Traditional Building Facade Characteristics and its Transformations in South Tamilnadu, India
| International Journal of Civil Engineering |
| © 2023 by SSRG - IJCE Journal |
| Volume 10 Issue 11 |
| Year of Publication : 2023 |
| Authors : R. Mohanapriya, Kumudhavalli Sasidhar |
10.14445/23488352/IJCE-V10I11P102
How to Cite?
R. Mohanapriya, Kumudhavalli Sasidhar, "Traditional Building Facade Characteristics and its Transformations in South Tamilnadu, India," SSRG International Journal of Civil Engineering, vol. 10, no. 11, pp. 9-30, 2023. Crossref, https://doi.org/10.14445/23488352/IJCE-V10I11P102
Abstract:
The traditional neighbourhood appearances have been diminished by modifying external conventional building elements. The visual attributes and ideology like materials, decorations, texture, colours, openings and roofs have played a significant role in the South Tamilnadu region’s traditional images for investigating this research work. The major objective focuses on visual elements that have regulated the quality, visual ideology, aesthetic appearance, and significance which impact the traditional building façades and their transformations. Understanding through various researchers, synthesis of theories, definitions of conventional building facades, and definitions of transformation of building facades are collected through several peer-reviewed articles in the first component of the paper. The second component of the research paper examines the evaluation of collection through secondary data of articles from various pioneers in visual element characteristics and their transformations over the years in the South Tamilnadu context. The research also analyses the samples of 30 traditional house facade transformation typologies using one case of primary data collected at Tirunelveli district, the South town of Tamilnadu, in the third component of the paper. Based on the secondary data, the results and discussions have been understandable in influencing and establishing traditional building facade parameters such as form, shape, scale, proportion, decoration, texture, materials, colour, roofs and parapets, openings, doors and windows. Hence, this research aims to find better urban designers and planners with specific procedures and recommendations for the preservation and further improvement in the development of traditional building facades.
Keywords:
Façade visual facets, Visual elements, Transformations, Traditional building façade, Decoration and details.
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