Kota, Rajasthan I Cablenagar Township 1967 “The Cablenagar Township, designed in 1967 but never built, was to be at the edge of the Rajasthan Desert using several ideas which ‘combined Corren's attitude to climate and materials. In such hot dry regions the courtyard has been an intelligent answer to the climate by ‘tapping cool overnight air providing hu- midity and comfore in the hot dry after= noon. The greatest source of heat, the roof, ‘has eadtonally been thick so thatthe heat= ing process takes longer to radiate into the rooms below. For reducing sun penetration to the rooms, the houses of the township are protected by a pergola which both shelters the unit and makes the roof a usable terrace. In addition to this the courtyard is used to ‘create internal volumes which open to the sky to generate convection currents (ain the Ramkrishna House). "The residences were designed as row houses with community spaces, a theme continued in the Previ Experimental Hows ing some two years later. The form was also clearly dictated by the use of materials in a load bearing structure comprised of parallel walls Locally available sandstone, quarried in rectangular blocks and fa labs 3.3 metres X04 metres x 0.1 metres, formed the bass of 33.3 metre module for the housing wit. ‘The stone was to be sed throughout creating a homogeneity in the units which varied in sie depending on the level of occupant, from workers to professionals and manager. zl ‘Typlal chcer yout sie pln‘Type G (Smallest house)