Semester 2, 2023Kodiyala Karenahalli, Doddaballapur talukGroup work

Karenahalli

Documenting a whole village, overlay by overlay, with my class.

Overlay map of Kodiyala Karenahalli's building heights: houses in hot pink and red strung along the village street among outlined tree crowns.

Our whole class documented an entire village, Kodiyala Karenahalli, about 2,600 people and mostly ragi farms. Built and unbuilt, kutcha and pakka, heights, house types, landmarks and trees, each one as its own overlay in its own colour. The college used it as the benchmark for documentation after us.

This was group work, so I'm not taking all the credit. I was in group 2, and we did site 2 and its street sections. After that we each designed something for the village, which was a good exercise in turning documentation into design.

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The village, in overlays

The whole class made these together.

Master roof plan of the village: every house.
Overlay.
Overlay: kacha.
Overlay: building heights - ground-only houses in pink.
Overlay: building typologies - residential in yellow.
Overlay: landmarks - shops.
Overlay: vegetation - coconut.
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Our site and its streets

My group's part: site 2 and its street sections, traced by hand with photos pinned on.

Site 2, documented by my group.
Elevation 2AA' and section 2BB' of the site-2 street.
Elevation 2CC' and section 2DD': sloping tiled roofs.
Elevation 2EE' and section 2FF': houses stepping down the slope.
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My own design, afterwards

My own design after the group study.
My ground floor plan at 1:100 in pencil: car parking.
'Understanding spaces through views': hand-drawn pen isometrics of my scheme.

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