Rural trade centre
an initiative towards smart villages
By,
Kumar avinash
5th
year
2011-16 batch
Sunderdeep college of
architecture, Ghaziabad,Up, india
Thesis on
rural trade centre
• Project: rural trade centre
• Project type: semi urban- rural project
• Rural trade centre is a small initiative towards smart villages
• Rural trade centre is a platform that provides equal
opportunities to the citizents of india (especially belonging to the
rural background ) to access their bussiness in their respective
fields( agriculture, dairy, poultry farming etc) and also share
their ideas and views with each other.
• Rural trade centre further provides financial as well as
institutional help for the same.
• Following aspects comes under rural trade centre:
Grain depot(silos)
Rural/ gramin bank;
Showrooms of agricultural
tools, equipments, & machenery
Vegetable market
Grain market
R & d labs
Plant nurseries
• destipte of all these factors farmers suicide rate is increasing
day by day ; bad crops , lack of storage, low rates are forcing
farmers to leave their occupations and move towards urban
settlements in search of better standards of living.
• Therefore its hard time now when
planners should start thinking about
smart villages also.
• Everyone in india is
talking about smart
cities , digital india but
within this race for
making urban life smart
we have forgotten that
still 55% of population
in india is employed on
agriculture, agriculture
adds nearly about 16%
to the gdp, also india is
among the top five
producers of
agriculture crops;
Grain depot(silos)
Rural/ gramin bank;
Showrooms of agricultural
tools,equipments,&machenery
Vegetable market
Grain market
R & d labs
Plant nurseries
Rural trade centre is a space designed to incorporate all
the aspects of rural industry of india;such as
Spice market
Dairy
Cattle / poultry market
Workshops &seminar halls
Craft market (haat)
Store (regular &
cold storage)
Guest houses
Rural trade centre is a platform that
combines all the aspects of the rural
industry of indian society and the
concept is inspired from nuclei that
combines all the atoms of a molecule
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Provision for two separate sets of movement on the site
Pedesterian & vehicular(includes heavy trucks)
Provide 24x7 servicibility
The site is in manesar , that experiences almost 8 monthes
of high temperature along with harsh sun rays therefore
provision of shed for pedestrian movement
Protection from dust storm
Weighing bridge plays a very essential role
in smoothing of any industry,it is a
platform used to calculate the net weight
of the goods coming in heavy vehicle
Location of weighing bridge to
provide servicibility to various
markets, storage & industries is yet
another challenges on site
Solution to this
challenge was
found by centrally
erecting a weighing
tower which is
accessible from
each zones of the
site
Thesis on
rural trade centre
Southern elevation
eastern elevation
northern elevation
western elevation
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