- Chandigarh is a city and a union territory of India that serves as the capital of the Indian states of Punjab and Haryana.
- Chandigarh is a first planned city of India based on grid design.
- Planned by the famous French architect Le Corbusier, who is invited by India’s Prime Minister Jawharlal Nehru in 1950.
- Each of his designs are very much different from one another.
- He planned the city on principles of light, space and greenery.
- Le Corbusier divided the city into different Sectors.
- Each sector or the neighboured unit, is quite similar to the traditional Indian 'mohalla' and measures 800 meters by 1200 meters, covering 250 acres of area.
Residence design in Chandigarh
- Le Corbusier believed in creating harmony by using the design principle of symmetry.
- He designed clusters of bungalows together sharing a common playground for kids and they also had a garden of their own, apartments for middle class families where a couple of apartments could share a common garden or playground.
- The design of the residences is symmetrical.
- Residences in a cluster look similar from the exterior but they have different planning as per the user’s requirement.
- The advantage of emphasizing on symmetry makes the environment look balanced and organized.
The Secretariat
- The Secretariat is a very large building and a 254 meters long and 42 meters high.
- The Ministries are grouped in a central pavilion, Block 4, one of the six ministerial blocks, each separated from the next by a vertical expansion joint extending the full height of the building.
Parliament design in Chandigarh
- The Parliament or Assembly was designed as a large box with the entrance portico on one side, concrete piers on the other, and a repetitive pattern on the façade.
- The Assembly chamber, in the form of a hyperbolic shell, is surrounded by ceremonial space.
- The hyperbolic shell is only 15 cm thick, which helped in reducing the cost and weight of the structure.
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