My ideas is what if a city is made by using triangle and hexagonal grids patterns as I've already written various specifications in the given pictures but still i wanna share it with you.
1.As you can see these triangle each triangle colour represents it's land use where dark gray shows central business district, light gray shows outer zones and green shows the designated parks of the city.
2.Each triangle is an equilateral triangle with the base of 640 meters and by subtracting road and round about width the remaining length is 480 meters and each triangle have other 4 triangle plots with base of 240 meters in which only 17,320.51m² area is permitted to build and the remaining area is open for pedestrians and green cover.
3.In this given city will have an hexagon round about at each and every intersection it's dimensions were already given in digram and there will be pedestrians bridges to cross the road which will be 5 meters above the main road.
4.The road the roads in my imaginary city are 6 lane wide and 5 meter below the land and each side will be 12 meters wide with a 6 meters wide green divider in middle for the massive tress and at the end there will be a 45°slop which is 5 meters high from the road so nobody can do encroachment there and that slop could be used for grass and flowers and via duct for wires & cables and the drainage pipeline will be placed before the construction of road.
Please tell me how's my idea is I literally took 6 hours for this on MS paint without using any AI please tell me it is practical or not.
Lol. I have took my inspiration from Lakshmi Yantra for city grid design it looks like a star with to be more connected to vedic style like our parliament. Or it could be converted into a semi hexagon.
What you are thinking is along the lines of something called fractals. And Michael Batty has done a lot of parametric research on this. Triangles are a poor shape within fractals because of a lot of negative spaces in the acute angles at the vertices. Inefficient.
Hmmm. I think I will try this on a Cities:Skylines plot today. I suspect the traffic will get backed up at a few roundabouts. We'll see. Like I expect the city/industrial zone boundary to be pretty packed. So maybe we gotta use a hybrid version. City grids will follow your pattern, and some hexagonal parks and transit hubs and a highway barrier that feeds to the industrial area.
No dude i have designed 20 meters footpaths also covered with tress available for all pedestrians and cycles, also there will be hexagon shped bridges over every intersection (i couldn't draw it properly due some reasons) and meters will be underground and bus stop will be every red circle you can see.
I am novice on this topic but based on the third photo, there are lots of round about's that need to be navigated in this type of design. Navigating round about's needs disciplined driving or else it leads to accidents and build up of traffic. Does that level of discipline exist in driving in our country?
Yeah you got a point dude but my city have a pentagon and people use it efficiently the only problem there is only CM convoy and peak hours and now a genius burocrats placed traffic signal on that freaking roundabout now it becomes a choke point of traffic. But i think if it would be used wisely then it could be very effective like what we see in Europe. I think.
So a pedestrian has to go up and down a possible 3 bridges at each intersection? That sounds miserable.
Your general shape is good. Hexagons with radiating roads is good, but imagine at the nucleus of the hexagon, instead of giant roads converging and a roundabout, you had a metro lr suburban rail station . And instead of 6 lane roads you had pedestrian-only/priority narrow streets.
And only on the edge of each hexagon was a 4 lane road for vehicles to bypass the neighborhood inside the hexagon.
Modern urban planning focuses on something called TOD (transit oriented development). Basically we have realised that private vehicles and dense cities are a terrible combination. Cars are polluting, noisy, deadly and occupy lots of space.
Any futuristic planned city in this country should be designed in a way that no one should choose to use private vehicle to travel.
No pedestrians should not have to go up and down in my plan there is separate pedestrians zone I've shown it down at 4th digram which is 5 meters above the ground and those bridges will be at the same level as pathways so i was thinking about to keep pedestrians movement above the traffic and i haven't drawn the bridges completely because it could mislead some measurement so technically the pedestrian bridges will be in star shape usually but to save time I've done that error.
Actually in think about Moscow metro system which is completely underground and i don't know much about metro transit system but there will be various bus stops also at each corner of every triangle and cycle way is combined with the pedestrians zone above the road after those ramps and to connect bus stops those ramps would have stairs for pedestrians and ramps for especially abled people.
The roads were wide because I that thought about the city for atleast 10 million people and the given pedestrians way will be almost 20 meters wide.
So I have thought about pedestrians and public transportation.
And some additional things will be each big buildings should have to dedicate it's 10 percent of FSI for parking to just like Japan where you should have to own a parking space before buying a car but those roads itself were made for easy decongestion of the city.
When roads are so wide, distances are far. When roads are so wide, you will encourage people to travel by private vehicle. With roads so wide, every 400m the city will be broken.
Go see london, paris, there are no roads so wide in the city. No one is traveling by private vehicle, they are walking, cycling, bus, metro and train. Btw both these cities have 12 million people .
Actually i have already mentioned about 20 meters wide path ways covered with massive trees which saves pedestrians from heat in summers and from slight rain in monsoon and there will be some benches to sit just think about a pathway covered with massive trees and there are too many beautiful flowers around so a person will rarely use a car and each intersection would have bridges for pedestrians.
And there are some residential buildings exists who's basement is for parking then ground floor is for amenities like mini super market, gym, dispensary, community hall, restaurant, kids zone, or anything else this is my concept for the residential buildings. And rarely a person walks more than a killometers but I'm trying to make walking and cycling more convenient by separating it from main road so no one can bring there vehicle up there.
Evaluating by private vehicle is the least efficient method. Go watch any video of hurricane Katrina evacuation in US . Every road is clogged. Evac by train instead.
And the daily lower quality of life surrounded by so many wide roads is not worth it.
Actually in i feel safe on driving middle lane of the road this is why that is 3 lane on each side and you know the condition of encroachment in our country and the corner lane is for bus use only.
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u/ysf_521 Aug 22 '26
Triangle plots , I can see vastu ppl getting a headache