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3. CASE-STUDIES

3.1 Chithambara villas, Karaikudi

The blend between extravagance and the Chettinad fashion fair works
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perfectly. The rooms are comfortable and roomy. This is often a perfectly

reestablished ancient domestic.
The design of settlement and house plan are context-sensitive, connected to a

complex network of water gathering that serves the complete town

community. The houses are all on an east-west hub, permitting shadows,
coolness, and breezes within. The dividers are made of brick and lime mortar,

and the rooftops are earthenware, coming about in a cool inside small scale

climate.
The spatial arranging takes after the infinite plan and the staying are

independent, with a negligible number of outside gets to. The different spaces

within the normal Chettinadu house are the taking after:
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The compound divider adjoining the front road (madhil suveru)

The central highlighted get to (nadaipaathai)

The lower cleared range and a raised stage (The keezh paththi )
Bookkeeper room (Kannakku pillai arai)

Men's unwinding room(Pattagasalai)

Two or three yards ('valavu', erandam kattu, mundram kattu )

to begin with of greater scale to conduct capacities and to celebrate
celebrations, moment of marginally bigger scale utilized for family exercises

and the third for the administrations like cooking, washing etc.-

Hallways encompassing patios (suttru paththi)

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