Abstract:
The newly formed state of Telangana is predominantly an urban state with 45% of its population in urban areas. With around 142 urban local bodies facing challenges in urban policy and implementation on varying degrees, the government of Telangana plans to set up an Urban Centre of Excellence, which would act as an urban think tank and a research Centre to deal with urban challenges and house best practices, not only in India but across Asia.
The Telangana State Urban Centre of Excellence is going to be an integrated development of mixed-use typology with the character between architecture- built form and natural geographic feature. A plan to conceive a research Centre, that would host prototype solutions for various urban issues, which celebrates and leverages the natural topography of the site- a blend of the 350-million-year-old Deccan plateau boulders and plain cultivated fields, with the altitude between the highest and the lowest point being approximately 20m.
Thus, the intent is to set up an Urban Centre of Excellence in a sprawling campus of 45 acres, abutting Outer Ring Road. While the campus with all its facilities will be planned in 25 acres, the remaining extent of 20 acres would be kept as green space/walking track/golf/future requirements. One of its kind, the Telangana State Urban Centre of Excellence (TSUCE) will act as a national level think tank on urban issues and will have a multitude of components. The scope of work for this thesis includes the development of the master plan for the 45-acre site, and architectural design and detail of the selected individual zones of Workstations and
Research Labs.
