Multimodal Transit Hub

The Parel-Elphinstone precinct of Mumbai is the hub for majority of the government hospitals and the high-rises–commercial as well residential. This transformation of the urban fabric from the old mill lands is increasingly burdening the existing resource–railway stations. The project design aims at the creation of an integrated transit hub in the context of transformed urban fabric encompassing different modes of transportation associated with newly designed urban tissues carving the social downtown. Identification of the critical junctions created a bottleneck which we have tried to open for smooth circulation. Replacement of the old stone arched bridge over the existing railway station with cable-stayed bridge that allows utilization of leftover spaces under the bridge – for hawkers, parking, commercial offices, etc. The floor above the railway station acts as a shelter providing organized space for commuters to access other modes of transport–bus, taxi, etc, eliminating the chaos. Creation of green patches advance waiting areas to people who have time to kill in between or to people who want to conduct meetings on the go leading to the division of space. In addition to this, a conventional center is proposed over the railway station without hampering the commuter’s traffic to do away with the travel time ultimately reducing the traffic & also generating revenue for better maintenance of the building.