The old walled city of Ahmedabad with its bustling narrow lanes, intermingling pols, community announcement boards, the bird feeders, the timeless darwajas (city-gates), temples, Indo-Islamic monuments, day markets ...
Every citizen experiences a wonderful opportunity to appreciate the influence and significance of the structures that make up the urban landscape. The built environment,
like its outstanding and unique natural surroundings, ...
All the planned physical development is aimed at achieving a better quality of life for human being. A city
is more than the sum of its inhabitants. People put together can create a collective surplus of enjoyment-buildings ...
Apart from food and clothes, housing is the basic necessity of humans, which
not only protects him from the surrounding adverse conditions, but also gives a sense
of well being and courage to develop further. The issues ...
The Scheme of Affordable Housing in Partnership aims at operationalising the strategy envisaged in the National Urban Housing & Habitat Policy (NUHHP) 2007, of promoting various types of public-private partnerships - of ...
Streets are the primary unit of city experience. In Indian context street plays a very important role as streets as streets are core component of the community structure in Indian neighbourhoods. After rigorous urban ...
Since the advent of civilisation, housing has been recognised as one of the basic necessities for human existance, the other two being food and cloth. Housing and shelter are two distinct terms. Shelter denotes the physical ...
In India, growth of urban population during the past decade indicates higher growth for metro cities. There are 7 mega cities (4 million plus) and 28 metropolitan cities in the country. The urban population has been growing ...
This thesis seeks to analyze fenestration systems used in office buildings in hot humid conditions with a view towards thermal comfort. It does this by simulating the way in which different fenestration systems perform ...
�â� � The task of the designer is to create the best possible indoor climate. The occupants
of the building judges the quality of the design from a physical as well as emotional
point of view�â� � (Koenigsberger.1974)
An ...
National census reports during the 1960's showed that very large population shifts were occurring from rural to urban areas in most of the developing countries due to rapid industrialization. India too, has been experiencing ...
Hills are the most difficult yet most interesting and challenging features to carry any development work. Construction of buildings in Hilly terrain is constrained by their difficult terrain, steep gradients, complex ...
The District Centres are envisaged to serve as a climax of multi-nodal activities of the community, providing the city with a hub of mixed use activities, including commercial, retail and community facilities. It is a ...
It is a common knowledge that whereas the fabric of a building last for about a hundred year, the system for ther-mal controls within buildings last for a much shorter period and hence due emphasis should be put on envelope ...
Since architectural history has been rather neglected, particularly in India, we may ask why stgdy tribal architec-ture in the space age, with its rapid tempo of change
One can learn from the past; that study of the past ...
At present, tribal architecture is disappearing owing to lack of conservation and the attitudes and the profound and radical transformation into modern life causing the neglect.
Tribal villages clearly show the importance ...
As long as human beings exist on the earth, they are continuously in conflict with the nature. This conflict results from the human desires, to live longer and healthier; however, those are limited by nature. The various ...
Due to the Sustainable features and the many other benefits, Adaptive Reuse is gaining significance around the World these days. Adopting Adaptive Reuse helps Preserve the heritage and character of the original building, ...
Photogrammetry is the science in which the geometrical properties of an object are analysed in quantitative terms from their images recor-ded on photographs. Though the application fields of Close Range Photo-grammetry are ...