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Dissertation ON

INDIAN ARCHITECT AR. YATIN PANDYA Submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirement for the award of degree of Bachelor of Architecture Submitted by ARAFAT AZIZ Guided by AR. LAYEEQUE AZAM

FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE & EKISTICS JAMIA MILLIA ISLAMIA NEW DELHI-110025 2010-2011 1

Faculty of Architecture & Ekistics, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi

Certificate In the partial fulfilment of the B. Arch degree program, this is to certify that ‘ARAFAT AZIZ’has worked on the DISSERTATION project entitled “INDIAN ARCHITECT- AR. YATIN PANDIYA” under my guidance and supervision.

AR. LAYEEQUE AZAM Dissertation Guide

Prof. S.M. Akhtar Dean

External Examiner 1

External Examiner 2

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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.

LIFE & CAREER  Graduate from CEPT University-Ahmedabad,  He has availed Master of Architecture degree from McGill UniversityMontreal.  He has written over hundred articles in National and International Journals. Several books authored by him on architecture, especially "Concepts of Space in Traditional Indian architecture", and "Elements of Space Making" have been published internationally.  He was the Associate Director at Vastu Shilpa Foundation for Studies and Research in Environmental Design for 24 years.  He has won nearly twenty five National and International awards for planning and urban design, architecture, interior design, research, written work as well as architectural videos.  He has also been Visiting Faculty at National Institute of Design and CEPT University at Ahmedabad and Guest Lecturer and Critic to various universities in India and abroad.

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 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 Pandya’s work brings out a clear philosophy of design…which 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

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Environmental Sanitation Institute Near Narmada Canal, Near Coba Circle, From Sabarmati to G’Nagar Road Sughad, India

ARCHITECT: Vastu-Shilpa Foundation / Yatin Pandya CLIENT: Environmental Sanitation Institute Award cycle 2007 SITE AREA:7’500sqm. BUILT AREA: 2’500 sqm. GROUND FLOOR AREA:2’000sqm. 5

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).

ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION INSTITUTE does work in rural sanitation.

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 6

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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PASSIVE COOLING(THROUGH DESIGN) SUBTERRANEAN SPACES (EARTH AS AN INSULATOR)

 LAND MANAGEMENT (CUT AND FILL) Land management in terms of cut and fill on the flat site for solar passive design like berming , evaporate cooling and sunk levels also create spatial and interests. Orchard and kitchen gardens are means of productive land resources

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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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GANDHI-NU-GAM: LUDIYA, KUTCH: REBUILDING RURAL KUTCH THROUGH COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION

CONTEXT

 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. 

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. 12

 DESIGN CONSIDERATIONS: PARTICIPATORY DESIGN AND DEVELOPMENT

 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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Manavsadhna Activity Centre and Crèche: Revisiting the Recycling Manavsadhna is a social NGO that engages in the service of humanity. To address the issue of educating, while employing the slum children, the NGO created an activity centre in the middle of a squatter settlement. The centre also operates as an informal school in the morning. In the afternoon it trains the youth with vocational skills for better employability. And in the evening it transforms into community centre with sports, leisure, gymnastics as well as social gathering facility. This multi-use centre was created as a demonstration of the indigenously developed and locally produced building components created by recycling the domestic and municipal waste. This meant reduction in waste thrown, thereby reduction in environmental pollution. Employment and empowering of the urban poor as value addition processes of converting waste into building components create economic opportunities, without needing capital intensive, mechanised or centralized production setup. The building components thus produced are, cheaper and better performing than the conventional alternatives readily employed, as a result their housing can also become affordable and better in quality. In an adjoining plot a crèche was developed. Young children in slum areas have problem of being looked after through the day, when both parents are out at work for earning livelihood. Manavsadhna crèche is identified as an answerto this very critical issue. The locally employed women serveas ‘nannies’ through the day to couple of dozen slum kids.The place functions as a day-care centre, play area, nursery school as well as community facility centre for bathing and personal hygiene of young children. It also has a provisionfor overnight stay of the volunteers. The place is essentially conceived as a traditional khadki – a residential precinct with closable courtyard to which all peripheral spaces open. The courtyard door, if open, makes the campus externally oriented to interface with street, while by choice, if shut, can make it introverted, yet outdoor space,where young children can safely play and rest without noise. Mothers get their privacy while breastfeeding. So it becomes a versatile place, where indoors spill outdoors and outdoors translate into an open room. Fully openable pivoted doors to the room mark inside to outside transition seamless. It also offers the choices of scale and type of spaces to adopt by activities, seasons or the time of the day. Room walls essentially are the retaining wall structures to the adjoining plot which occur at the higher levels. The roof’s flat plane,as terrace, becomes the natural extension of the ground at the upper level to neighbouring plot. Pyramidal translucent roof pavilion on the raised central slab becomes the stage 20

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 crèche the experimentation is done with the palette of waste material found from the other construction site. Someone’s waste becomes some one’s 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 PowerStation’s 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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