HOUSING AND

ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING
ASSIGNMENT - 01
SUBMITTED BY:
SUBMITTED TO: Ar. ABHISHEK JAIN Anjali dubey
Pooja
Priyanshi
Smriti
➢ ABOUT:

• Ahmedabad is the seventh largest metropolis in India and the largest city in the state of Gujarat.
According to Census 2011, it has a population of 5.5 million in the municipal limits and 6.3 million within
the urban agglomeration.

➢ GROWTH AND EVOLUTION OF AHMEDABAD

• The historic city of Ahmedabad, located in the western Indian state of Gujrat was founded in the surge of
Islamic

Fig. Evolution growth map of Ahmedabad city

➢ LAND-USE

• The core city area in Ahmedabad is dominated by commercial, mixed land-use and major residential areas
along the periphery. Several parcels of land under industrial zone are within close vicinity of the
residential areas within the city’s administrative boundary. This urban settlement pattern and work place
location has triggered a travel pattern with regular trips in both directions, from the periphery to city
centre and vice versa, during all through the day.

Fig. Growth strategies and comparison of DP 2002 & 2021

 Ahmedabad, like many other
cities in India is experiencing
a rapid rate of urbanization.
This unprecedented growth
is putting enormous
pressure on walled city.
Over a period of time ,
Ahmedabad has been
inflicted with many wounds
to its historic areas and the
city as a whole. This rapid
growth rate is likely to
perpetrate further damage
to the city if the trend of
intervention is allowed to
Fig. Overall growth map of Ahmedabad city continue.
FIG. CHRONOLOGY OF SHIFTS IN HOUSE TYPOLOGIES IN AHMEDABAD
➢ TYPES OF TYPOLOGIES IN AHMEDABAD ALONG WITH ITS TRACES
 POLS OF AHMEDABAD

o In 1872 there were 356 pols in the city

o A pol is a residential neighborhood with well defined
boundaries.
o There is an entrance through man gateway, a primary
ORDO
street, and secondary street along which a cluster of
houses adjoin
REVESHI
o Often there was a quadrangle, with a temple/ mosque ORDO

and well and there were common latrines at the PARSAL

HEARTH
entrances. PARSAL
CHOWK
o The pol has a defined area of jurisdiction spread over
WATER REVESHI
continues houses, binding the families under certain
rules and regulations, creating a sense of KHADKI CHOWK

belongingness among its habitant. KHADKI

OTLA
OTLA

TYPICAL POL DWELLING

➢ ROW HOUSES

• Keen to do housing, the architects, planners

discovered route through developers and not
institutions. Developers were vary of architects
notorious of cost over runs and design charges.
Objective was to give a house for the price of an
apartment in the proximity from the city centre.
WIDER PRIVATE
FRONTAGE PARKING
• One of a series of houses, often of similar or identical DEEP-SHALLOW
OPEN SPACE
COURTYARD

design, situated side by side and joined by common

walls, The row house form with the inward looking open-
space which has territorial behaviour of it own cluster
and a common community open space derieved from the MAIN ROAD
concept of an Ahmedabad 'pol' with the addition of
private open spaces at front and back was the main
feature of the houses. PRIMARY STREET

• Also, its fully paved or landscaped exterior spaces and

SECONDARY STREET/
other added ammenities like club house, swimming pool PARKING

GARDEN/FRONT
SPACE

SERIES OF HOUSES

BACKYARD

FIG. TYPICAL ARRANGEMENT OF ROW DWELLINGS

➢ BUNGALOWS
• With the expansion of the city and
elite class obtaining the sense of
status, richness and indiviuality with
time there was a tremendous shift
towards the western part of the city,
people obtained their private land and
the bugalow played a role in catering
their housing needs.
• Bungalow defines virtually any small to
medium home or plan built or designed
between 1900 and 1930 as a
bungalow. It's primary characteristic is
a relatively open, single story floor
plan. Considered a "type," It can be
any "style" that is, Craftsman or
Revival.
• A bungalow represented a modern,
progressive philosophy and lifestyle. • A feature of the well designed
They were simple and often vernacular,
they were peoples houses in the most
democratic sense.
• The style "bungalow" doesn't really
exist in the city. It is instead a type or
form of house. As such, there are a
few key characteristics that define a
bungalow.
o A large front porch.
o Horizontal orientation.
o An open floor plan.
• The bunglow continued
catering the needs with time
and hence the bunglow type
evolved. Lifestyles were more
formal, so entrance to a home
was more strictly guarded;
visitors waited in a reception MAIN
ROAD
room or front hall before being SECONDARY
admitted to the living room or STREET
sitting room. Private rooms PLOT
like bedrooms and bathrooms OPEN
were often on a second floor SPACE
BUILT
with addition of other rooms MASS
for ammenities.
bungalow was the cross-
ventilation in most rooms.
Most homes were designed to
maximize air flow throughout
the house which makes it
possible even now to live quite
comfortably in many bungalows
during the heat of the summer.