Khamkar Wadi Open Gym & Garden

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  <h2>Khamkar Wadi Open Gym &amp; Garden — one public space, five age groups</h2>
  <p class="ck-lead">A 3,243 sq m plot beside the MMRDA road in Ambarnath West, developed into a public open space that works for a toddler, a gym user, a yoga class, a senior citizen and an audience of three hundred — at the same time, without any of them getting in each other's way.</p>
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  <h3>At a glance</h3>
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      <tr><th scope="row">Project</th><td>Development of Open Gym at Ward No. 06, Khamkar Wadi, beside MMRDA Road, in AMC Area</td></tr>
      <tr><th scope="row">Client</th><td>Ambarnath Municipal Council</td></tr>
      <tr><th scope="row">Location</th><td>Ward No. 06, Khamkar Wadi, Ambarnath West, Dist. Thane, Maharashtra</td></tr>
      <tr><th scope="row">Plot area</th><td>3,243.61 sq m</td></tr>
      <tr><th scope="row">Programme</th><td>Seven activity zones — amphitheatre, open gym, children's park, yoga area, senior citizen / meditation garden, gazebos and pathways</td></tr>
      <tr><th scope="row">Drainage</th><td>389.98 m of storm drain plus 82.00 m of drainage line</td></tr>
      <tr><th scope="row">Civikor's role</th><td>Master planning, landscape and drainage design, play and fitness equipment layout, project management consultancy</td></tr>
      <tr><th scope="row">Drawing reference</th><td>CTC/AMC/GARDEN/2025/01</td></tr>
      <tr><th scope="row">Status</th><td>Ongoing</td></tr>
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  <h3>Area statement</h3>
  <table class="ck-table ck-table--data">
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      <tr><th scope="col">#</th><th scope="col">Zone</th><th scope="col">Area</th><th scope="col">Share of plot</th></tr>
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      <tr><td>1</td><td>Pathway</td><td>932.49 sq m</td><td>28.7%</td></tr>
      <tr><td>2</td><td>Open gym area</td><td>416.55 sq m</td><td>12.8%</td></tr>
      <tr><td>3</td><td>Children's park area</td><td>364.06 sq m</td><td>11.2%</td></tr>
      <tr><td>4</td><td>Amphitheatre area</td><td>337.97 sq m</td><td>10.4%</td></tr>
      <tr><td>5</td><td>Drain (389.98 m run)</td><td>253.49 sq m</td><td>7.8%</td></tr>
      <tr><td>6</td><td>Yoga area</td><td>173.58 sq m</td><td>5.4%</td></tr>
      <tr><td>7</td><td>Shrub area</td><td>146.95 sq m</td><td>4.5%</td></tr>
      <tr><td>8</td><td>Senior citizen / meditation garden</td><td>139.86 sq m</td><td>4.3%</td></tr>
      <tr><td>9</td><td>Gazebos — 4 nos × 12.57 sq m</td><td>50.28 sq m</td><td>1.6%</td></tr>
      <tr><td>10</td><td>Toilet &amp; green room block</td><td>40.07 sq m</td><td>1.2%</td></tr>
      <tr><td>11</td><td>Lawn, planting and setbacks (balance)</td><td>388.31 sq m</td><td>12.0%</td></tr>
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      <tr><th scope="row" colspan="2">Total plot area</th><td>3,243.61 sq m</td><td>100%</td></tr>
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  <p class="ck-note">Additional drainage line of 82.00 m runs beneath the developed area. Site features include a high mast lighting pole, a statue plinth and a single controlled entry.</p>
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  <h3>The brief</h3>
  <p>Most municipal gardens are built for one user and inherited by everyone else. A children's play area gets installed, teenagers take it over in the evening, senior citizens stop coming, and within two years the space serves nobody well.</p>
  <p>Ambarnath Municipal Council's brief for Ward No. 06 was broader: an open gym, yes, but on a plot large enough to also carry children's play, yoga, a quiet zone for older residents, and an amphitheatre for ward events. The design problem was not what to include — it was how to fit five incompatible activities into 3,243 sq m without them colliding.</p>
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  <h3>How we approached it</h3>

  <h4>The pathway is the plan</h4>
  <p>Pathways take 932 sq m — 28.7% of the plot, and by a wide margin the single largest allocation. That is deliberate. The circulation loop is what separates the noisy zones from the quiet ones, gives the ward a walking and jogging track in its own right, and lets a parent reach the children's park without crossing the open gym. In a multi-use garden, generous circulation is not wasted area; it is the thing that makes the other six zones usable simultaneously.</p>

  <h4>Zoned by noise and by pace</h4>
  <p>The amphitheatre and children's park — the two loudest uses — are grouped and given their own approach. The senior citizen and meditation garden and the yoga area sit apart from them, buffered by shrub planting and pathway. Age-appropriate zoning is not just a safety matter; it is what determines whether older residents actually use a public garden after the first month.</p>

  <h4>Drainage designed before landscape</h4>
  <p>Nearly 390 m of storm drain and a further 82 m of drainage line run through a 3,243 sq m plot. That is an unusually heavy drainage provision for a garden, and it is the reason this one should remain usable through the monsoon rather than becoming a waterlogged field for four months a year. Poor drainage is the most common cause of failure in Indian municipal gardens, and it is designed out here at the master planning stage.</p>

