| Subject | College Project - Village Documentation |
| Session | 2019-20 |
| Year | 2nd |
| Date | 1st to 9th November, 2019 |
| Semester | 4th |
| Faculty | Subject Coordinator: Tejashree Lakras Faculty Team: Moushumi, Rashmil, Neha, Lakshmi |
| Location | Tattakodi Village, Karnataka |
Objectives of the Visit:
- To study and document the socio cultural life of villagers.
- To give students exposure of rural settings with respect to natural and artificial features
- To understand and analyse the landuse, circulation and social/ physical infrastructure of the village.
- To document and map the spatial arrangement of the village and understand the relationship between buoilt and unbuilt spaces.
- To document and analyse in detail the street architecture of vernacular heritage
- To document and analyse in detail the typology architecture with respect to construction techniques and materials.
- To identify the issues at tourism and rural people level
- To identify and propose the architectural solutions solving the socio cultural issues.
Summary of the Work:
The Rural documentation studio November 2019 aimed at inculcating research skills in semester 4 students by documenting and analysing the social and cultural aspects and vernacular architecture of village of Tattakodi from Badami region, Karnataka.
The village being located in the midst of Badami North and South hills faces the Badami caves and temples and the natural water body named as Agastya lake in its frontyard. The late 20th century, mixed community village have adopted Pure white lime washed mud houses style of architecture as part of their climate responsive strategy and socio cultural practice.
The village was documented with respect to several study parameters like natural landscape, landuse, circulation, social and physical infrastructure, socio cultural aspect, physical morphology, vernacular street and individual typology documentation.
The in depth study revealed lot of social and infrastructural issues faced by villagers like woman empowerment, lack of higher secondary schools and hospitals, lack of enough infrastructure for organic farming etc. The collective conclusions were drawn to understand and propose possible architectural solutions on identified project site for addressing social issues as part of Architectural design studio project.
