HOUSE TYPOLOGY

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 POL
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 A POL in India is a housing cluster which comprises
many families of a particular group, linked by caste ,
profession, or religion. Pols are typical of urban
centers in Gujarat especially of Old Ahmedabad.
 The word pol is derived from the Sanskrit word
PRATOLI meaning entrance to an enclosed area.
 POLS were originally made as a protection measure
when communal riots necessitated greater security.
CHARACTERISTICS OF
POL HOUSE
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• OTLA - entrance platform
• KHADKEE
• CHOWK – courtyard
• PARSAL – the verandah
space around the court
• BAITHAK – the formal
reception space
• ORDA – central hall
• PANIYARA – for storing
water and grain
• CHABUTRO –bird feeder
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• Wood and stone used as

materials for construction-helps
in maintain the comfort level
inside the house .
• Use of JAALI provides
protection from hot window.
 The pole settlement pattern has a rural origin prevalent in
the villages of north Gujarat. Its also called KHADKEE
TYPE OF SETTLEMENT.

 Each house is joined to the next by a common party wall

and many such houses from a row opposite it and two
rows thus enclose a space in front. Which resembles a
street but which is in fact, a common yard.

 In order to ensure privacy and security the ends of the

common yard are closed off by a wall on one side and a
gateway on the other. The rear walls of all the houses
which are have no window from a continues line.
 One enclosing wall is simultaneously the rear wall of a
house. With the ends enclosed off , the settlement forms a
closed unit guarded by a single gateway used by a large
number of families. The gateway known as KHADKEE .
 All the families of khadkee are blood reations or belong to
the same caste.
 Every village has a number of such khadkees belonging to
the same caste.
 WADA
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 The traditional residence in Maharashtra was called
WADA.
 A Wada was typically large building of two storey
with groups of rooms arranged around open
courtyards.
 Two types of Wadas .
- Mostly for the middle class families
- Mostly owned by the richer class
 House and its main entrance are oriented towards the east.
 Two storied structure with court abutting the street.
 The streets and roads in the settlement were narrow.
 Roads were never straight as the growth of the settlement
was organic.
 The plots for construction of wadas were rectangular and
lay right next to the street.
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 CONSTRUCTION
MATERIAL
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 Wooden frame structure
 High basalt stone plinth
 Thick brick infill walls
 Arched entrance constructed out of bricks
 ZONING
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 The most significant features of the wada was the way
zoning of public, private, and semi-private spaces was
done.
 This can be very distinctly in the plan.
PUBLIC SEMI-PRIVATE PRIVATE
-OFFICE(GROUND FLOOR) -SITTING ROOM -ROOMS USED BY
-DEVADI-GUARDHOUSE -STORE FOR WEAPONS EXCLUSIVELY BY THE
-CATTLE SHED -ROOMS UESD BY THE FAMILY
-FIRST COURTYARD PEOPLE WHO PERFORM
DURBAR(1ST FLOOR) IN THE DURBAR
 CHAWL
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 The CHAWL is a name for a type of residential
building found in Northern part of India . Typically,
housing units in chawls are availed of by relatively
poor but gainfully employed working-class families.
Chawls were constructed in abundance during the
early 1900s, in the textile mill areas of Mumbai, and
indeed this is how they originated, to provide cost-
effective housing to mill-workers in Mumbai. They
were later built by working-class emigrants working
in other manufacturing industries also. This type of
housing is no longer built, but remaining structures
are still in demand because of their relatively
affordable rents.
 Families on a floor have to share a common block
of latrines, each block containing typically 4 to 5 latrines.
Tenements with private bathrooms are highly sought after
and may cost a premium. Typically they may be available
for 50% over the price of a normal chawl.
 built, but remaining structures are still in demand because
of their relatively affordable rents.
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