5. UNDERSTANDING THE SITE

UNDERSTANDING THE SITE.

DANDELI :

The proposal for the Siddi cultural center has been under discussion for a few months before the COVID-19 pandemic struck. The organisations involved were the Karnataka Cultural welfare Ministry, The siddi organization of welfare, INTACH and many of the similar kinds. Keeping a cultural center of this significance and scale in this area would definitely pull crowds of massive scale, Siddi and others. An unintentional bonus comes when we realize that Goa’s tourism is only a 2 hour bus ride away. Hence that can also pull in the crowd and cultures.

MACRO ANALYSIS MICRO ANALYSIS

India – State of Karnataka – Uttara Kannada – Dandeli – The Site

SITE ADDRESS : Nirmala Nagar, Dandeli, Karnataka –581325, INDIA.

LANDMARK : Bangur Nagar PU College

SITE AREA : 12.45 acres / 50000 sqm

LAND -USE : Public / Semi-Public

SITE CO-ORDINATES : 15°15'36.6"N 74°37'27.3"E

ROAD WIDTH OUTSIDE SITE : 6 m two way road with 2 m pavement on each side.

OWNERSHIP : Dandeli District Welfare Association

SECONDARY LANDMARKS : St. Joseph Church.

PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN OF SITE :

Photographs taken of the site from the eastern boundary with a college site.

Photographs taken of the site from the site showing views of the forest border.

SITE SURROUNDINGS : This includes geographical and man-made sites of importance.

In Clockwise order : Moulangi Ecological park (5.7km) , Old Dandeli bridge (4 km), St.Joseph Church (0.5 km), Dandelappa temple (2.3 km), Syntheri Rocks (2.4 km), Kali river (4.1 Km).

The site for the Siddi cultural heritage center has many famous landmarks of dandeli nearby. These include theabove examples and many more tourist destinations. The area of the site is around an area which is considered one edge of the city which is borderline forested. The other side of this site is residential in nature. Dandeli is a smaller town with a end-to-end length of 3.5 km at maximum. The city has staying accommodation for many people too with the city primarily being a tourist town. I feel this town has the capability of becoming much bigger thus expanding starting with the Siddi cultural center.

Theabove picture shows a picture of Dandelifrom a satellite view. This image shows the site (marked in yellow) with restect to the town of Dandeli. The site is as mentioned on one corner of Dandeli. The larger looking site at the south of this site is the Dandeli paper company which is the biggestemployer of this region. The other streams of income for Dandeli comes from purely modern tourism.

SITE MORPHOLOGY : Morphology of the site has been taken at four instances of uneven gaps. The first one is from 2011 through 2014, 2017 all the way till 2020.

2011 2014 2017 2020

Thusit can be concluded that the site has remained particularly untouched but since it is a government property, it is constantly maintained. But the areas around this site are government housing quarters and these structures were built somewhere around 2002 and thus not much change has happened to the areas around the site, but the rest of Dandeli has grown irrespective of the site.

SITE LAND-USE AND REGULATIONS TO ABIDE :

- According to the landuse map of Dandeliprovided by the UDA (Uttara Kannada Development authority), it is evident that the town was supposed to develop around the central spinal ‘Barchi

Road’. - But illegal unsolicited city growth has rendered this plan useless. So much so that the Barchi road has now submerged to half it’s expected size of 20m and has no ability to grown anymore. - According to the town and country planning department of Karnataka and the bye laws given by it, land of area above 5000 sqm needs to have a road setback of 7% of that side’s length. - Maximum ceiling permitted height is 3.6 m. - Occupant per load area of carpet area 100 sqm is 66 persons. - There are roads on all four sides according to the land use map.

TEMPORARY STRUCTURES EXISTING ON SITE : There exist a few unregulated and illpermissioned illegal structures like sheds on the site. These structures will have to be taken off before construction.

SITE CHARACTERISTICS :

Site Diagram showing dimensions, contours and altitudes.

Services provided around the site Accessibility and road hierarchy

View of the site section outside the site and adjacent roads too.

QUANTITATIVE SITE DATA :

Sources of noise around the site. Vegetation on site. (Acacia) Temporary structures on site.

From the above data we can infer that the main sources of noise that comes to the site are from the adjoining road and the far away Barchi Road. The man-made structures and sheds on site are only temporary and with a little government force, the people will be willing to remove it. The vegetation are a few wild shrubs, acacia trees and bushy thorny grass.

