Construction Technology and Material Gol Ghar
Amit Pokhrel 11/29/2012
Pokhara---Golghar concept and their living style
Every tradition and culture of the community contains legends and ethos that provides sufficient evolutionary bases that particular tribe or community.
In nepali language , the gurung house is called as “Gol ghar�, or we can say it round house too.culturally importance and historically important and reffered as a good concept of designing the house with construction techniques and material used Gurung consider themselves as the descendent of king Gochan of the surya dynasty. some of their tradition and cultural importance figure are enlisted below
At earlier days , the Gol-ghar was like above condition
Thyaka
Dokung
Jong-drung
Tofu-futah
Soib
The material used in making house are mud-clay, wood/timber, stone, paraal ra cow dung mix gari banaaeko ra clay mix gari potne kaam gareko paaieko cha, sangsangai tesma use bhaeko material khar ko chaano , ahile katai cgi sheets pani prayog gariako cha, hawa hundari ko kaaran le garda pani,. chipledhunga maa raheko gol ghar maa—roof pattern maa cgi sheets raakhieko cha, climate le garda, ra tyaha ko gol ghar yesto cha Gol-ghar also called Gurung House or Tamu, is an unique and a form of planning.a house in traditional style which shows some posture with different texture of Architecture, which was mostly used from earlier days in Nepal but in the way of eradication. This kinds of structures are rare in Nepal, nowadays. Gurungs of different castes or religion are interested on past days to build this kind of houses in their community due to its uniqueness and a new pattern of house setting and which also prove them, that they are different in building housing concept from another community. Due to little knowledge and not knowing the importance of their home, today we see rare gol-ghar in Nepal, which became unlucky to share the historical, cultural and archaeological kind of houses, which are here in Nepal, which shows the most cultural aspect of Gurung tribe and their community. Features of Gol-ghar
It is oval-shaped
Unique pattern of making this kinds of structures
Traditional Gurung house, but not so strong to hold pressure
The boundary of gol-ghar has the space of living, cooking, bed-room, bahiri verandaha, aangan and tabela(bhaisi ya cow paalne thau)
Over-hanging roof, mostly used, but due to climatic pressure, now a days CGI sheets are also used in some house found.
Found mostly in rural areas of Nepal
Locally available materials are used to build this kind of houses like-mud, clay, stone, choya or khar, bamboo, wood and thatch, etc.
wall plastered with mud mortar at inner and outer wall(bhitra ra bahira ko dewallmaa)
wall plaster is coated with white soil and the base band with red mud
The supporting members like “Tham, beam, joists, frames of doors and windows are of locally availavle wood.
Most part of the house were built by Timber
Storey classification The 1st storey is used for general purpose as gurungs used that for living, kitchen, and for bedroom use and similarly the 2nd storey are made for storing seeds, grains and storage for their utensils and aujaars. building are of traditional one, that’s why majority doors and window frame are adjusted by wooden locks. Internal structures
Kitchen (Bhansa)
Kitchen rack
Stairs
Ageno
Bed-room
Store
The construction techniques used for this kind of structures includes the following o
use of mud-mortar
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red soil-rato mato and white soil
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wooden maximum
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khar ko chaano/cgi sheets
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stone for foundation and sub-structure level (bahira ko verandaha ra sidi ko tallo portionma pani use huncha)
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gobar le potne verandahama, wall maa rato maato
Gol-ghar concept has a strong meaning. gurungs has their far better sight for the living concept and sustaining it from a serious factor which includes a natural threat “Earthquake” The round house has a shape such to resist earthquake, so it is mostly found in the hazard prone area, in the upper portion from the sea-level The structure is more resistance in earthquake factors due to its shape and size and structurally sound. due to its round, the people living in that house can intereact with sun lights to feel warm and take advantages over it, especially when there is a child birth in home, the child get more vitamin d from sun. at past days, people dont know how to earn money and due to illiteracy, and poor concept in designing, people use the living pattern style and made golghar for living only, mostly people are dependent on agriculture and they made such kind of home ,where they can store large number of their grains and vegetables in that pattern.
there are some factors to be considered while designing the house concept and inner part of the room. measurement were taken by us and detail arrangement were made for planning and on the way of palpa , another just like a gol ghar type house were found near dobhan, kusum khola*on the way*