The Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar state highway connects the international airport in Ahmedabad to the capital city of Gandhinagar. The state highway, therefore, receives heavy traffic and is an important route for VIP movement. It intersects the SP Ring Road – an important road of Ahmedabad – at Rajasthan Circle, making the junction one of the busiest in the rapidly developing semi-urban precinct. In order to ensure safe and efficient flow of traffic at the junction, the Roads and Building (R&B) Department, Government of Gujarat, proposed a flyover along the highway. Â
R&B Flyover is designed as a twenty-seven meter wide extradosed bridge at this junction. The design of the flyover adopts a combination of prestressed and cable stayed bridge technology whereby both – a cable structure as well as prestressed concrete sections – work in conjunction. This enables the flyover to span a distance of 100 m over the busy junction – clearing the junction of any structural member and securing the space for a proposed underpass at this location.Â
Given the significant scope of commercial urban development in the precinct in near future, space under the flyover has been developed as a green and safe public space and parking. The design integrates services such as rainwater pipes and lighting fixtures within the structural members of the flyover. Along with this, carefully designed landscape strategies of plantation and re-plantation increase green cover under the span. Â
The R&B Flyover at Bhat Circle skillfully addresses the seemingly opposing binaries of aesthetics and function. It emulates HCP’s belief that solving problems rationally and with attention to detail is an aspect of aesthetics and not opposed to it. The project demonstrates that semi-urban infrastructure can be developed as an elegant solution to the pressing needs of our highways. Â
Ahmedabad
Start Year: 2019
The Ahmedabad-Gandhinagar state highway connects the international airport in Ahmedabad to the capital city of Gandhinagar. The state highway, therefore, receives heavy traffic and is an important route for VIP movement. It intersects the SP Ring Road – an important road of Ahmedabad – at Rajasthan Circle, making the junction one of the busiest in the rapidly developing semi-urban precinct. In order to ensure safe and efficient flow of traffic at the junction, the Roads and Building (R&B) Department, Government of Gujarat, proposed a flyover along the highway. Â
R&B Flyover is designed as a twenty-seven meter wide extradosed bridge at this junction. The design of the flyover adopts a combination of prestressed and cable stayed bridge technology whereby both – a cable structure as well as prestressed concrete sections – work in conjunction. This enables the flyover to span a distance of 100 m over the busy junction – clearing the junction of any structural member and securing the space for a proposed underpass at this location.Â
Given the significant scope of commercial urban development in the precinct in near future, space under the flyover has been developed as a green and safe public space and parking. The design integrates services such as rainwater pipes and lighting fixtures within the structural members of the flyover. Along with this, carefully designed landscape strategies of plantation and re-plantation increase green cover under the span. Â
The R&B Flyover at Bhat Circle skillfully addresses the seemingly opposing binaries of aesthetics and function. It emulates HCP’s belief that solving problems rationally and with attention to detail is an aspect of aesthetics and not opposed to it. The project demonstrates that semi-urban infrastructure can be developed as an elegant solution to the pressing needs of our highways. Â