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ASUN HAI Resarch Paper Vernacular

The document argues that vernacular architecture was highly sustainable and adapted to the local environment through the use of local materials, passive climate control strategies, and consideration of user needs. It aims to explore how principles of vernacular architecture, like natural ventilation and use of local resources, can be adapted in modern constructions to improve sustainability and thermal comfort. Case studies of vernacular structures from various regions will be examined to identify design principles that could inform eco-friendly architecture.

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ASUN HAI Resarch Paper Vernacular

The document argues that vernacular architecture was highly sustainable and adapted to the local environment through the use of local materials, passive climate control strategies, and consideration of user needs. It aims to explore how principles of vernacular architecture, like natural ventilation and use of local resources, can be adapted in modern constructions to improve sustainability and thermal comfort. Case studies of vernacular structures from various regions will be examined to identify design principles that could inform eco-friendly architecture.

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VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE IN MODERN CONSTRUCTIONS

1.1 INTRODUCTION

Vernacular architecture the simplest form of addressing human needs, is seemingly forgotten
in modern architecture. However, due to recent rises in energy costs, the trend has sensibly swung
the other way. Architects are embracing regionalism and cultural building traditions, given that these
structures have proven to be energy efficient and altogether sustainable. In this time of rapid
technological advancement and urbanization, there is still much to be learned from the traditional
knowledge of vernacular construction. These low-tech methods of creating housing which is
perfectly adapted to its locale are brilliant, for the reason that these are the principles which are
more often ignored by prevailing architects.

More on vernacular architecture after the break.

Vernacular architecture originated when mankind was forced to make use of the natural resources
around him, and provide himself shelter and comfort which is responsive to the climate, a shield
from the elements. It is a pure reaction to an individual person’s or society’s building needs, and has
allowed man, even before the architect, to construct shelter according to his circumstance. Such
simple traditions have long been regarded as backward, and have been replaced by half-digested,
largely inappropriate architectural values.

The humanistic desire to be culturally connected to ones surroundings is reflected in a harmonious


architecture, a typology which can be identified with a specific region. This sociologic facet of
architecture is present in a material, a color scheme, an architectural genre, a spatial language or
form that carries through the urban framework. The way human settlements are structured in
modernity has been vastly unsystematic; current architecture exists on a singular basis, unfocused
on the connectivity of a community as a whole.

Architecture is man’s primary instrument to modify energy. The humblest shelter provides a
degree of modification to the energy that surrounds us, acting as a filter or amplifier to sun, wind
and light.

In the pre-industrial era, it was taken for granted that architecture would act as an
environmental filters in ways that were in harmony with the context. Hence the solutions with a few
exceptions were largely
1.2 AIM

● Adaptation of vernacular architecture in modern Constructions in terms of_

● Vernacular architecture culminates through the appropriate use of local materials ,local
Technologies and local people .It is the outcome of the People's need at the time.

“Living in a state of comfort” being our main theme, to adopt this concept of natural ventilation for
achieving thermal comfort.

1.3 OBJECTIVE

● Vernacular architecture has evolved through trial and error method.

● Vernacular buildings and site planning depend on substantially experience


surrounding conditions and local materials.

● The continuity in Vernacular architecture is related to space and time inverse


structural typological functional and social issues.

● One can observe this continuity in form of materials ,Technologies ,planar and design
elements in contemporary structures.

● Modern architecture is have realised the significance of the simpler ecological


principles incorporated in Vernacular architecture and trying to adapt in modern in some
form. We find something new and different in in today's architectural phenomena. It's the
form of the atom to revoke cling traditions and Vernacular in to the modern era.

● With introduction to modern technologies and materials people are trying to adhere
to some principles from Vernacular architecture.

● The lessons learnt from sustainable architecture can facilitate in design of modern
structures ,which actually are against all ‘green ,principles designers can create a sustainable
environment by culminating traditional Vernacular with modern.

1.4 SCOPE OF WORK:

Objective of work being clear, anything is to be taken from vernacular architecture, it


provides a vital connection between humans and the environment. It re-establishes us in
our particular part of the world and forces us to think in terms of pure survival –
architecture before the architect. These structures present a climate-responsive approach
to dwelling and are natural and resource conscious solutions to a regional housing need.
The benefits of vernacular architecture have been realized throughout the large part of
history, diminished during the modern era, and are now making a return among green
architecture and architects. In order to progress in the future of architecture and
sustainable building, we must first gain knowledge of the past and employ these strategies
as a well-balanced, methodical whole to achieve optimum energy efficiency.It is the
condition felt by an individual when one is in harmony with the rest .comfort can be broadly
classified as

1. Biological comfort
2. Activity comfort
3. Socio-psychological comfort.

The quest for a deeper approach of contemporary architecture to nature sometimes conceals the
achievements of the past. Vernacular architecture is, by its definition, aim and structure, the most
integrated architectural form in communion with the environment. Two important traces of
vernacular architecture can be resources for contemporary architecture: the deep respect and
perfect communion with the natural environment the perfect relation and understanding of users
needs. The result of a complex balance between material, shape and natural context, vernacular
architecture could become an extremely useful model of inspiration for the present. From the
intimate and personal experience with the wooden and wattle and daub architecture of South
Eastern Europe, we noticed that the mentioned triad created very efficient eco-design outcomes
that could be used today as models to generate an architecture closer to nature. This paper will
describe a series of case studies of vernacular architecture from different zones of the Carpathians
and the Danube area, which could function as models for an eco-architecture model. Modern
perspectives on the mentioned values include a new approach of specialists and communities,
having as a purpose the understanding and integration of vernacular experiences and values in
today’s projects in order to enable architects to be an active part in plural-disciplinary teams, to
promote their responsibility to conserve and valorize built and landscape heritage and the re-use
and integration of existing buildings, technologies and skills in contemporary design. Keywords: clay,
adobe, wattle and daub, vernacular architecture, eco-architecture, education, cultural models.

MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY

● The first factor influencing the development of vernacular construction practices is related
to the availability of local building materials. In many areas ,the locally available resources have
governed the use of the following constituent materials for walls.

● Simple plans, load -bearing walls, use of nature materials for construction overall
,Vernacular architecture is a way of living.
RESEARCH ON VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE IN MODERN
CONSTRUCTIONS
DONE BY
AASHUN UR RAHMAN

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