The document summarizes key architectural features of dwellings and public structures in the Indus Valley civilization site of Mohenjo-Daro. Many houses were double-storied with flat roofs, courtyards, and bathing areas connected to drainage systems. A notable public structure was the Great Bath, with separate pools for men and women. Other public structures included well-built roads intersecting at right angles, grain storage buildings, and an assembly hall with thick walls and twenty baked brick pillars.

1. Architecture & City Planning

2. HIMMAT PRITAM
JAYDIP VISHNU
NIDHI HONEY
YASHVI

3. Indus
Valley

7. Many of the houses were double
storeyed, had flat roofs. They were
of different sizes. Some were like
palaces while other were like small
rooms. They were made of baked
bricks of very good quality. An
average house had a courtyard
surrounded by rooms, a bathroom, a
kitchen and a well. A narrow
staircase led to the rooms upstairs.
DWELLING HOUSES

8. The earliest example of a public bathhouse is the “Great
Bath” of Mohenjo-Daro. It had separate pools for both the
genders.
REAT BATH OF MOHENJO-DARO

9. Almost every house unit at
Mohenjo-daro was equipped
with a private bathing area
with drains to take the dirty
water out into a larger drain
that emptied into a sewage
drain.

10. Brick-lined drains flushed by water carried liquid and solid waste
from houses to sumps, where it was carted away, probably to fertilize
nearby fields.
DRAINAGE
SYSTEM

11. Near the warehouse, also on a
high plinth, is the upper town or
acropolis which spans 128 by 61
meters and has extensive
drainage systems.

12. Private wells were rebuilt over many generations to serve
the needs of a large household or neighborhood.
WEL
LS

13. This well in DK G area at
Mohenjo-daro stands like a
chimney because all of the
surrounding earth has
been removed by
excavation.

14. STREE
TS

15. All of the roads were
built with burnt bricks,
with each brick's length
being four times its height
and its breadth being two
times its height. Straight
streets connected at right
angles.

16. Public storage of grain was common. Each
family appears to have had its own room.
GRANA
RY

17. A massive baked brick
revetment wall surrounds the
solid mud-brick foundation
platform of the "granary" that
measures approximately 51
meters north-south and 41 meters
east-west.

18. The Assembly Hall was another striking building found in Mohenjo-daro.
It was a pillared hall with thick walls and twenty pillars made of burnt or
bakes bricks. This may have been an assembly hall, a prayer hall or a
palace.
ASSEMBLY
HALL

19. Close-up view of the pillared
hall, which may have been a
hall of assembly with paved
walkways and places for people
to sit in ordered rows along each
aisle between massive brick
pillars.

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