  <h4>Shade as infrastructure</h4>
  <p>Four gazebos of 12.57 sq m each, plus shrub planting and lawn across the balance area. In Ambarnath's climate a garden without shade is a garden used for two hours a day. Distributed shade structures extend usable hours across every zone rather than concentrating shelter at one point.</p>

  <h4>Amenity built in, not promised later</h4>
  <p>A 40 sq m toilet and green room block serves both everyday visitors and amphitheatre performers. A high mast lighting pole extends safe use into the evening. These are the provisions that get value-engineered out of municipal garden projects and then never added — so they are in the master plan and the area statement from the start.</p>
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  <h3>Equipment zones</h3>
  <p>Play and fitness equipment layouts were developed with Fun Play Systems Pvt Ltd against the master plan, each zone specified for a defined age group:</p>
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      <tr><th scope="col">Zone</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Layout area</th><th scope="col">Age group</th></tr>
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      <tr><td>Children's play area</td><td>Kids play / toddlers' play</td><td>4,411 sq ft</td><td>3–12 yrs and 3–8 yrs</td></tr>
      <tr><td>Open gym</td><td>Outdoor fitness</td><td>3,845 sq ft</td><td>Adults</td></tr>
      <tr><td>Yoga area</td><td>Multi-age activity</td><td>1,881 sq ft</td><td>3–12 yrs, 3–8 yrs and adults</td></tr>
      <tr><td>Senior citizen / meditation area</td><td>Outdoor fitness</td><td>1,614 sq ft</td><td>Adults</td></tr>
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  <p class="ck-note">Separate 3–8 and 3–12 year equipment clusters within the children's park keep toddlers away from equipment scaled for older children — a basic play-safety separation that is routinely skipped.</p>
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  <h3>What the ward gets</h3>
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    <li><strong>Five user groups served at once.</strong> Toddlers, older children, adults training, yoga practitioners and senior citizens each have dedicated space — not a shared lawn with equipment on it.</li>
    <li><strong>A free neighbourhood gym.</strong> 416 sq m of outdoor fitness equipment, open to a ward where paid gym access is out of reach for most residents.</li>
    <li><strong>A venue for the ward.</strong> A 338 sq m amphitheatre with green room and toilet support gives Ward No. 06 somewhere to hold festivals, meetings and school events.</li>
    <li><strong>Usable through the monsoon.</strong> 472 m of combined drainage keeps the space open in the season when Ambarnath's public grounds usually close themselves.</li>
    <li><strong>Usable after dark.</strong> High mast lighting extends the garden's hours and makes it safer to be in.</li>
    <li><strong>A walking loop.</strong> 932 sq m of pathway gives older residents somewhere safe and level to walk daily — the single most-used feature of any successful municipal garden.</li>
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  <h3>Drawing set</h3>
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    <li><strong>D.P. plan and Google reference plan</strong> — plot located on the sanctioned Development Plan and on satellite imagery.</li>
    <li><strong>Master plan</strong> (CTC/AMC/GARDEN/2025/01) — zoning, pathways, drainage, gazebos, high mast pole, statue, toilet and green room block, with full area statement.</li>
    <li><strong>A1 — children's play area layout</strong> (DWG/TND/FPS/1059/R00).</li>
    <li><strong>A2 — open gym layout</strong> (DWG/TND/FPS/1060/R0).</li>
    <li><strong>A3 — senior citizen / meditation area layout</strong> (DWG/TND/FPS/1061/R0).</li>
    <li><strong>A4 — yoga area layout</strong> (DWG/TND/FPS/1062/R0).</li>
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  1. PROJECT NAME IS WRONG. The page (and the /projects/ index card) is titled "Funplay" /
     "Funplay Park". Fun Play Systems Pvt Ltd is the play-EQUIPMENT SUPPLIER whose name sits
     on four of the drawings. The project's actual name of work, per the master plan title
     block, is:
       "Development of Open Gym at Ward No. 06, Khamkar Wadi, beside MMRDA Road,
        in AMC Area, Ambarnath West."
     Suggested page title: "Khamkar Wadi Open Gym & Garden, Ambarnath West".
     Publishing a vendor's brand as your project name also reads oddly to a municipal client.

  2. ROAD NAME TYPO. The live page reads "MMDA Road"; the drawing reads "MMRDA Road".

  3. AREA CROSS-CHECK — two zones do not reconcile between the master plan (sq m) and the
     Fun Play layouts (sq ft). Confirm which governs before publishing both sets of figures:
       Children's park   master plan 364.06 sq m (3,919 sq ft)  vs  A1 layout 4,411 sq ft
       Open gym          master plan 416.55 sq m (4,484 sq ft)  vs  A2 layout 3,845 sq ft
       Yoga area         master plan 173.58 sq m (1,868 sq ft)  vs  A4 layout 1,881 sq ft  OK
       Senior citizen    master plan 139.86 sq m (1,505 sq ft)  vs  A3 layout 1,614 sq ft  close
     The likely explanation is that the equipment layouts include safety-zone spill beyond
     the master plan zone boundary, but this needs confirming rather than assuming.

  4. The eleven listed zones sum to 2,855.30 sq m against a 3,243.61 sq m plot, leaving
     388.31 sq m unallocated. Above this is described as "lawn, planting and setbacks".
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