Report # 172 : Dry Stone Construction in Himachal Pradesh
by Ankita Sood, Aditya Rahul, Yogendra Singh, Dominik H. Lang The addressed building type has been identified in Himachal Pradesh, a northern state in India. It is a relatively recent construction typology, which can be seen prevalent in the areas where people have been forced to leave their traditional construction practices due to scarcity of […]
Report #171 : Mud Wall Construction in Spiti Valley
by Ankita Sood, Aditya Rahul, Yogendra Singh, Dominik H. Lang This report describes a building type found in Himachal Pradesh, a northern state in India. It is concentrated in the upper reaches of the state in the Lahaul and Spiti districts, which are located in a cold-desert area with very hot days and chilling nights. […]
Report #170: Thathara Houses in Himachal Pradesh
by Aditya Rahul, Ankita Sood, Yogendra Singh, Dominik H. Lang The addressed building type has been identified in Himachal Pradesh, a northern state in India. Nowadays, this type of construction practice can be seen for houses and temples, however, earlier photographs suggest that the same style was adopted to build palaces, bridges as […]
Report #154: Assam-type House
by Hemant B. Kaushik, K. S. Ravindra Babu Assam-type houses are commonly found in the northeastern states of India. Generally, it is a single storey house; however, two-storey houses are also found at some places. The main function or use of this construction type is multi-family housing. These are generally single dwelling units […]
Report # 146: Dhajji Dewari
by Kubilây Hiçyılmaz, Jitendra Bothara, Maggie Stephenson Dhajji dewari (Persian for “patch quilt wall”) is a traditional building type found in the western Himalayas. Such houses are found in both the Pakistan and Indian Administered Kashmir. This form of construction is also referred to in the Indian Standard Codes as brick nogged timber […]
Report # 150 : Timber-reinforced Stone Masonry (Koti Banal Architecture) of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh, Northern India
by Piyoosh Rautela, Girish Chandra Joshi, Yogendra Singh, Dominik Lang Despite being located in a high seismic risk area, a region in the Himalayan states of Uttarakhand and Himachal Pradesh (Northern India) exhibits an elaborate tradition of constructing multistoried houses. In the Rajgarhi area of Uttarkashi district (Uttarakhand) a large number of intact buildings of […]
Report # 147 : Traditional Naga Type House
by Amir Ali Khan The housing type is most common throughout the Northeast India which lies in the most severe seismic zone of the country (Zone V – corresponding to MSK IX). Majority of this type of houses are used for residential purposes. Typically these houses are built with light weight locally available material like […]
Report # 116 : Timber Frame Brick House with Attic
by Amit Kumar, Jeewan Pundit This type of house is used for residential purposes. The building type under study has been picked the from central part of India (Madhya Pradesh), but it is found throughout India with small or large variations. Timber is primarily used for the frame structural elements but due to an acute […]
Report # 80 : Low-strength dressed stone masonry buildings
by Ravi Sinha, Vijaya R. Ambati Construction of stone masonry buildings using easily available local materials is a common practice in both urban and rural parts of India. Stone masonry houses are used by the middle class and lower middle class people in urban areas, and by all classes in rural areas. In rural areas, […]
Report # 72 : Traditional rural house in Kutch region of India (bhonga)
by Madhusudan Choudhary, Kishor S. Jaiswal, Ravi Sinha The Bhonga is a traditional construction type in the Kutch district of the Gujarat state in India, which has a very high earthquake risk. A Bhonga consists of a single cylindrically shaped room. The Bhonga has a conical roof supported by cylindrical walls. Bhonga construction has existed […]