Vastral Junction is a prominent node at Ahmedabad’s SP Ring Road, catering to multiple commercial and retail activities. An overhead metro line cuts across the Ring Road and the Vastral metro station is also located at this node. However, the 21 m wide road caters to high speed vehicular traffic raising critical concerns for crossing pedestrians. The junction also lacks facilities for the metro station’s pedestrian traffic. Consequently, AUDA appointed HCP to design a pedestrian bridge that provides connectivity on all four sides of the crossroad and to the metro station.
Providing complete pedestrian connectivity for a crossroad requires a minimum of 4 bridges, accessible from each side of the intersecting roads. HCP proposed a single, circular overhead bridge that elegantly links all sides of the crossroad and is accessible via lifts, staircases and escalators. Elevated at 7 m from the ground with a 4.2 m wide walkway, the bridge also provides a 45 m long walkway to the metro station. The entire bridge is proposed as a metal structure to ensure its quick construction.
The circular pedestrian bridge is not only an elegant solution to crude overhead crossings but also an urban element of visual identity and public space.
Vastral, Gujarat
Start Year: 2018
End Year: 2022
Vastral Junction is a prominent node at Ahmedabad’s SP Ring Road, catering to multiple commercial and retail activities. An overhead metro line cuts across the Ring Road and the Vastral metro station is also located at this node. However, the 21 m wide road caters to high speed vehicular traffic raising critical concerns for crossing pedestrians. The junction also lacks facilities for the metro station’s pedestrian traffic. Consequently, AUDA appointed HCP to design a pedestrian bridge that provides connectivity on all four sides of the crossroad and to the metro station.
Providing complete pedestrian connectivity for a crossroad requires a minimum of 4 bridges, accessible from each side of the intersecting roads. HCP proposed a single, circular overhead bridge that elegantly links all sides of the crossroad and is accessible via lifts, staircases and escalators. Elevated at 7 m from the ground with a 4.2 m wide walkway, the bridge also provides a 45 m long walkway to the metro station. The entire bridge is proposed as a metal structure to ensure its quick construction.
The circular pedestrian bridge is not only an elegant solution to crude overhead crossings but also an urban element of visual identity and public space.