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Bharat Bhargava   bharatbhargava@gmail.com
GDPD | Product Design
Stainless Steel Bus Shelter
Sponsor: Jindal Architecture Ltd., New Delhi
Guide: Shashank Mehta
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Keywords
Urban design
User centric design
Structures
Stainless steel bus shelters
The project brief was to design a low cost bus shelter completely fabricated in stainless steel suitable to be installed in any city in the country. A few cities such as New Delhi, Faridabad, Noida, Gurgaon, Mumbai, and Ahmedabad were selected as part of a survey, which included case studies of existing bus shelters and how they are used, an analysis of the materials used, overall structure and design.
I started the project with an in depth contextual study to defend the design in any environment with varying climatic conditions. With Jindal Architecture Ltd., New Delhi, chosen as my sponsor, the material was the main limitation of the design. It had set up a new division, called ‘ARC,’ which dealt with the application of stainless steel in architecture, building and construction, and urban development. The company wanted to promote stainless steel, and hence, I needed to thoroughly understand the material, its strengths, weaknesses, possible joineries, etc. I also, needed to learn the possibilities at the factory with existing technology so as to design something wherein the fabrication process was also easy and cheap.
All the study, when analyzed, resulted in a number of design considerations, which were the basis for conceptualization. Initial form exploration led to finalizing a basic framework to work within. After that, I detailed individual components such as roofing, railing, and seating. The integration of all these components with the final form was critical and I carefully worked out joineries for the same so as to have minimum amount of welding on the visible outer surface. Structural strength was also a critical subject and involved deciding the pipe section sizes in relation to the weight of the roof, etc. A 1:5 scale prototype was made in the factory as the final design.
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