Haveli at Ahmedabad - an initiative for conversation and adaptive reuse
Estimated to be around 200 years old, Mangaldas ni Haveli is located in Khadia, the heart of the historic walled city of Ahmedabad. It originally belonged to a Nagar Brahmin family and is one of the finest examples of carved wooden architecture typical of that time.
- Pol houses is considered as a primary housing typology built for more than 300 years in the city of Ahmadabad. The pol settlement pattern has a rural origin prevalent in the villages of North Gujarat. Ahmadabad has a rich heritage of settlement patterns in its historic old town, which was populated by a large merchant community in various.
- Mangaldas ni Haveli II 17. Mangaldas ni Haveli I 18. Divecha ni Haveli 19. Patasha ni Pol 20. Fernandes Bridge (Book Market) 21. Doshiwada ni Pol and the Ashtapad Derasar 22. Ratan Pol (Cloth.
- Ahmedabad, known as ‘Mangaldas ni Haveli-1’, located in the Lakha Patel ni Pol of the Khadia area. It studies the front exterior ‘Surface’ of the house, as an urban threshold t hrough the.
- The haveli is a gem of the city’s 18th century architecture. The façade is embellished with superb carvings on stone walls and wooden columns. At the centre is a courtyard surrounded by a.
This project was an initiation for conserving and reusing old heritage houses in old city of Ahmedabad, for Abhay Mangaldas. 72by3 architects were responsible for detail documentation and preparation of damage report for first phase. For the second phase, several possibilities were proposed for restoration and adaptive reuse of the Haveli as a residency.
72by3 architects (November 2007)
Ujjval Panchal, Sanal Thathapuzha, Parag Mistry and Sejas Mistry
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Mangaldas Ni Haveli Architecture Drawings Pdf
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