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space for traffic, exclusively, and providing for multiple access means to and from the elevated concourse such as escalators, elevators and staircases. A crystallised design brief emerged in crafting the Skywalk – 380 meters long and 10.5 meters wide – creating a connection between the traffic rotary and the entrance gates of the temple compound with a provision of 12 escalators, 4 elevators and 8 staircases to allow devotees and users to embark and disembark from the Skywalk. The skywalk also relocates over 200 shops that are currently operating on the Rani Rashmoni Road. Designed as weather-proof, user-friendly cross section and sturdy, it integrates the walking concourse, shops, escalators and elevators with a provision to connect it to the railways footbridge as well, with separate lanes for motorised and non-motorised traffic. By adopting one of the oldest approaches in design, ‘form follows function’, and adding some critical ingredients to a contextually responsive design – dynamism, fluidity and most importantly, modularity – the Skywalk is conceived structurally as an extremely basic formation – a tube mounted on top of a platform supported on its many legs. The platform turns and adapts to the street it is laid over, the tube twists and turns in sync with it. Some of its key design elements are: Modularity The entire stretch is divided into modules of approximately 8 meters in length, each module is a complete unit in itself. Fluidity The form is seamless, along its entire length, its shape accentuating its curvilinear profile. Since a distance of 380 meters is available to create this experience, a pulsating wave pattern is made to create rhythm and enhance the visual and actual movement. Dynamism The MS support structure of the tube is superimposed with aluminum fins of varying lengths, reducing and increasing in a cyclic fashion, causing a wave formation when seen in continuity, conveying the dynamic nature of the tube. 30 Architecture Update March 2016
design consideration ACCESS TO THE SKYWALK The points of embarkment are on the PWD road, at the railway station and the Ramkrishna Paramhans Dev Road. Escalators, elevators and staircases service each of these points. The escalators flank a middle staircase for people reluctant to use those, elevators allow for convenience of movement for the old and the infirm as well as handicapped access. There are also plans for connecting the railway footbridge to the skywalk allowing for devotees using the Dakshineswar Railway Station directly from the railway platform level. There are further embarkment and disembarkment points at the other intersecting streets allowing for convenience of the local residents and shoppers. The temple gates at the end of the Skywalk have a set of 1 escalator, 1 elevator and 1 staircase on both the disembarkation and embarkation ends. All access points are treated as all-weather glass enclosures with adequate safety measures taken at design level. Traffic lanes at road level: The two-legged structure of the Skywalk enables for a 6 meters wide central lane, earmarked for motorised transport going in both directions, and 2 meters wide lanes on both peripheries for slow moving traffic like rickshaws and bicycles. A lane separator wall will separate the slow moving and fast lanes. GENERAL ARRANGEMENT OF PLATFORM STRUCTURE There are 2 distinct segments of the skywalk: the segment spanning Rani Rashmoni Road and the segment spanning across the traffic rotary denoted as obligatory span by KMDA. The structure across Rani Rashmoni Road segment is a simple two legged structure with simply supported platform in the middle and cantilevers on both sides. The central span is 6.3 meters and the cantilevers are 1.8 meters each. The vertical supports are a pair of 150x300 ISMC structural steel sections welded together. The platform is concrete deck over steel purlins of RHS 150x300. The structure across obligatory span is a central pier supported platform cantilevered on either side with the support being RHS Column 500x900. The platform is the same as the other segment. Tube mounted on top: A 10.5 meters wide tube at its base, it is 5 meters high and will be fabricated using RHS 75x100 members and Dakshineswar temple complex Architecture Update March 2016 31
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