Taj Ganj

Involving shopkeepers and local residents, a strategical plan by Studio Archohm improves Taj Ganj market’s urban nature and helps in upgrading basic amenities and infrastructures.

Taj Ganj is a 400 year old market district, sharing the peripheral skyline of the Taj Mahal. Taj Ganj’s unique urban condition has escaped major state interventions towards urbanization. Involving stakeholders like shopkeepers and local residents, a strategical plan improves the street character and helps in upgrading the basic amenities and infrastructure. The proposal includes a urban scale development of the streets by resurfacing the carriage and providing pedestrian foot paths, cycle tracks, landscape parks, seatings, toilets, security infrastructures.

The proposal deals with the tourist facilities improvement by providing greener zone with urban infrastructure at intermediate intervals and improving the street facade and street infrastructure of the roads. Also proposals for providing tourist facility centre in the form of Tajganj Visitors Centre has been proposed in the close vicinity of the Taj Complex in Taj Ganj area. It looks towards providing facilities and information for the tourist and activity center for the local craftsmen act as a bridge between the tourist and locals.