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Page 1. HABITAT ASIA ISSUES AND RESPONSES Gen.Editor: RPMISRA VOLUME I INDIA BS BHOOSHAN RP MISRA... more Page 1. HABITAT ASIA ISSUES AND RESPONSES Gen.Editor: RPMISRA VOLUME I INDIA BS BHOOSHAN RP MISRA Page 2. Page 3. Page 4. The Habitat Conference held at Vancou-ver, Canada in May-June 1976 can be ...

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... Nepal: Profile of a Himalayan kingdom. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Rose, Leo E. Aut... more ... Nepal: Profile of a Himalayan kingdom. Post a Comment. CONTRIBUTORS: Author: Rose, Leo E. Author: Scholz, John T. PUBLISHER: Westview Press (Boulder, Colo.). SERIES TITLE: YEAR: 1980. PUB TYPE: Book (ISBN 0891586512 ). VOLUME/EDITION: ...

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Nostalgia and Domesticity Never since I left my native home and village in 1963, did I stay there... more Nostalgia and Domesticity Never since I left my native home and village in 1963, did I stay there for more than a month continuously. Yet the image of my parents' middle-class-farmer's house, 30 km south of Kerala's Capital, with leaky tile roof, wooden creaky attic, a cattle shed and other appurtenances , remained as that of my home. The place I grew up and had siblings, grandparents and parents and played with early friends around the yards, along with all the uncomfortably hot and dark interiors, rice and grains in all nooks, the dust, high ceilings, the cattle 'moos', the sweaty nights of summer, the grandma-instilled fear of open windows at night and love of darkness, all etched a foggy yet fond memory of my home until the last of my parents , my father, died in 2008. Until then I used to return to my home regularly; after that I do go there often, but I do not 'return' home. The image of my home evoporated. What bound me to the notion of my home was personal rootedness, the parent-child-emotional link. Is that, perhaps, what we call abstractly as nostalgia of domesticity? This emotional link also attaches visual and non-visual images and holds an unexplainable ambience that constitutes the physicality of the home. We also project the personal nostalgic domesticity to a larger geography, landscape, language and culture; denoted by earth features, words, phrases, festivals, chores. Thus collectivised, this notion of domesticity is no more personal, but nebulous, mythical and abstracted. The physicality of that enlarged notion is based on commonality in personal nostalgia combined with, manufactured history and wishful thinking. Take the example of Kerala. To satisfy new found love for one's heritage, as a value by itself, an ideal of a 'Kerala domestic architecture', abetted by the wishes of the returning Diaspora, coalesced around two generations ago. We appropriated architectonic forms of the past and shapes of physical objects and hermeneutically tried to attach new associated meanings in a search for what constituted the quality of home and its rootedness in relation to the landscape. Did we get where we wanted to go? The reproduction of past forms in new materials such as the sloped roof of concrete with pasted tiles above is like trying to glue back fallen leaves on to the trunk to revive a dying tree. However much one loved that tree, it makes no sense. This misappropriation of past forms to denote the ambiguous nostalgic domesticity is with an alleged rationale of cultural appropriateness, no proof

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Traditional Indian temple architecture often has a very high degree of complex geometry embedded ... more Traditional Indian temple architecture often has a very high degree of complex geometry
embedded in its construction. The predominantly stone constructions during the period of
Kalyani Chalukya period exhibit a highly sophisticated form generative logic in its visibly
complex geometry. This is not only of the form at the micro level elements but also at the
macro level elements and even in the overall form generation of its sikharas. This research
investigates the possibilities of these parametric form generative principles embedded in the
temple designs. It is done by comparing the 3D scanned models of the temples acquired from
Laser scans, photogrammetric and infrared scanners with that of models generated using
computational methods in CAD environment using only a few parameters. The virtual #D
model is tested for similarity or anomalies in both geometries through geometrical
investigations of few selected examples of columns, sikharas, plinths and vimanas of temples.
This paper reports only the method and the testing of its robustness in columns only.
Keywords: Kalyanichalukya temples, parametric design deve

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In recent times, much advancement has taken place in digital reconstruction in architectural cons... more In recent times, much advancement has taken place in digital reconstruction in architectural conservation and archaeology. The application of these techniques opened up new insights in understanding the intricacies involved in the field of heritage conservation. This paper discusses various challenges posed in the restoration of a rare 3rd century BC Buddhist “Stupa” at Sannati, Kanaganahalli Village, India unearthed by Archaeological Survey of India. The author has been involved in documentation of the monument and preparation of Heritage Conservation Plan and presents the different techniques of observation, data recording, condition assessment and digital reconstruction of the monument to ascertain the original form of the structure which is at present in a ruined and scattered condition. The paper throws light on the techniques of photogrammetric documentation, long range and short range laser scanning techniques and manual measurement techniques exclusively devised for this kind of situations. Also the paper compares the pros and cons of these techniques and elaborates on their applications in different contexts.

