stone houses in hill architecture

1. STONE USE AS BUILDING
MATERIAL IN INDIA
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SUBMITTED BY :- PRIYANKA SAGAR
1542018

2. HILL STATION IN INDIA WHERE WE MOSTY FIND
THE STONE CONSTRUCTION
STONE CONSTRUTION

3. STONE
 THE STONES WHICH ARE SUITABLE FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE
STRUCTURES SUCH AS RETAINING WALLS, ABUTMENT, DAMS, BARRAGES, ROADS
ETC ARE KNOWN AS BUILDING STONES.
 BUILDING STONES SHOULD POSSESS ENOUGH STRENGTH AND DURABILITY.
 STONES HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED AS ONE OF THE POPULAR BUILDING MATERIAL
FROM THE OLDEN DAYS DUE TO THEIR AVAILABILITY IN ABUNDANCE FROM THE
NATURAL ROCKS.

4. STONE CONSTRUCTIONIS USED IN WHICH AREA

5. Hilly Stone
 Hilly Stone is the most common material used in
construction work. Since the temperature in this area falls
below freezing in winter and 25 degree is not common in
the Hot months.
 Stone is also the most common material for wall and
exterior paving and also used as roof cladding.
 A typical dwelling has a foundation of builders laid in mud
mortar.
 Stone wall, half meter thick has few openings set in from
the corners.

6. WHY STONE IS USE IN HILLY AREA
 Stone have good thermal response
 Easley available
 Hills are more likely to be rocky and easier to find stone on or about and as the
its hard work carrying materials up hills.
 Stone is more durable

7. Wall (Wood-and-stone walls) The walls are constructed with alternate
courses of dry masonry and wood without any cementing mortar.
Kath-khuni
In the khath – khunni there is use of stone for the basic construction

8. Typical Kath-khuni wall junction
Detail showing layering of wood and stone including a
truncated pyramid shaped corner stone to protect the wood

9. Dry masonry wood-and-stone wall of a temple construction in
Devidhar .

12. A TRANQUIL HAMLET, KULLU (Kath-khuni )

13. Roof
The slate stones also
weighs down the
structure against strong
winds.

14. DHAJJI WALL
 The term dhajji dewari is thought to be derived from a Persian word meaning
“patchwork quilt wall” and is a traditional building type found in the western
Himalayas.
 It is a straightforward construction technology that can be easily built using
local materials; timber and stone masonry infill with mud mortar and .

15. Friction breaks down the energy
 When a frame is deformed,
the stones of the infill have
to move away.
 When the stones and the
boards have to move, they
rasp against each other.
 This friction dissipates
energy

16. Stone foundation dhajji wall

17. CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUE IN KATH- KHUNNI
AND DHAJJI WALL

18. GST FARM HOUSE , TANANF , SANGLI
BUILDING MADE WITH DRESSED STONE AND NON-DRESSED IS USE IN
THE FRONT FAÇADE WORK

19. AFFORDABLE GREEN AN OFFICE BUILDING AR-
PARMOD CHAUGULE MADE WITH DRESSED STONE

20. NEPAL HOTEL

21. Katinpur temple house , Nepal