INDIA LIVES IN ITS VILLAGES
RURAL ARCHITECTURE
"India lives in its villages," said Gandhiji a long time ago. Like many other aspects about rural India, Rural Architecture remains an unspoken issue.
Among the vast, the impossible problems facing India is the acute shortage of rural houses. And like these problems let's just say population control, income redistribution, recurring floods and many more this one too has been measured many times, analyzed even more times and often redefined. But no solution appears for this matter. The solution will only begin to appear when precious resources are moved out of the high-return urban based consumer industries into production of housing components.
Photograph : Youth Ki Awaaz
"Architecture is an expression of values." It took me a long time to understand what values says Kumar Harsh. Somehow I happened to visit villages of Azamgarh, Uttar Pradesh. Architecture is everywhere, all around me, but 'values'? don't know about this after seeing the huge infrastructure, the shining glasses, the concrete columns, forts that particularly tells the story of influence, and power but not values. Then we see a space of thatched sloping roof of Palash leaves, standing on a structure of stem and sticks, walls of mud. So by all of this we see India holds a history of multiculturalist design and monumental projects. But the country is also home to incredible residential designs, vernacular architecture and rural architecture.
Photograph: TripSavy
But it is also urbanizing a lot. From mud houses to concrete and brick buildings. They are loosing its originality and vernacularity. In India, the study and scope of architecture - like many other fields of design and innovation stays limited to only city boundaries. Rural architecture of India is the only pure form of Indian architecture surviving. Like the walls not only create spaces but also reserves the memories of culture, traditions and values, and it is transferred to generations.
Photographed by: Kajal Prajapati
But today's youth architects are including villages and completely transform it into masterpieces
Like;
Tomoe Villas by Note Design, Alibag, India
The House cast in liquid stone by SPASM Design Architects, Khopoli, India
The Riparian House by Architecture BRIO, Karjat, India
And it has also become important because more kinds of services are reaching to rural areas i.e., roads, electricity and maybe gas pipelines in future.
Lastly we can start with architecture, it doesn't begin with intervention.
It begins with involvement.
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