VEGETATION, SOIL AND GENERAL ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT OF THE SITE :

The soil can be described as derivatives of the most ancient metamorphic rocks in India, which are rich in iron and manganese. The soils of the district are basically divide into two distinct zones based on topography; the coastal alluvial soil and the upghat lateritic and granitic soils. Mixed lateritic soils are found in taluks of Supa, Haliyal and Mundgod, which contains certain patches of black soil as well. The lateritic soils are highly leached, reddish brown in colour, shallow to medium in depth and loamy in texture. These soils are found in the taluks of Karwar, Kumta, Honnavar, Bhatkal, Sirsi and Siddapur. Red loamy soils are also to some extent found in taluks of Supa, Mundgod and Haliyal. Red sandy loams are poor in water holding capacity, and are therefore well drained, and acidic. Such soils are

found in taluks of Sirsi, Yellapur, Karwar and Ankola. In the coastal taluks there are numerous patches of land which contain saline soil of light yellow or brownish colour. These lands are not quite suitable for cultivation.

The Western Ghats of Uttara Kannada district are known for their dense forests which cover about 80% of the area of the district. The total forest of Uttara Kannada is about 8,29,151 ha., and the per capita forest is about 0.77 ha.

The forests of Uttara Kannada can be classified into 3 categories based on density as Partially open forest ( 20 40% density), Medium density forest (40 80% density) and Closed forest (above 80% density). Based on this classification Uttara Kannada district has about 1388.89 km2 of partially open forest, 1646.16 km2 of medium density forest and 714.55 km2 of closed forest. Depending on phenological conditions and other ecological factors, the forests of Uttara Kannada are broadly divided into two types namely Moist and Dry types. The moist type may be sub divided into evergreen, semi evergreen and moist deciduous. The dry type can be divided into dry deciduous and thorny forest

The central part of Uttara Kannada is of the evergreen type as shown in Figure 9. They are composed of very tall trees, forming a very dense canopy and are many storied and impenetrable. The rainfall in this forest is as high as 4000-5000 mm. The semi evergreen forests are seen in pockets and often merges with the evergreen and the moist deciduous type. Therefore, distinguishing them is rather difficult.

Therefore, in conclusion, the landform of site in study is hilly, the crop pattern is paddy-pulses, the soil is loamy, the geomorphology is denudational hill, the forests are evergreen, the soil type is forest brown soil and the soil dept is more than a hundred centimeters.

SITE TOPOGRAPY AND PHYSICAL FEATUREANALYSIS:

Below is a three dimensional illustration showing the highest and owest point in the site. The highest point is at the center of the site with a difference of around 7 – 8 metres from the lowest point. The lowest points are toward the south and north ends specifically to the eastern front. In the contour maps that you have seen provided by me or going to be provided by me the differences between each level is always 1 metre or 1000 mm. The blue arrows that you see in the following image represents the stormwater draining out of the site. Since the site is in Dandeli, the siteexperiences heavy rainfall ecery year around 1000 mm rise. The ground waster is recharged very well and is always moist.

EASTERN SECTION THROUGH SITE.

WESTERN SECTION THROUGH SITE.

SOUTHERN SECTION THROUGH SITE.

NORTHERN SECTION THROUGH SITE.

This picture above illustrates how the topography plays an important role in the design process of the development project. The orientation of the buildings is also affected by how the wind affects the site. There are two underlying factors illustrated In the picture above, one is the wind direction and the other is the wind path. The sun arches towards the south on its journey from dawn to dusk and east to west. The picture above shows how that would affect a Given position on the site. The wind moves from the south west to the north east direction and back likewise in the reverse during the summer and latter during the winder months.

CLIMATIC ANALYSIS IN DANDELI: The Dandeli lies on 469m above sea level The climate here is tropical. When compared with winter, the summers have much more rainfall. This climate is considered to be Aw according to the Köppen-Geiger climate classification. The average temperature in Dandeli is 25.5 °C | 77.9 °F. The annual rainfall is 1990 mm | 78.3 inch.

The "mean daily maximum" shows the maximum temperature of an average day for every month for Dandeli. Likewise, "mean daily minimum" shows the average minimum temperature. Hot days and cold nights show the average of the hottest day and coldest night of each month of the last 30 years.

Wind speeds are not displayed per default, but can be enabled at the bottom of the graph. The precipitation chart is useful to plan for seasonal effects such as monsoon climate in India. Monthly precipitations above 150mm are mostly wet, below 30mm mostly dry. Note: Simulated precipitation amounts in tropical regions and complex terrain tend to be lower than local measurements.

The sun path diagram and the wind direction map :

The Precipitation days chart :