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    Hathigaon is an elephant village located in Amer, Rajasthan near the Amber Palace and Fort to provide housing for 100 elephants and their mahouts. The landscape had been damaged by sand quarrying so the design focused on rejuvenating the landscape by creating a series of water bodies to harvest rainwater, which is crucial in the desert climate. Housing units are organized in clusters situated away from the regenerated landscape areas. A central water body facilitates the important ritual of elephant bathing and bonding between mahouts and elephants.

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    Hathigaon is an elephant village located in Amer, Rajasthan near the Amber Palace and Fort to provide housing for 100 elephants and their mahouts. The landscape had been damaged by sand quarrying so the design focused on rejuvenating the landscape by creating a series of water bodies to harvest rainwater, which is crucial in the desert climate. Housing units are organized in clusters situated away from the regenerated landscape areas. A central water body facilitates the important ritual of elephant bathing and bonding between mahouts and elephants.

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    Hathigaon is an elephant village located in Amer, Rajasthan near the Amber Palace and Fort to provide housing for 100 elephants and their mahouts. The landscape had been damaged by sand quarrying so the design focused on rejuvenating the landscape by creating a series of water bodies to harvest rainwater, which is crucial in the desert climate. Housing units are organized in clusters situated away from the regenerated landscape areas. A central water body facilitates the important ritual of elephant bathing and bonding between mahouts and elephants.

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    Hathigaon

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    Shivani Iyengar
    Hathigaon is an elephant village located in Amer, Rajasthan near the Amber Palace and Fort to provide housing for 100 elephants and their mahouts. The landscape had been damaged by sand quarrying so the design focused on rejuvenating the landscape by creating a series of water bodies to harvest rainwater, which is crucial in the desert climate. Housing units are organized in clusters situated away from the regenerated landscape areas. A central water body facilitates the important ritual of elephant bathing and bonding between mahouts and elephants.

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    Hathigaon

    Amer, Hathi Gaon,


    Rajasthan

    A housing project for Mahouts (care-takers) and their


    elephants, Hathigaon (or elephant village) is situated
    at the foothill of the Amber Palace and Fort near
    Jaipur.
    LOCATION

    Hathigaon is located in Hathi gaon in Amer, Rajasthan

    CLIMATIC CONDITIONS PROGRAM


    The Climate is generally arid or semi-arid and features fairly hot The design brief was to create housing for 100
    temperatures over the year with extreme temperatures in both elephants and their mahouts. The landscape had
    summer and winter. been devastated by its use as a sand quarry by
    local sand suppliers. So there was a need to
    The cold weather commences early in October and comes to rejuvenate the landscape and to create a series
    an end in the middle of January. of water bodies to harvest the rain runoff, as this
    is the most crucial resource in the desert climate
    of Rajasthan.
    DESIGN APPROACH
    The design strategy first involved structuring the landscape
    that had been devastated by its use as a sand quarry by
    local sand suppliers, to create a series of water bodies to
    harvest the rain runoff, as this is the most crucial resource
    in the desert climate of Rajasthan. With the water
    resources in place, an extensive tree plantation program
    was carried out together with seeding the site to
    propagate local species.

    The housing units are organized in clusters and situated on


    portions of the site that are not used for the landscape
    regeneration. Courtyards and pavilions supplement the
    otherwise small spaces that are allocated in the budget for
    this essentially low-income housing project. The site
    planning thus employed a system of clusters to created
    The water body was a critical component of the design, as shared community space at different hierarchies to build a
    it also facilitated the bonding between the mahout and sense of community among the inhabitants.
    elephant, through the process of bathing – an important
    ritual both for the health of the elephant as well as their
    attachment to their keeper.

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