LITERATURE CASE

STUDY: INDIAN
FARMHOUSE

SUBMITTED BY:
POOJA AGRAWAL
VIVEK M JAIN
RISHAB CHOPDA
GAURAV NAHAR
NAIDU HOUSE
DETAILS
• CITY:  CHITTOOR DISTRICT, AP
• Area: 120 SQ.M (5 ACRES)
• Value: INR 420,000
• ARCHITECT: SRIRAM GANAPATH
( KSM CONSULTANTS PRIVATE
LIMITED)
PLAN OF THE HOUSE
SECTINAL VIEW
BRIEF OBJECTIVE
• The Naidu house is built on a 5 acre farm land for
a retired General who is now a serious farmer.
Located about 3 hours from Bangalore,
Palamaner boasts of fertile soil, very good quality
bricks and a hot climate.
• The low cost of the project with all its functional
design features, the airy openness of the house are
high points of the design.
A LITTLE ABOUT THE SITE
• Sited on the highest part of the farm land the
house was to be climatically comfortable, built on
a very low budget, designed to let in a lot of breeze
and to keep out farm snakes and rodents. The
primary ambient wind direction is South-East to
North-West. To harvest this wind, a pavilion,
inspired by a vernacular ventilation device
(kattrupandal ) was used. This pavilion,
traditionally found in coastal Tamil Nadu, works
like a simple funnel with the larger opening on the
windward side channelizing the ambient breeze
into the living spaces .
AIR CIRCULATION
• The wind pavilion forms the defining aspect
in the design. A linear plan form was
evolved with the pavilion on the windward
side. While the pavilion acts as a wind
catcher it also doubles as a high roofed
entrance porch. The wind pavilion covers
the entrance to the house in between a
mezzanine slab cuts through the space and
acts as a deck accessed from the terrace.
OPENINGS AND VENTILATION
• Three two foot square openings in this deck are
located over the living room thus allowing a flow
of breeze into the house. Owing to the conical
shape of the pavilion, the breeze is funnelled
through. The bedroom and its toilet and the
kitchens are straight walled rooms while the rest
of the house follows a flowing curved walled
profile. The roof structure of the majority of the
house has brick jack arches to reduce heat-gain in
the roof. The bed room and toilet have sloped filler
slab roofs.
SPACIAL ORGANISATION
• The living area, dining, kitchen and study
area flow from one to another. A
cantilevered staircase follow up the curved
study wall to the terrace. The curved study
wall has glass blocks fixed in the walls for
light. A number of vertical two foot wide
windows are distributed along the walls of
the house to facilitate air flow. On either
sides of the toilet are vertical slit windows
that provide for cross ventilation.
ATTRACTIVE FEATURES
• Three courses of brick works are projected to act
as self-shaders for the wall. A projected ledge all
around the house and a flowing water moat
prevent farm rodents and snakes from entering
the house. A stone covered verandah and a second
bed room with toilet form part of a future
expansion. The house, finished with a red oxide
IPS floor, was designed in exact modules of the
local bricks.
DESIGN AND CONCEPT
EVOLUTION
CONCLUSION
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