Gangasagar Urban Intervention

Urban order goes beyond the abstract unit typologies of buildings and public voids; it is also defined by users’ purposes. Gangasagar Mela sees the congregation of two million people every year who take part in a three day ceremonial bathing at the Ganges. This massive gathering makes Gangasagar Mela the second largest mega fair in the world. Due to its cultural significance, the island is constantly in a state of flux. At peaks of influx, the transit systems at the island fail.

Infrastructural failure and lack of organisation at Kachuberia bus stop leads to a disarrayed urban-scape. The pandemic, being another factor, limits tourism to a great extent cutting down Gangasagar’s primary source of revenue. The program therefore intends to set up a conjunct system of transit along the main route to the Mela, through necessary amount of infrastructural interventions and envisions a resilient community having economic sustenance.