NANDHINI.R
PRATHYAKSHA
POTTERS COMMUNITY
The Potters community is located at the NorthWest end of the village. There are three kinds of houses found in the community and the housing pattern is clustered.
Potters Community Pottery Factory
SETTLEMENTS
Cluster- Most of the houses were found in clusters with space for pottery. Linear (kulalar street)- The only linear street of the community.
TYPOLOGY OF HOUSES
Kutcha house - can't withstand harsh weather. (Temporary)
Semi pucca semi permanent houses walls made up of bricks and roof made of temporary structure.
Pucca house can withstand harsh weather. (Permanent)
TYPOLOGY-1:
All houses have an attic and a separate work area. The attic is reached by an wooden ladder. The houses are elevated over a plinth of 0.6m. This was done due to the chance of flooding during rainy seasons.
TYPOLOGY-1:
Use of spaces based on the different times of the day: 1. During the mornings the kitchen and the work area are the most used. 2. In the afternoon, the living areas and the front verandah are the most used areas.
TYPOLOGY-1:
3. The storage space and the attic are used to store the pots before selling. 4. The most used space of the house is the Living area that also has a small pooja area and a bed for resting.
TYPOLOGY-2:
In this typology there is more of concentration of activity than flow of activities. The single living room is the most used space and there is a backyard that is used as a space for work. The front semi- permanent structure is used as a cooking space and also as the storage space.
TYPOLOGY-3:
The picture show the activities at the work space and the foyer of the house. There is a good street level interaction as the foyer space, in other words the steps of the foyer space is used as the meeting space for women who roll Beedi during the day {Post-noon}. The side space is the work space where the pottery is done. This is also used for most part of the day in addition to the living room that connects the house to the work area.
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