THE GRAMMAR OF A VAASTU
BASED ‘NAALUKETTU’ (TRADITIONAL DWELLING IN KERALA)
STRUCTURE OF
PRESENTATION
• GRAPHIC DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING
TO BE ANALYSED (CASE STUDY)
• A VERY BRIEF GLIMPSE OF THE BASIC
RULES OF VAASTU AS FOLLOWED IN THE
CASE STUDY
• RULES FOLLOWED IN SHAPE GRAMMAR
• ANALYSIS OF THE HOUSE-2D AND 3D
• INFERENCES AND CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES
THE
‘NAALUKETTU’ (‘PADINJAREDATH
MANA’
IN CHERPU,
KOLLAM)
A FEW PRINCIPLES
• THE BASIC CONFIGURATION OF BLOCKS IN COURTYARD FORMAT WAS USED AS A MODULE AND PERFECTED AS A UNIFIED SPATIAL AND STRUCTURAL SYSTEM ADAPTED TO CLIMATIC AND SOCIO CULTURAL CONDITIONS.
• THE ENERGY FIELD-’MANDALA’- COMPRISING GRIDS, DIAGONALS AND NODES FORMED THE BUILDING CODE FOR SPATIAL PLANNING, PROPORTIONS, DOORS AND WINDOW POSITIONS AND FUNCTIONAL LAYOUT IN TRADITIONAL DOMESTIC ARCHITECTURE.
EXAMPLES
A FEW PRINCIPLES
• LARGEST SQUARE AREA IN PLOT DEMARCATED
• THROUGH THE APPROXIMATE CENTER, E-W AND N-S AXES MARKED
• (IN THE CASE OF LARGE PLOTS, THERE ARE PRINCIPLES OF PAADAVINYASAM AND VEEDHIVINYASAM TO CHOOSE THE HOUSE LOCATION OR GRIHAMANDALA. THOSE DETAILS ARE NOT IN THE SCOPE OF THIS STUDY).
• THE ORIENTATION OF THE HOUSE IS DECIDED BASED ON ‘YONI’- THE REMAINDER OBTAINED IN PERIMETER OF HOUSEX3/8. IF REMAINDER IS 1, ORIENTATION TOWARDS EAST, 2-SE, 3-SOUTH ETC. ODD YONIS ONLY ARE AUSPICIOUS-PERIMETER ADJUSTED TO GET ODD YONIS.
• BASED ON THE RIGID PRINCIPLES, IN FACT, A WIDE RANGE OF BUILDING DESIGNS CAN BE DONE. IN THIS STUDY, ONLY ONE EXAMPLE OF A NAALUKETTU IS BEING CONSIDERED.
• FROM EKASALA-THE SMALLEST BASIC
DWELLING UNIT- TO CHATURSALA-
THE NAALUKETTU.
DECIDING THE SIZE OF
COURTYARD
GRAMMAR OF PADINJAREDATH MANA
• THE CENTRAL COURTYARD IS THE GENERATOR OF THE
FORM. IT IS MARKED AS THE INITIAL SHAPE.
RULE A
RULE B
RULE C
A
RULE D
RULE E
RULE F
RULE G
APPLICATION OF RULE C
RULE H
RULE I
APPLYING RULE E AND F
APPLYING RULE E AND F
APPLYING RULE D
APPLYING RULE I
EXAMPLE
RULE-1
RULE-2
RULE-2 MIRROR
RULE-3
APPLICATION OF RULES 1-3
RULE-4
RULE-4 WITH ROTATION
RULE-5
RULE-6 MIRRORING
RULE-7
RULE-8
RULE-9
RULE 10, COMBINING RULE-2
RULE 11
APPLYING RULE 2,2MIRROR,5,6,7,8,10 AND 11
RULE 12
PRINCIPLE OF
ROOF
STRUCTURE
PRINCIPLE OF
ROOF
STRUCTURE
RULE 13
RULE 14
RULE 15
RULE 16
RULE 17
RULE 18