Housing at Badami 04

Mentors: Prof. Kukke Subramanyan

Asst. Prof. Julieann Tharakan

Prof. Anand Prakash

Prof. Srinivas S G

Assoc. Prof. BL Manjunath

Prof. Anand Chalawadi

A housing for people interested in learning through travelling and exploring. more often than not one ends up in situations where we stay longer than intended. Sometimes these places lack facilities to comfortably accommodate such changes in the mundane fabric of the place. And in areas where such facilities exist, they either end up being buildings hardly emphasizing on dwelling or they become cultural islands themselves.

Badami, is a small town located in the Northern Karnataka, it has great historic relevance, the Hindu and Jain caves are recognised world-wide and protected.

The demographics of the city suggest that agriculture is a major occupation, the major floating population of the city consists of Historians, photographers, Students, Travel enthusiasts and some percentage of Piligrims, these people also come within our focus group.

To cater to this wide variety of people, the housing had to be flexible to accomadate varying time frames of stay and numver of occupants. To ensure this happens the following types of houses were provided.

60 sqm houses

90 sqm houses

120 sqm houses

Studio Apartment Facilities

Dormitory Faciliy

These various Diagrams were based on an understanding between public, private, the in - between and a circulation through these varios spaces.

Design Development

The various blocks were diagrammed based on their entry points, balcony access, service ducts.

They were arranged to optimize Views, entrances and ducts.

Clusters of these blocks were arranged together.