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Devaraja Market was built during the reign of Sri Chamaraja Wodeyar 1868-94. It is one of those s... more Devaraja Market was built during the reign of Sri Chamaraja Wodeyar 1868-94. It is one of those several Market spaces built around that time in India, in the tradition of Indian Bazaars. It is similar to Crawford Market in Mumbai, Russell market in Bangaluru or Connemara Market, Thiruvananthapuram. It is laid out with a two storied facade around and a series of simple rows of sheds inside, having tiled roof over steel trusses. Part of the rows were destroyed sometime ago and had been rebuilt in concrete with flat roof. The market is considered one of the surviving traditional Indian urban market heritage buildings.. To that extent it has value to be preserved. Now a controversy is raging regarding fitness of the market; to be conserved or to be demolished as unsafe. All kinds of opinions have been expressed especially after part of the structure collapsed during a conservation effort recently. We know that there are many poorer structures that were conserved elsewhere, but then that requires careful consideration of rehabilitation of not only the buildings but also its spaces and removal of overloaded functions. Simple rehabilitation is of no heritage value and will have limitations of use. Here we have to consider three questions. • 1. The market as originally built and its spatial heritage quality as an Indian Bazaar. • 2 The outer building's conservation fitness and • 3 The overloading of the structures and spaces over the period of more than 100 years. All these are interconnected though we will consider them separately. We take the first question first. Is the original market as built and as existing is of heritage quality to be conserved? Is one of the few surviving urban Indian bazaars. The plan, the spaces and the structures built around the bazaar space have served about 150 years and did it well. Made for a population of less than 50,000 of people upgrading a weekly open market in 1870 to a daily bazaar, this semi open market has been over loaded for its function as a main market today. The vegetable as well as the meat and fish markets cannot function as the only market for the more than a million population of the city. It is also not a wholesale market only a retail one. It is just overloaded and dense with retail market function. To be noted is that these functions need not be in the centre of the city. Naturally, the original use of the space and the spatial organisation that served for as smaller retail place has been changed and modified most likely beyond original structure. The heritage value of a retail market is to assessed as to the value of the spatial structure and ambience it can project to the future generation and to visitors and to scholars who at a future date would like to look at and be inspired by the market as it functioned originally. This actually means museumising the past with some functions retained to make it viable to retain. Retaining the structures, many of it has no value as they are too common place trussed tile structures, is meaningless and of purely sentimental value and to a large extent of values of vested interests who are the stakeholders. As built heritage these sheds have no value, especially the whole idea of retaining the market and continue with overloaded functions. Only way it can be meaningfully utilised would be to make it of a low intensity market and change the main functions of retail vegetable market to be decentralised in many secondary centres around the city. Beyond these spatial heritage of market, part of it can be retained for a museum value perhaps, for touristic purpose, the main contender for the heritage tag is the peripheral structure. That is the second question. Here again, the original structure seem to have been severely altered, even mutilated, subdivided and appurtenances extended in to the street. The heritage value is in its architecture which largely is eclectic type taking cues from Mogul and other architectural styles and using a technology of bricks, lime and Madras terrace of the time. The structure does not seem to be maintained well either. However, it is possible to conserve any old structure as a heritage piece, provided it is reduced from the current intense function and carefully done. Conservation should not be confused with rehabilitation of a building for a continued utility alone. It is to conserve a piece of built heritage for the cultural and historical value of it. To that extent it has a sentimental dimension. It does not mean only to conserve the building or part of it alone, but to change its functions and substantially change the quality of the precinct as well. The spaces around the building and the roads make up the precinct including the pavements etc as it would have existed originally but as of now. It would also mean that removal of neon lights, contemporary hoardings, signages and recreating an ambiance of the past , perhaps not allowing certain functions other than that would fit for a heritage structure, like coffee houses, restaurants, book shops, curio and handicraft shops, library etc. In short museumising the whole place and creating a cultural-recreational-market complex. The heritage value of the city would improve, then. That means that the place cannot be allowed to be used as it is now and then increasing the intensity of use continuously. The market literally can be moved to other places as in this location it does not serve the whole city any more. Lack of secondary vegetable retail markets have created miserable road side vending conditions in many parts of the city. A project has to be to create many markets in different places. This would go a long way in improving the city's livability. It would be better than wasting money on replication of past forms of structures like KR Circle in many junctions to install statues. In one go, we are insulting the personalities of these statues to stand in inaccessible traffic islands and also exposing our ignorance of history and built heritage in mathematically multiplying and aping the architectural forms of past follies.

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