architecture - civil engineering - landscape architecture - surveying - government relations Sri Shirdi Sai BabaT of emple DFW 1 GARBHAGRIHA & SIKHARA 2 TEMPLE HALL 3 MULTIPURPOSE BUILDING 4 FUTURE BUILDING FOOTPRINT 5 COURTYARD 6 GANAPATI SHRINE 7 PRADAKSHINA PATH 8 GROVE 9 PARTERRE (PLANTING BEDS) 10 REFLECTING PONDS 11 GURUSTHAN 12 PARKING LOT 13 FIRE LANE &FUTURE PARKING 14 HOMA KUNDA 15 MASONRY FENCE 16 LANDSCAPE BUFFER ZONE Although not noted in the temple program, the renderings include a Ganapati Shrine on the east-west axis of the Vaastu Mandala. This shrine was included to suggest how additional shrines might be accommodated on the Temple site in relationship to the Temple Buildings, the Manda- la, and the Pradakshina Path. This Pradakshina Path surrounds the future footprints of the Temple Buildings and is derived from the 256 Pada Vaastu Mandala. The Landscape program for the Temple site is deliberately simple and architectural in character, reinforcing, through the regular placement of trees and hedges, the geometries of the Mandala underlying the Temple plan. The Landscape plan includes parterres (geometric planting beds) that can be used for growing flowers to be used in Temple services. The Landscaping includes a tree in an enclosure recalling the old Gurusthan in Shirdi (Sassafras Albidum, a native tree with reputation as a panacea similar to that enjoyed by the Neem tree in India – the variant of Neem that will grow in Plano, Ghoda Neem or Melia Azedarach, is highly toxic). Reflecting pools are shown in the Northeast Quadrant of the Vaastu Mandala, for the use and enjoyment of the congregants and for incorporation in the Pradakshina Path. Consideration will be given to collecting roof water at this location (especially from the Temple Hall) for use in irrigation and for replenishing the ponds. The site pavement includes a Fire Lane extending only so far as is required by the Fire Code. It is anticipated that this Fire Lane will be expanded in future project phases: the plans will ac- commodate either a second driveway on Plano Parkway or a connection back to the original Temple driveway. The extended Fire Lane will accommodate sufficient head-in parking spaces along its length to meet City requirements for the expanded Temple. The intent is not to pave these additional parking spaces: parking on prepared areas of lawn or provision of grasscrete or a similar soil stabilization method would allow for half of the total parking spaces to remain green when not in use, with obvious benefits both in construction cost and sustainability. 9 9 9 13 7 8 8 4 9 5 3 4 10 11 8 4 6 12 1 2 16 14 15 12 8 W Plano Pkwy
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1 GARBHAGRIHA & SIKHARA 2 TEMPLE HALL 3 MULTIPURPOSE BUILDING 4 FUTURE BUILDING FOOTPRINT 5 COURTYARD 6 GANAPATI SHRINE 7 PRADAKSHINA PATH 8 GROVE
9 PARTERRE (PLANTING BEDS)10 REFLECTING PONDS11 GURUSTHAN12 PARKING LOT13 FIRE LANE &FUTURE PARKING14 HOMA KUNDA15 MASONRY FENCE16 LANDSCAPE BUFFER ZONE
Although not noted in the temple program, the renderings include a Ganapati Shrine on the east-west axis of the Vaastu Mandala. This shrine was included to suggest how additional shrines might be accommodated on the Temple site in relationship to the Temple Buildings, the Manda-la, and the Pradakshina Path. This Pradakshina Path surrounds the future footprints of the Temple Buildings and is derived from the 256 Pada Vaastu Mandala.
The Landscape program for the Temple site is deliberately simple and architectural in character, reinforcing, through the regular placement of trees and hedges, the geometries of the Mandala underlying the Temple plan. The Landscape plan includes parterres (geometric planting beds) that can be used for growing flowers to be used in Temple services. The Landscaping includes a tree in an enclosure recalling the old Gurusthan in Shirdi (Sassafras Albidum, a native tree with reputation as a panacea similar to that enjoyed by the Neem tree in India – the variant of Neem that will grow in Plano, Ghoda Neem or Melia Azedarach, is highly toxic).
Reflecting pools are shown in the Northeast Quadrant of the Vaastu Mandala, for the use and enjoyment of the congregants and for incorporation in the Pradakshina Path. Consideration will be given to collecting roof water at this location (especially from the Temple Hall) for use in irrigation and for replenishing the ponds.
The site pavement includes a Fire Lane extending only so far as is required by the Fire Code. It is anticipated that this Fire Lane will be expanded in future project phases: the plans will ac-commodate either a second driveway on Plano Parkway or a connection back to the original Temple driveway. The extended Fire Lane will accommodate sufficient head-in parking spaces along its length to meet City requirements for the expanded Temple. The intent is not to pave these additional parking spaces: parking on prepared areas of lawn or provision of grasscrete or a similar soil stabilization method would allow for half of the total parking spaces to remain green when not in use, with obvious benefits both in construction cost and sustainability.
The Garbhagriha is located at the center point of the Manduka Man-dala (64 Pada) from which the project Vaastu is derived, and oc-cupies an area of 4 Pada. It is also the center point of the larger 256 Pada Mandala that establishes the layout of the site. The Garbha-griha is surrounded by a Pradakshina Ambulatory. The Sikhara above the Garbhagriha recalls that of the Samadhi Mandir at Shirdi.
The Temple Hall occupies an area of 64 Pada, corresponding to the area of the Manduka Mandala of the Garbhagriha, and is sized to comfortably accommodate 600 worshipers. The Dwarakamai, Gurus-than, and Chavadi are all extensions to the Temple Hall. The Temple Hall is planned to permit future expansion to accommodate 1,200 worshipers without significant disruption of Temple services. The Ves-tibule includes shoe and cloak racks and a handwash sink, and is surmounted by a Gopuram.
Subsidiary spaces include a Sacristy (Priests’ Room) for the use of Tem-ple clergy with a sink for the cleaning of Puja items and cupboards for their storage; Restrooms; Cloak Rooms with shoe racks, Temple Offices, a commercial Kitchen, and a Multipurpose Hall with a dais. The building area containing these subsidiary spaces is planned to accommodate future expansion to include a Library and Classrooms without requiring reconstruction of the Restrooms or Kitchen, which are sized to accommodate future needs. The flat roof of the expand-ed Library and Classrooms is ideally suited, in terms of orientation and exposure, for the installation of a photovoltaic array, an option that may be considered as a future improvement.