![]() ![]() ![]() the Net Zero Energy Architects should note that the passive designs were traditional used in the ancient architecture of India with respect to cooling with water and massive walls were good insulator of heat during he summers. These water were designed for fountains in the gardens and dropped along window openings to allow the wind to pass through creating a cool breeze into the courtyards. Water supply was secretly duct-ed underground to from the mountains for consumption at the Palaces. It was heavily guarded with one main entrance and with secret passages for Princely families to exit during wars. In most places there were a large central courtyard where royal functions took places, where guards paraded with the elephants and a place of ceremony for the Raj. The Royals(refereed to as the Raj) lived in huge palaces where their wives and nuclear family lived in. However some enclaves in Goa and Pondicheery had remarkable difference because of the Portuguese and French influences for a much longer period of time than rest if India. The houses in the North of India is not different from the houses in South neither were they any different form homes in the East – nor the West. or rather the British learn much words from the Indian culture( words such as shampoo, lantern, bungalow, cantonment, canoe, cyber,etc) India has been ruled by the British, Afghans moguls, that Indian house designs character has not been defined by these colonial master. ![]() It is hard to put in a nut shell that what and which constitutes Indian house design. ![]()
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