TRANSFORMING TRADITIONAL TRANSITIONAL ELEMENTS OF WADA: A CASE STUDY

Abstract

Architecture is an unusual blend of persistence and flux. Architecture is an incorporation of element since past or invented or reinvented recently. The character and style of architecture vary with respect to time and place, but elements constitute the basic identifiable parts of built environment. This study investigates how traditional elements have been integrated in contemporary architecture. The paper examines the concepts behind the continuity of characteristic elements from traditional to contemporary architecture. For that literature review of traditional architecture, visual ethnography   and case study method have been employed. This paper examines the main characteristic transitional elements of the Wada, a traditional residential typology of Maharashtra, and investigates their integration into the design of contemporary houses in Pune. A table is being provided to evaluate the utilization of design concepts of the traditional spatial elements in Wada and Contemporary Case. The three traditional transitional elements: courtyard, threshold as an entrance, windows have been empirically checked in the contemporary context of Pune in India by employing qualitative intrinsic case study. Attempt has been made to understand the intangibility of tangible elements. It has been found that using traditional elements does not mean repeating it the same way, but applying character considering today’s contexts.