Rethinking understanding of vernacular into contemporary architecture

Abstract

India ranks second with its largest population around the globe and are among the rapidly enlarging economies in the world and therefore our energy consumption is expected to surge significantly. Increased energy consumption will lead to more greenhouse gas emissions with serious repercussions on the environment. “Energy use” being the topmost contributor to global warming, an obvious way to alleviate climate change is to design low or no-energy use buildings. To do so, requires going back to the basics and scrutinize cautiously, the way in which the building design is optimized to minimise the potential for extreme energy use, as these vernacular architecture proves to be energy efficient and sustainable, although some of them are presently no longer functioning properly because of the change in the culture and environmental situations. Thus, the research aims to learn about the values, the importance of vernacular architecture and how one can still preserve those values and importance in the present time. What is the need of preserving the values from the past? Why is it needed in the present? How one can do that without imitation or without understanding the concern behind vernacular architecture. Considering the site in the Lalkhoti area of Jaipur. which is a Climate Change Resilient City, and is the area of of focus in the urban city limits which has an important influence of climate change on urban morphology impacting the ambient temperature which give rise to Urban Heat Island effect on these areas. So here there is an attempt to propose a Material Research Institute in an urban context on a large scale to explain how vernacular practises were beneficial and have positive impact on the environment with the backup of its principles being followed such that by preserving those parameters from the vernacular architecture into contemporary design in the current time, how these problems can be catered through architectural invention.