Report # 138 : Stone masonry residential buildings
by Qaisar Ali, Taj Muhammad In the Northern part of Pakistan, which mostly consists of mountainous terrain and where building stones are more abundantly available than any of the alternate building material, people commonly construct single story stone masonry buildings for residential purpose. A variety of building typologies are in use. An approximate distribution of […]
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 # 112 : Unreinforced brick masonry residential building
by Qaisar Ali In Peshawar and adjoining areas (in northern Pakistan), the most popular residential construction is a single- or double-story unreinforced masonry building with 9-inch-thick, solid burnt-brick walls and a 5- to 6-inch reinforced-concrete roof slab. Sometimes, however, 4.5-inch solid brick walls are also used as load-bearing walls. The layout of these dwellings is […]
Report # 99 : Traditional Nawari house in Kathmandu Valley
by Dina D’Ayala, Samanta S. R. Bajracharya The traditional newari house is usually of rectangular plan shape and developed over three storeys. The depth of the plan is usually about six metres with façades of various widths but most commonly between 4 to 8 metres (see also Korn 1976, and NSET-Nepal 2000). The organisation of […]
Report # 91 : Single-storey brick masonry house (EMSB1)
by Mehedi Ansary This is a one-story brick masonry house of fired bricks with cement or lime mortar; roof is either GI sheet or another material. These houses can be seen throughout Bangladesh. During the 1918 Srimangal, 1930 Dhubri, and other recent earthquakes, this type of housing suffered heavy damage. Houses with a continuous lintel […]
Report # 86 : Single-family wooden house
by Norio Maki, Satoshi Tanaka Japan has a long tradition related to wood construction. The main building of the Horyuji-temple, which was constructed in the late 7th century, is the oldest existing wooden structure in the world. Most Japanese housing is of wood construction. In 1993, 68.1% of the 45.8 million units of housing stock […]
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 # 76 : Load-bearing wall buildings protected with the “sliding belt” base isolation system
by Jacob Eisenberg, Svetlana Uranova, Marat Abdibaliev, Ulugbek T. Begaliev Sliding belt is a base isolation system developed to protect buildings from seismic effects by reducing and limiting the level of seismic forces. The sliding belt system is installed at the base of the building between the foundation and the superstructure. The foundation is usually […]
Report # 74 : Uncoursed rubble stone masonry walls with timber floor and roof
by Yogeshwar K. Parajuli, Jitendra K Bothara, Bijay K. Upadhyay This is a typical rural housing construction in the hills and mountains throughout Nepal. It is a traditional construction practice followed for over 200 years. These buildings are basically loose-fitting, load-bearing structures constructed of uncoursed rubble stone walls in mud mortar, with timber floors and […]
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 […]