Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation project to erect modern landmark; will take 6-8 months to complete.
Imagine a giant Qutub Minar like structure of colorful stainless steel blocks, one that changes colour and shape while you take a walk along the Sabarmati River.
If you think the above description is a case of an imagination gone wild, you are wrong.
For, such a structure may actually come up in Ahmedabad if everything goes as per the plan of the civic body.
The Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) will soon erect a modern day landmark - a rotating tower — near the Sabarmati Riverfront Project, its most ambitious urban planning project.
Senior officials in the AMC, who were earlier divided over the issue of location, finally seem to have zeroed in on the Sabarmati Riverfront.
Earlier, the officials were considering Kankaria Lake premise and Science City as potential sites for setting up the structure. The need for large open space that showcases the beauty of the structure is what worked in the Sabarmati Riverfront's favour.
"We have identified three locations at the Sabarmati Riverfront project. The most suitable place is near the Subhash bridge where there is open space and no tall buildings nearby. We will soon finalise the details," said a senior AMC official.
If buzz in the civic body is to be believed, the final decision on the location - like other major decisions - has been left to chief minister Narendra Modi. The AMC officials have been asked to prepare a presentation on how the structure will look like from all the three available space on riverfront.
The project will take around six to eight months to be completed. The blocks will be constructed in a way so that they can move freely on a rotational axis to change the shape of the tower according to the different angles of rotation of each block.
The tower will have six structural blocks with stainless steel cladding and will use thrust bearings to transmit loads and robotic movements between adjacent blocks.
City-based premier institute National Institute of Design (NID) and Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, have worked on the details of this project and had submitted a feasibility report to the civic body.
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