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On A Random Day HILL ARCHITECTURE Revolving around the quiet reserve of the hills, it is the architecture that resiliently responds to the climate on the hills where the structures are allowed to rest in the lap of mountains and buildings cling to the terraces creating a setup befitting a picturesque frame. The vernacular architecture in the hills effectively survives on the fundamental materials locally available letting the architecture not overlook but surrender beautifully to the nature. Though merging, it still emerges. Swinging in architecture :  " This piece is based on a random architectural observation and how a simple façade could be thought provoking drawing the lines on hilly realms." A s I sit swinging under the partial shades of the Deodars, I am caught by a carved design on .   the wall parallel to the level of ventilating windows. Ventilating windows, high enough as I see them for a single storied residence. This floral attempt as I percei...

Resting in the rush of the gifted settlements by the river 'Ravi', the Lakshmi Narayan Temple Complex has been radiating sanctity over the 'Chambyals' since heaps of centuries. The Nagara style in which the temple has been achieved dates to the good old Indo-Aryan style of Orissa. While many of the attributed components of a typical Nagara style temple such as Ardhamandapa (Entrance Hall), Mandapa (Hall), Mahamandapa (Great Hall), Antarala (Vestibule) are observed to have been omitted, the Adhisthana (Base Platform), Urushringa (Secondary Tower), Garbhagriha (Inner Sanctum), Shikhara (Central Tower) are the constants. The wooden umbrella roof itself marks distinction holding the Amalaka (a stone disk) crowned with the Kalasha (Finial) on its top and responds to the local climatic behaviour. Floor communicates by adding kinds of ascends in the movement and likewise, the temples appear in a progression. LAKSHMI NARAYAN TEMPLE COMPLEX, CHAMBA What seize away the bli...