Peter Ellis has a whole website dedicated towards the project. Check it out for detailed designs --> Clicky

few renders:















As mentioned above, Jaypee has already started selling apartments and plots in Districts 2,4,5. Check their website to see all the projects they've launched within the city. Note that this city has no silly hurdles or PILs filed against it and will be built at it's own pace, determined by the market.

[deekshith]

Appa!! this is one monstrous post and great for your effort IU

[SSCaddict]

AWESOME!

[murlee]

Terrific project.. Hope many more such projects come up all over India!

[Master of Disguise]

yeah...I am happy to be associated with JayPee n their projects....and its doing real well...Nice big project...Will be there to take updates on Jaypee stadium..

[InfraNerd]

Their website says it is 2500 acres city. When did it become 5000 acres? Also, it is hard to believe it will house about million people, A MILLION freaking people, as mentioned in Ellis' website. Quite amazing if that is what it aims to achieve.

[karkal]

Only kalmadiji has the sohistication and experience to handle the scale of this project. I'm sure he's going to be made chairman of this sports city.