URBAN HAAT

INTRODUCTION
Urban haat:
It is an ever-permanent fair for Crafts, Food and Cultural Activities.
The craftsmen from various areas and the cultural happenings provide a
panoramic view of richness and diversity of handicrafts and artifacts.
Haat:
Haat is a central place in where both buyers and seller meet to buy
and sell household and handmade products. This place is always full of activity.
The haat attracts buyer for better price as well as available options of many
sources .For a seller the availability of a common place with varied buyers is a
best place to be in. This unique experience has been transformed on the urban
haat.
The buyer can get the handmade items custom made as per his
requirement from the seller of his/her choice.
Society view:
Present days peoples mostly using nethaat.Nethaat is an interactive
online market place on the web to get buyers, sellers and admirers of arts, crafts
and designer items, gather together to interact.
But there are so many disadvantages on using nethaat. People cant
get any assurance for buying an original crafts products. While on delivery
those products can get damage. And there they cant get any custom made crafts
works there.
Using the urban haat customers allows interacting with the artists
and crafts man who made those products. It helps to people to know about the
culture were the products and origin of this.
Urban haat also provides traditional food kiosks and recreation
spaces in it. It may be a urban public space.
Urban haat a hub:

Market for arts and crafts products.

Tradition culture ashram.
Recreation public space.
Workshop for art and craftsmen
Tourists attraction space

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URBAN HAAT - INDIA
The culture of India is the way of life of the people in India.
India's languages, religions, dance, music, architecture, food, and customs differ
from place to place within the country. The Indian culture often labelled as an
amalgamation of several cultures, spans across the Indian subcontinent and has
been influenced by a history that is several millennia old. Many elements of
India's diverse cultures, such as Indian religions, yoga and Indian cuisine, have
had a profound impact across the world.
Modern art forms are impressive and attract more attention toward
them but they cannot match everlasting mark of culture and tradition
of a certain place as the rural arts and crafts.
These arts forms speak for themselves, and its the need of the hour to
keep the glory of past and encourage them. Especially in country like
India, which is filled with these cultural heritages and is passed on
from generations for thousands of years? But in recent times these
seems to be lost. Hence, this project will act as platform for artisans to
showcase their talent.
This will also help them economically, as these project are a part of
Govt. of Indias policy for setting up of permanent marketing
infrastructure to eliminate the middle agencies facilitating the artisans
to sell their products directly to the customers
The site of the haat is in mahabalipuram where tourists visit
from various places will get to see the diversity of India,
witness spectacular performances and also savour the Indian
food. It will provide workshops, theatres and galleries for
artisans to showcase and enhance their talents.

AIM
Design an urban haat in mahabalipuram to encourage arts and crafts.

OBJECTIVE
The main objective of this thesis would be to give tourists an
opportunity to witness rich Indian culture and heritage through art,
crafts, cuisines, etc. of different states.
Also to understand history, culture and architecture of India.
To study the relation between built and open spaces.

THRUST AREA
LIMITATION
SPACES NEEDS
STANDARDS
SCOPE
The project will be a medium scale involving study of
urban and rural contexts.
The project deals with circulation between different
activities and connection between open, semi-open and
closed spaces.
The project will be dealing with master planning,
landscaping and design of architectural form.
The topic will not be dealing with detailed cost analysis.
It will exclude technical detailing of services and
technologies used, sticking to the basics such as size,
orientation and energy generation details.
Limitations according to the site will also be considered,
if any.

CULTURE STUDY
INFERENCE OF CULTURE STUDY

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REASON FOR SITE SELECTION
LITERATURE STUDY
CASE STUDY
INFERENCE OF STUDY REPORT
SITE PROPOSAL
SITE DETAILS
ANALYSIS AND INFERENCES
REQUIERMENTS
DESIGN PROPOSAL