BUILDING APPRECIATION OF TRADITIONAL HOUSES IN MHOW

Abstract

Traditional architecture which define the culture and historical identity of building, even which mates us look back to the past. Some amazing valuable Heritage like this can be seen in MHOW too. MHOW is a British settlement where there is a wonderful confluence of British and Indian traditional architecture. But this building Heritage is now getting decrepit with time and it is outdated according to their modern functional requirement. Although traditional architecture in MHOW is accumulated experience of successive generation. But the modern building gives attention only to standards and rule, which do not suits to Indian culture and ignore the traditional spaces which is integration of socio culture norms. This research paper explore traditional MHOW residences, majorly focusing on those which are Indian traditional based. In order to gain a better understanding of the houses in the selected areas and there inhabitants this paper based on ethnographical study consists of observations, informal interviews, constructed questionnairies and architectural study for the houses specially elevations. The contribution of this study is to search for architecture deep knowledge of traditional residence form to encourage the designers to think about the residential architectural design as product of social culture norms. Key words :- Traditional, Culture, Historical identity, Socio-Culture, Ethnographical.