Western Central Railways (WCR) with its headquarters at Jabalpur intends to redevelop its railway station with organized traffic circulation and creative modern facade. Through this initiative an attempt is made to elevate the user experience in terms of comfort, efficiency, and facilities.

We believe a Railway station represents its city to the unknown people who have got no idea about the city, therefore we tried to make this design a perfect blend of contemporary elements and local Art and architecture of Jabalpur city. After having been through the history of Jabalpur we decided to take its Gond Art for the front facade of the main station building which is a metal screen with perforations and the Gond art is been created by playing with the density of these perforations on the screen.

'Function always comes first' and when it is about redeveloping a railway station the external vehicular circulation with the pedestrian movement becomes a very crucial part of the design. Our aim was to develop a seamless movement of the vehicles. We have segregated the movement pattern of all the available means of circulation starting from E-Rikshaw to a Bus. Tabletop crossings were part of the pedestrian movements connecting all the drop off spots to the Entry/ Exit of the station.

we took the following measures to deal with the movements of vehicle and pedestrian:
a. Organized and designated vehicular movement pattern for City Bus, Auto, Taxi,
Private Vehicles (2 & 4 wheelers) & VIP vehicles etc.
b. Designing efficient short term & long term parking spaces for Cars, Two-wheelers,
Auto, Taxi &Buses, etc.
c. Development of Drop-off & Pick-up points at main and alternate entry.
d. Incorporation of dedicated signage at strategic locations.
e. Planning & designing of the free flow of pedestrian movement till concourse level.

Earlier there used to be a single point for Entry and Exit, so firstly we made a separate entry and exit to the station which eventually reduced the pedestrian movement collision to a big extent.

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TYPE OF PROJECT: RAILWAY STATION
PROJECT COST: 26 CRORE + 13 CRORE (PHASE 2)
PROJECT COMMENCEMENT: 2018 – ONGOING
CLIENT: WESTERN CENTRAL RAILWAYS (WCR)
SERVICES: PLANNING, ARCHITECTURE, INTERIOR, LANDSCAPE

Architects: L'Atelier Architects - Delhi
Consultants:
Structure: Buildtech
Plumbing: RKGA
Electrical: Nitin Gupta & Associates
Landscape: Harjot Kaur & Co.
Facade: Shahvia

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