Riverfront Regeneration
Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh
- Bijnor, Uttar Pradesh
- 2025
- Under Construction
- Riverfront Public Realm
- 2.4 km of riverfront
- Urban local body
Riverfront Regeneration rebuilds a stretch of the Bijnor riverfront that had been cut off by informal dumping, unlit paths and walls that turned their back on the water. The plan treats the edge as a public room. The land between the town and the river becomes a continuous promenade, and the flood-prone zone is set aside for planting that can take seasonal submergence.
The work began with a spatial research phase: mapping flood lines, footfall at the bathing steps, the routes that women and school children take to the water, and the existing trees worth keeping. The resulting plan places stepped seating where the bank rises most gently and keeps the steepest banks as planted terraces that hold soil through the monsoon.
Materials are local and repairable. Dholpur sandstone is used for steps and copings, lakhori brick for walls and lighting pillars, and native grasses and riverine trees for the flood zone. Drainage is designed to be read by residents. Visible channels, not hidden culverts, carry storm water to recharge pools along the promenade.
“A river edge works when people can sit at it in every season.”
Seen in photographs
The ideas that shape the building
- 01
A promenade as a public room
One continuous 2.4 km path links the bathing steps, the market edge and two schools without a break.
- 02
A flood-tolerant planting zone
Native grasses and riverine trees sit in the seasonal flood band and recover on their own after submergence.
- 03
Stepped seating on the gentle bank
Sandstone steps follow the slowest rise of water, so people have a place to sit even at low flow.
- 04
Open, legible drainage
Surface channels and recharge pools replace culverts, so residents can see and understand how the town drains.
Dholpur Sandstone
Lakhori Brick
Kota Stone
Riverine Planting
Then and now
- Ar. [Founder Name]
- [Team Member 2]
- [Team Member 5]
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