Project Owner: Tata Steel Ltd
Location: Bhubaneswar (Odisha)
Architect: Nuru Karim
Structural Designer: Tata Growth Shop
Material Used: Tata Structura Circular Hollow Sections
(YST 355)
Sections used: SHS 150x6, SHS 113.5x5.4, SHS 91.5x5.4,
CHS 60.3x4.5, CHS 48.3x5
Height of the structure: 20 ft
Total Tonnage: 13.5
Fabrication & Erection: M/s Sagar Business Private Ltd
Civil Work: Mr Manoranjan Tripathy
Background:
“Charkha” - A structured monument of 11-meter tall in the cross maidan,
Mumbai, India depicts the ‘spinning wheel’ symbol promoted by Mahatma Gandhi to
illustrate contemporary India’s spectrum of social and cultural dimensions
established in the Year 2012. After receiving appreciation from people for its
design and simplicity for the “Charkha” project, a thought came to Mr Kulvin
Suri’s (Chief of Sales & Marketing, Tata Tubes) mind to create another
monument in Odisha to project Odisha’s rich culture and tradition.
To turn this idea into reality, he discussed this with Mr Sunil
Kishorepuria (Director, Sagar Business Private Limited). For this, they
approached The Mayor of Bhubaneswar, Mr. Ananta Narayan Jena, to showcase an
architectural brilliance which will be imprinted in the minds of people
forever.
The “Rath” design is based on the wheel of Sun Temple, incorporating concentric polygons such that it will look like a circle. In the initial stage, it was planned that the radius of polygons goes on decreasing and at the endpoint it forms a circle. Later on for safety issues, the open polygon structure was scraped and later on the same structure was reversed and was linked in the opposite orientation.
Parties involved in structural work of this project:
1. M/s Sagar Business- (BDP - Odisha, Tata Structura)
- Project Execution of the Project
- Order was given to Sagar in Mar’2018 & Inauguration date was 13th Aug 2019
2. M/s JBS Engineering
- Structural contractor for the project
3. Mr Manoranjan Tripathy
Challenges in this project:
1. Safety: For building such architecture in a public place, having people moving around the structural area day in and out was a tough challenge, keeping safety as a priority for the park visitors. We barricaded the construction site and covered it from top to bottom so that no structural part moves beyond the covered area during construction. We stopped the construction work from 6 AM to 10:30 AM in the morning and 4 to 7 PM in the evening considering the movement of pedestrian numbers at the site.
2. Climate: Building the structure in the rainy season was a tough task for the team on steel fabrication and waterlogging in the construction site which exposes to the possible soil collapse.
3. Manual Work: Neither the BDA nor the Park authority has any idea about the cables and pipes inside the soil of the site. For that, instead of using any machines for digging the area, we did the manual work considering the degree of criticality of damage that can happen by cutting off any pipes or cables.
4. Material Transportation: Transporting the structure from the Fabrication
site to the erection site was complex considering the size of the structure and
transporting it through the city.
Key Features of the project:
1) The structure looks like rotating polygonal wheels which are laid out on a 120-degree tri-axis engineered with perfection. This represents the 8hr subdivision of the 24hr cycle and the concept of time
2) The “Rath” pavilion underbelly houses an Amphitheatre for events and performances, which can be accessed by people from all walks of life.
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3D model for The Rath project
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| The Final Output (Picture Post Erection) Youtube Link - 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni4gJEyPBTc 2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SWQhGaHT5ZQ |
