Indian House Designs - House Plan Evolution In India And The Prospects

House plans, the world over have evolved necessarily as a function of regional
geographic patterns including the clima and allied temperature regimes of the region.
The geological eccentricities as also the availability of the parent building materials
are also counted as the intrinsic geographic attributes in determining the orientations
and designs of the houses. However, with the advent of capitalist cultures around the
world, the demand came to be influenced by the richness quotients of the society
and the phenomenon continues to be so! Indian house plans, guided by the same
parameters showed twin distinctness that were directed along the orientations of
fundamental rural society and the emergent urban landscapes. While the former was
governed, till the recent decades, by the intrinsic poverties, the latter showed
characteristic diversities and affluence!
The Discrepant Development
India primarily a rural landscape has seen the house plans development at a much
slower pace. The need orientations as for more elegant and iconic houses were
subdued on account of characteristically smaller land holdings due to heavy
demographic loads, particularly in the northern doabs! Indian house designs
therefore continued as simple and less e!pensive to be precise! The foreign
domination further worsened, rather ruined the rural prosperities thus slowing down
the evolution. The grasp of frontline house plans in the urban regions and centers
however assumed significant synergies in view of the process being cataly"ed by the
presence of prosperous households there. The cities of India rapidly grew out as
#ungles of concrete while many rural households still fancy a pucca house to dwell!
$arado! of course, but here to stay for some more time from now! It should be noted
that India has also produced architectural marvels that are loo%ed up as wonders!
The Dynamism Emerging!
Times have changed! India now stands transformed in to a resurgent and bris%
economy of fame and we are busy earning, adding our potential to the nation! &uch
dynamism has also brought with it some allied benefits that span over a diversified
matri! of human living and choices. The house construction activities as also buying
are on the high and the trends are e!ponential rather than ridden with any point's(
of infle!ion. The robust realty and construction sector in India is riding on the strong
domestic demand. The allied services of architect firms are also being actively
leveraged and they are coming out with architectural house plans that are
adorable and iconic in them. )ore elegant designs are now finding appeal in the
hinterlands and the city fringes are abu"" with novel architecture dimensions.
Architectural Novelties in Demand
*s for house plans, India has acquired limited yet potent parameters. While we still
find a resonant demand and appeal for the traditional vaastu services during basic
house designing, the demand for the novelties is fast pic%ing up! High end gentries
are more interested in sun roofs, wooden conservatories, +, elevations-protrusions
and many such architectural genres of age. We now see a spectrum emergent as
clear!