Abstract:
When a large scale urban spectacle is held in a city, the city adapts and remolds itself to fulfill
the needs of the event. Various additions are made to the city fabric. After the event is over, the
people leave but these temporary and permanent structures stay back in the city. They get used
in different ways by the city and at times is abandoned.
Similar situation happened in Delhi, during Common Wealth Games (CWG) in year 2010. It was
the largest international multi-sport event to be staged in Delhi and India.
Thus many structures and infrastructure were added to the city, to support the games. Some of
the additions to the fabric of city include
· A four-lane flyway, Barapullah elevated road, constructed to reduced travelling time to six
minutes.
· To support mass transport, nine corridors were constructed as High Capacity Bus Systems
· The Delhi Metro was expanded. The metro has extended to Gurgaon and the Noida area.
· Indira Gandhi International Airport was modernized, expanded, and upgraded. The airport
was connected to the city via a six-lane expressway (Delhi–Gurgaon Expressway) and Delhi
Airport Metro Express line.
· New venues were built and old were renovated.
Area of concern
The thesis talks about the infrastructure created during this spectacle in the city. During the
games an ad-hoc addition was made over barapullah drain, named barapullah elevated road, a
four-lane flyway of 4.5 km length, linking the Games Village to the Jawaharlal Nehru Stadium.
The addition of this infrastructure led to issues like creation of junk spaces, residual spaces and
spatial and pyhsical fragmentation in city.
Thesis Intent
The thesis will be dealing with issue of creation of junk spaces, residual spaces and spatial and
physical fragmentation caused by the Elevated barapullah link, and to retrofit this ad-hoc object
into city system through urban design.
