- Orientation and proper placement of a house with respect to sunlight, wind and rain allows inhabitants to enjoy nature. Factors like temperature, wind and humidity affect orientation. - When selecting a house, it is important to check lighting, air flow, and whether other buildings will block views or airflow. Aspect, prospect, privacy, circulation, roominess, and sanitation should also be considered. - Practical factors like future expandability, structural integrity, convenience, and minimization of doors and windows are important design considerations for houses.

1. SELECTION OF HOUSE
Dr. Deepa Swamy
Associate Professor
Govt Arts Girls College, Kota

2. ORIENTATION
• Orientation means placing so as to face East.
• Proper placement of component of building with respect to sun , wind and rain which enables the inmates to enjoy the
desirable feature of nature.
• Factor affecting orientation are:
• Temperature
• Wind
• Humidity

3. ORIENTATION
• Air and Lighting is something which will determine your living experience on daily basis. The flat you live in
should have good enough lighting (natural light) and proper air.
• Also you should check how the air flows from various angles. In my current flat, the way wind flows is
amazing.
• So when you look at property, check if some other buildings are blocking the air and lighting or not. Which
side the terrace or balcony faces and the view outside

4. ASPECT
• A room which receives light & air from particular direction is said to have ‘aspect’ of that direction.
Placement of different rooms of house in accordance with our activities at different hours of day.
• • Rooms should get enough sunlight and air, which gives, • Great environment
• • Comfort • etc •

5. PROSPECT
• Prospect is the view from outside of a house.
• The house should have a proper prospect so that it can give a feeling of cheerfulness to the people living in it.
• It should create a good impression on a person who views it from outside.
• It must also possess good qualities like comfort, cheerfulness, security, labour saving and modern outlook.
• For e.g. Small Projections or bay window can have a good out-look as well as helps in providing breeze, light and sunlight to the
room.

6. PRIVACY
• It is an important principle while planning a residential building.
Privacy can be maintained in ways: 1. External 2. Internal
• External Privacy • The privacy from sides can be secured by providing planned entrance and pathways. • This can
achieved by screening the front and rear entrance.
• Internal Privacy • Privacy in internal rooms can be easily obtain by proper planning of diff. areas and location of doors
and windows. • The shutter when opened should give the minimum view of room for an entering persons.

7. CIRCULATION
• • Circulation is movement within the premises and includes both horizontal and
vertical circulation.
• • Horizontal circulation ( room to room) • Passage • Corridors • Lobbies etc. •
• Vertical circulation (floor to floor) • Stairs

8. ROOMINESS
• • Roominess means getting maximum advantage from the minimum dimension of the room.
• • The effect of roominess depend on the relative dimension of length, width and height of room.
• • The shape and size of the room are also very important for roominess.
• A rectangular room has more roominess then square room in same area.

9. ELEGANCE
• Elegance is grand appearance of a building attained mainly owing to the elevation which in turn depends on the plan.
• It depends upon proper positioning/selection of doors, windows, balcony, roofs, staircase etc.
• For better elegance
• Selecting superior building material for facing as polished stone- granite, marble or mosaic.
• Providing projection like sunshades, balconies, porch with or without pergola opening.
• Providing bay window, corner window, etc.

10. SANITATION
• It includes providing light ,ventilation, cleanliness, water supply and sanitary amenities.
• For residential building window area should not less then 1/10th of floor area.

11. FLEXIBILITY AND ECONOMY
• •Flexibility means that a room which is planned for one function be used for other, if required. •
• Like study room may be planned for using guest room. Etc..
• Economy • The building should have minimum floor area with maximum utility.
• it will reduce cost of the building .hence, it will be economical. •
• Economy can achieved by:
• • Providing simple elevation.
• Reducing the storey height.
• Dispensing of porches, lobbies and balconies.

12. PRACTICAL CONSIDERATION
• • After the all fundamental some practical points should be additionally considered: • Provision for future extensions without
dismantling should be made while planning.
• • Strength, stability, convenience and comfort of occupants, should be the first consideration while planning.
• • As far as possible sizes of rooms should be kept large.
• Large room can be shortened by providing movable partition but smaller room cannot be enlarge easily.
• • The number of door and window should be minimum provisions for built in furniture at proper places are useful from point of
view of utility.

13. GOODWILL OF THE BUILDER AND OVERALL BRAND
•
Before you buy a Property, its important to have a look at the builder profile and his overall history.
• How many projects he has already delivered, How much delay was there, Go to the website of builder company and check
old projects and ongoing projects.
• Search on internet with the previous project name and you should be able to find some important information about it. See
what people are talking about the builder and property.

14. CONNECTIVITY TO YOUR WORK PLACE
• An important parameter to look at before buying a property is the distance between your workplace and the
property.
• Its something you have to deal with everyday.
• A property which is 3 km away from your workplace is very different from the property which is 12 km from your
workplace.
• Long Distance might mean inflated fuel cost, time lost in travelling and getting frustrated and burning out each
and every day for many years to come.

15. CONNECTIVITY TO SCHOOLS, HOSPITALS, TRANSPORT, MARKETS ETC
• You should check how far are schools, colleges, hospitals, markets , shopping places and bus/train
stations from the property.
• It should not happen that to save the money on property, but then spent on travelling your kids every
day to school.
• The access to other important places is also very important.

16. RESALE POTENTIAL IN FUTURE
• When we buy a property, we are attached to it thinking that we are going to live there for next few decades, but
no one known when you would be packing your bags again to move to some different location because of
various reasons.
• At that time, if you realize that the property was suitable for you, but not to someone else, its going to be very
bad situation.
• So you also have to think about the “resale” potential of property you buy.

17. RENTAL POTENTIAL
• A lot of times, people give their property on rent and move to some other location. At that time, if you
realise that the property is not that attractive from rental point of view, you will regret your decision.
• just keep it in mind and have a look at property from this view point only.
• If property is near colleges or centrally located, or close to commercial places, you will never find issues
finding people to rent your property.

18. AMENITIES OFFERED
• You should also check what kind of amenities are offered along with property.
• Things like club house, parking, lift, power backup, swimming pool, gym are some of the
amenities.

19. CONSTRUCTION QUALITY
• When you go to look at properties, check the construction quality.
• What we mean by it is check the walls, their overall look and feel, how is the finishing done, Does it look
premium or the paints look like as if it will come out very soon.
• Check the wiring, fitting, tiles quality etc.
• If its a under-construction project, the only option you have is to search on internet about the builder and its
past project experiences and what previous buyers are saying about it