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FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE & EKISTICS JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA NEW DELHI-110025 2010-2011
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Certificate
In the partial fulfilment of the B. Arch degree program, this is to certify that ARAFAT AZIZhas worked on the DISSERTATION project entitled INDIAN ARCHITECT- AR. YATIN PANDIYA under my guidance and supervision.
External Examiner 1
External Examiner 2
External Examiner 3
INTRODUCTION
Ar. Yatin Pandya is an author, activist, academician, researcher as well as the practising architect from India with his firm FOOTPRINTS E.A.R.T.H.
He has been involved with city planning, urban design, mass housing, architecture, interior design as well as conservation projects. He has also been involved in preparing over 25 video documentaries on architecture. He has served as thesis guide to nearly 125 graduate, masters and PhD students and has delivered lectures in fifteen countries and in about hundred forays.
PHILOSPHY
Pandya has established an independent identity on the scene of Indian architecture. An analysis of Pandyas work brings out a clear philosophy of designwhich is in short, that design is a response to place and people. Though there could be a dichotomy between the language and style used in my projects, I do not think I am hypocritical in using a vastly different vocabulary for two extremely different projects with diverse needs, he says in a free-wheeling chat with Insite.The place-people ideology produces appropriate design Everyone need not like the design solution that I arrive at; some may dislike it intensely too but at least there is no reason to disbelieve my integrity and approach. Here, as the renowned architect explains his work, the diversity of his projects shines through and the reasoning behind each design solution reinforces his philosophy
KEY COMPONENT OF THE PROJECT Using natural passive cooling strategies for climate mitigation, harvesting over two 2 millions of water in a drought-prone region, Recycling waste water through natural plant(reed-bed) processes, Bio-gas generation and composting - all are key components of this project, An institute set up to increase knowledge of rural, low-cost sanitation solutions. The campus is built essentially with natural materials and integrates local crafts skills such as stone inlay and mosaic work. The ventilated two-leaf cavity walls are constructed from load-bearing bricks, with the outer face left exposed, for cost and aesthetic reasons (it achieves an earthy look).
One of the major activities of the institute is to conduct training, education and awareness programmes in the field of environment and sanitation health. The
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campus design is an art demonstration of the eco-recycling , energy regeneration and eco-planning.
SHADING
The increase massing towards south-west, exploits shaded areas to the north east by accommodating the activity areas, courts and streets along them. Brick cavity walls insulate the interiors from the high ambient atmospheric temperatures and incoming solar radiations .subterranean built from along with shared adjacent walls prevents excessive heat gain from exposure to the sun. overhangs determined by shadow throw studies and the sun angle analysis over the year controls solar penetration and also help in reducing glare in the inside interiors.
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WATER REQUIREMENT
The combined water requirements of the institute , for drinking ,sanitation and gardening purposes have been met by water harvesting both from the roofs as well as from the ground.
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The devastating earthquake, measuring 6.9 on the Richterscale, struck the state of Gujarat in India on 26th January2001, and left more than 20,000 persons dead and millions homeless. The worst hit was the desert-region of Kutch.
CONTEXT
This area has a distinct identity essentially derived from its indigenous culture, traditional architecture, local craft and vibrant and unique ethnic communities.
In the aftermath of this calamity, an opportunity to revive and strengthen this culture was seen through redevelopment of villages in a comprehensive and sustainable manner. Gandhi nu Gam at Ludiya was one of the sixteen villages, where Vastu Shilpa Foundation was involved with the rehabilitation processes. The typical traditional dwellings of the region, bhungas, have withstood the test of time forcenturies and have once again, survived the devastation of the severe earthquake. The total rehabilitation involved the construction of 455 dwellings along with service infrastructure such as sanitation, water-supply, waterharvesting ponds, check-dams and civic amenities such as schools, health-centre, grass-banks, administration office and craft centre.
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Users were involved in key decision areas such as selection of site, location of plot on site, choice of neighbour, plan configuration, provision of amenities and house construction. Thus, the appropriateness of the builtform resolution and sense of belonging was extremely high. The users re-organised their plots on the Styrofoam-cardboard simulation-kit as per their choices of location, neighbours and clustering pattern based on kinship, customs and occupation. The architect remodified it, respecting user feedback, incorporating the considerations for climate, open-space distribution and scales of clusters.
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The kit was then taken to site and one plot was pegged for the villagers to understand its size, shape and the available space. After onsite exercises, each villager was allocated his preferred location, neighbours and arrangement of bhungas on plot and the layout frozen. This finalised arrangement was then translated into a working-drawing for execution
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The circular form, monolithic construction, small openings, lightweight conical roof and low slenderness ratio of the walls renders it earthquake resistant.
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for outdoor social events of the activity centre.In continuation of the explorations for the recycling of waste at Manavsadhna activity centre, here at the crche the experimentation is done with the palette of waste material found from the other construction site. Someones waste becomes some ones resource. The walls are made out of the fly ash non burnt bricks, which is stronger and cheaper than the conventional burnt clay bricks in addition to them being pollution friendly by using the thermal PowerStations waste.The flooring is a creative collage of range of scrap material such as recycled mosaic tiles, variety of residual stone stripsas well as terrazzo. The flooring pattern in the hall for the children creates educative as well as interactive flooring
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LIST OF PROJECTS
post earthquake rehabilitation of kutchchh region demonstration units for rehabilitating sardar sarovar project affecyed people1991 ARANYA :low cost housing at Indore-1988 Post tsunami rehabilitation at Tamil nadu East Ahemadabad Development plan:a conceptual plan strategy-1984 Vidyadhar Nagar :An approach to planning-1991 Environmental sanitation institute Manav sadhana activity centre
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LIST OF AWARDS WORLD HABITAT AWARD for rehabilitation of Kutch region WORLD ARCHITECTURE COMMUNITY AWARDS for Manavsadhna activity centre
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BIBLIOGRAPHY
INTERNET RESOURCES: www.insiteindia.in/pdf/2009/june/insite%20story.pdf www.greenbusinesscentre.org www.worldarchitecture.org www.vastushilpa.org
CHIODERO.PDF
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