Earthquake resilience of Pol houses in Ahmedabad
4.2.2 Corner house typology – Kameshwar ni pol
Figure 29 Location of corner house typology, Source- (Modan, 2006)
The ‘corner house’ is the house which is located towards the end of the linear pol. Usually the size of the corner house is larger than the adjacent shared wall house typology. Here one of the parallel walls is not shared.
Plan - The house is a composite structure with brick masonry and timber structural members. Pol house is rectangular in plan with the length being almost 2 times the width. The chowk here is not connected to the main masonry walls, but off centered in plan, dividing the building into two halves. When the above floor plans are compared with the ground floor plan certain observations are evident; the mass of the structure reduces as the floor increases, the main columns are aligned with each other which ensures effective load transfer till the foundation, but unlike the shared walled typology wooden columns are not much present in the edge wall. Here the unsupported wall is thicker than the parallel masonry wall. The main structural
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