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POL HOUSE
Mapping And Documentation
Monsoon ‘19
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Academic project
Typology : Traditional Pol House
Site : Old walled city, Ahmedabad
This course on architectural tectonics included documentation of a load-bearing wood and brick composite house in the old walled city area of the UNESCO World Heritage City of Ahmedabad.
This particular house located in the narrow alleyways of Mandvi ni pol is about 110 years old and was constructed with wood from Burma (Myanmar) and Bali (Indonesia), lime plaster and colonial-era flat bricks. This typology of houses is called Pol houses which are local to the western state of Gujarat, India and has an open-tosky courtyard in the middle with a water tank underneath to cool the house during the harsh summers of Ahmedabad.
First Floor Plan at 3.05 m
Scale 1:50
Reflected Ceiling Plan at 3.05 m
Scale 1:50
