Architecture student after visiting Statue of Unity raises several questions regarding planning, design, management and facilities

November 10, 2018
Central Gujarat Gujarat Tribal Belt

Vadodara: Kosha Shah, an architecture student has after her visit to Statue of Unity in a thread of tweet, questioned the design of statue site, and hardship people face due to heavy rush. Presented below is her twitter thread:

Twitter thread:

Yesterday i visited world’s biggest statue and talking about the user experience that comes with this Incredibly huge 182 m high national monument, we came across this. Obviously looking at these pictures, we’d blame our people and our ethics. But there’s more to it.

 

 

That people aren’t the only ones to be blamed but the government is at fault too. As architecture students, we’re failed by our jurors and faculty for incomplete work. Then how do you open a world record breaker monument to the public with half planned proposals?
Did they really want people to visit the monument?We were standing 3 hours straight in the heat on the road for 16 buses that’d cater to approximately 10k people at a time since private vehicles weren’t given direct entry clearly highlighting lack of parking provision.
And you CANNOT blame population explosion for the mismanagement because that is the only excuse in the running and it’s high time the government needs to consider this while approving designs. Here’s what the tourist centre and facilities there looked like at the
Then you expect people to not criticize government for what? Spending thousands of crores for global validation but not thinking abt visitors’ interest & provision of facilities the most basic being parking, covered waiting areas & separate lanes for vehicles and pedestrians?
Forget about public opinions being taken for planning considerations and holding public debates for project feasibilities because that’s what THEY do. They did not even think once how well connected and easily accessible this world monument is.
DeshGujarat

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