Commercial Complex
Sonipat | Public Building | Architecture
The design prioritizes intuitive wayfinding through enhanced spatial legibility and visual porosity. Multi-level voids ensure clear orientation, allowing users to effortlessly identify key touchpoints. Strategic integration with commercial zones optimizes the user journey, fostering a synergistic environment that drives footfall and maximizes revenue potential.
Arriving passengers are provided direct terminal access to facilitate efficient inter-station transfers. Conversely, departing or non-arrival transit traffic is routed through the commercial complex to maximize retail engagement. The primary commercial entrance is strategically positioned along the highway frontage for high visibility. To address operational requirements, the site incorporates dedicated surface parking for four buses and private vehicles, ensuring rapid accessibility for commercial patrons. This is supplemented by an expansive basement carpark accessed via a dedicated ramp. The site layout further distinguishes between transit and hospitality functions by providing independent drop-off zones for the passenger terminal and the multiplex/banquet facility.
The architectural strategy prioritizes high-density utilization of the ground and lower-ground levels to maximize commercial footprint. The primary facade is engineered as a high-visibility landmark to capture transit traffic from the national highway, incentivizing commuters to exit the flyover and enter the service lane. To ensure operational efficiency, the site incorporates independent access points for urban and highway traffic, effectively segregating local and transit flows. Given the existing dense vegetation along the perimeter, the design emphasizes vertical prominence and strategic signage to maintain long-range visibility from the approach roads.
The entrance features a centralized concourse facilitating immediate access to ticketing and essential services. To ensure fluid traffic management, arrival and departure flows are strictly segregated, with primary circulation corridors maintaining a minimum width of 6 meters. The terminal landscape integrates extensive green zones to provide pedestrian relief and breakout spaces.
Operational efficiency is achieved through the systematic segregation of transit modes and boarding activities. The facility incorporates a secure perimeter with integrated access control and screening checkpoints. Intercity bus movement follows an intuitive anti-clockwise circulation pattern aligned with left-side entry and exit points. Furthermore, the implementation of angular loading bays optimizes the site footprint while providing passengers with direct, unobstructed access to vehicle entry points.
The waiting and platform areas feature a dramatic double-height roof structure that offers panoramic views of the overhead retail frontages. A high-performance transparent facade on the eastern commercial elevation is punctuated by strategic cut-outs to harvest natural daylight. Peripheral light slits are integrated to provide diffused illumination while mitigating direct solar gain. Internally, two expansive vertical light wells facilitate natural light penetration across all floors and enhance diagonal sightlines toward storefronts.Sustainability is central to the design, utilizing light-toned external finishes with high solar reflectance to minimize heat absorption. The facility incorporates a comprehensive rainwater harvesting system to recharge the local water table. Operational efficiency is further enhanced by a dual-piping system that utilizes treated water from the on-site STP for flushing. Renewable energy is integrated through a terrace-mounted photovoltaic array, designed to provide dedicated solar power for terminal operations.
Light Fixtures – LED light fixture has been provided for terminal and external lighting.
Natural lighting – 100% day lit spaces has been provided in design to minimize use of electrical lighting in day time. Light well through central courtyard lits the circulation area at day time. Outer wall has light slits for indirect light intake minimizing heat intake.
Apart from mandatory facilities in the bus stand certain other facilities like Snacks and Juices stall etc. are planned. Few shops are provisioned on the Ground floor that would primarily cater to the basic requirements of the passengers like snacks and drinks stall. On the first floor apart from the administrative rooms all the commercial activities are
provided in the form of shops of varying sizes. Bare shell of
these rooms is provisioned for and the finishing in terms of
floor finish, wall cladding etc. shall be done as per the end
user or the retailer to whom the shop would be allotted or
leased out. Each shop is provisioned with rolling shutter for
security reasons. Windows for natural ventilation in UPVC
finished frames with fixed glass and aluminium grills
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