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The Movement Plan of the buses.

Located amidst an industrial neighbourhood, the entrance is a gated approach with three ticketing windows.

Fuel Stations are provided with a space for 10 buses along each line.

The concept of the structure evolves from anchoring of the foot to the ground.

The cantilevered roof of 26m shades the main Inspection Area.

Overhead balcony provides aniche for various activities beneath and provisions cyclic air-pneumatic lines above.

The Movement Plan of the buses.

Located amidst an industrial neighbourhood, the entrance is a gated approach with three ticketing windows.

Fuel Stations are provided with a space for 10 buses along each line.

The concept of the structure evolves from anchoring of the foot to the ground.

The cantilevered roof of 26m shades the main Inspection Area.

Overhead balcony provides aniche for various activities beneath and provisions cyclic air-pneumatic lines above.

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Embracing the quirks of an industrial enclave is challenging; especially with a public transport tangent to it.  There are certain drawbacks to creating a workshop facility to cater to such an aspect in an architectural framework. For Arya Architects, the reading of the 3500sqm Workshop was through a set requirement of maintenance, fuelling, washing and cleaning place for the BRTS buses. The intricacy of the detailing required a thorough sequential logic areas and detailing like inspection pits, major pits, wash ramps, a fuelling station and a depot to park 60 buses. Studies of several bus workshops and armed with their own inputs, an honest expression of ‘Form follows function’. The revelations of the former studies warranted a column-free space. A thought there is more to work than meets the eye established the rationale for a designer vertical of the workshop.

Amidst a neighbourhood that wears a forlorn industrial look, the approach is a gated entrance from which the spaces unfold onwards. Above from the gate, is a comfortable two-storey approach that extends to house canteen, collection room & toilets. The circulation spine traces the maintenance trajectory of the BRTS bus, diverging in accordance to the respective need. The clash of blue-painted metal and grey building palette offers a quiet contrast. The building is not a structure—it is an assemblage of functions. The site planning has evolved around three even spaces; the Inspection Area alongside the Fuel Stations, the cleaning structure and the painting-denting area which is niched in the building containing engineering offices & an overhead tank. The buses, once past the entrance gate and the ticketing spaces, will curve alongside to align to 4 Fuel Stations. The projects signature feature is its form. Large tubular steel members spring up from the floor and branch off, cantilevering about 26m across the floor. The metaphoric reference of the arching shape lies in the anchorage of the foot to the floor. Beneath the parabolic shed, concrete columns twist linearly to divide the Inspection Area into various functions like delineation of trenches in the main repair area. A heightened balcony lines the steel sections provided for cyclic air-pneumatic lines. Angular terraces abut out onto the exterior from these. Carving out their spaces underside of the balcony, offices, storage and conference spaces are formed. Two building views are linked by a vast expanse of parking slots wherein each structure terminates a long view to define a divisible axis in the site. The cleaning structure is composed of machines for 2 buses replete with draining area for water that trickles down to Filtration tanks for water recycling. The utilitarian plan wraps up with the last building that houses the Painting & Denting Area, Engineer’s cabins and Overhead tank. The ascent inside generates break-outs semi-covered with ribs that filter in soft light.

Surrounding the two structures is a parking for 52 buses. Constructed in a low lying area, the primal step was to raise the ground by 2m.Taking advantage of this context; percolation wells collect rainwater and store it for future use. Sustainability has been considered as a balance sheet wherein the planning is in sync with a climatic agenda. The entire construct fabricates a formidable looking but inhabitable industrial feel with a minimalist palette of is M.S. fabrication with supporting system of RCC frame with exterior aggregate plaster cladding and the flooring,  a primarily trimix with Rough Kota Stone in some areas and aggregate plaster. The generative here is a new form of architecture unfamiliar to mainstream usage— an interpretation of the undecorated style of industrial architecture to produce an austere aesthetic to the space.

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