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Newari Architecture

This document discusses Newari architecture and provides details on: 1. Common plan types including courtyard houses, secondary courtyard houses, isolated single houses, and street-side houses. 2. Characteristics of Newari architecture like rectangular plans, uniform depth, vertically oriented structures. 3. Typical functional layouts with multiple floors serving different purposes. 4. Common architectural features like brick facades, wooden doors and windows, and stone foundations. 5. The current state of preservation with many structures modernized or damaged and a loss of original materials and techniques.

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Newari Architecture

This document discusses Newari architecture and provides details on: 1. Common plan types including courtyard houses, secondary courtyard houses, isolated single houses, and street-side houses. 2. Characteristics of Newari architecture like rectangular plans, uniform depth, vertically oriented structures. 3. Typical functional layouts with multiple floors serving different purposes. 4. Common architectural features like brick facades, wooden doors and windows, and stone foundations. 5. The current state of preservation with many structures modernized or damaged and a loss of original materials and techniques.

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NEWARI

ARCHITECTURE

SEMINAR
BRIEF REVISION THOUGHTS

Form Functional Layout

Current Scenario

Materials 1
PLAN TYPE

• Chukache: Courtyard House.

• Nani: Secondary Courtyard.

• Yakahche: Isolated single house.

• Pikhache: Street-side house.

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Source: Hist. Notes
CHARACTERSTICS

• Rectangular in plan,

• Uniform Depth around 6m.

• Length ranges from min 1.5m to 15 m.

• Vertically Orientated.

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Source: Hist. Notes
FUNCTIONAL LAYOUT
Baigah (Top floor):

Chvota (Second floor):

Matan (First floor):

Chhedi (Ground floor):

Typical Section
4
Source: Hist. Notes
Chhedi into two narrow rooms

Divided by either solid or GROUND & FIRST No toilet within the


light timber partitions FLOORS house are seen

In the first floor


three-latticed windows
are kept.

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Chvota used as living rooms.

Important
communication to Have large
SECOND FLOOR
the street. openings.

Its latticed window


shutters can be
opened and
closed.

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Attic under the Roof.

It has bhawacha , Kitchen, store


monkey opening. THIRD FLOOR worshipping place.

Chhajja projection
(Paakha) starts from here.

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GENERALLY-
3 & ½ Storey.

Not taller than the INITIALLY-


Pinnacle of the HEIGHT 2 & ½ Storey.
Temple.

CENTRAL CORE-
4 & ½ Storey.

5
Multi purpose space.

Microclimate
Paved area. THE COURTYARD
control.

Chaityas or
sometimes temple.

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FENESTRATIONS

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Source: Hist. Notes
FAÇADE TREATMENT

• Symmetry on central Axis.

• Richly carved doors and windows.

• Highly decorated cornice & brickworks.

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Source: spacesnepalblog.wordpress.com
MATERIALS

BRICK FACADE WOODEN DOORS & STONE FOUNDATION


WINDOWS
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CURRENT SCENERIO

• Preservation of Temples and Monuments only.

• Modernized or in Damaged state.

• Loss of original Materials & Techniques.


PRESERVED MONUMENT SUBZONE BY LAW:
• Limited to By laws only.

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Source: By laws 2064
CURRENT SCENERIO

PATAN DURBAR SQUARE

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KATHMANDU DURBAR SQUARE
Source: By laws 2064
CONCLUSION

• Quite Disappointing.

• Importance being lost by the day.

• No proper management.

• Look up for ways to revive.

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