DIFFERENT INCOME GROUP AND TYPOLOGIES OF HOUSES ACCORDINGLY

FIG 13 : HOUSE ORIENTATION ACCORDING TO NORTH

• Compactly EAST built, the city has many tall buildings, up to seven stories high, giving it a fairly dense and vertical effect. • The city structuring manifests itself in two strong ways: the location of the Royal

Quarters on top of the hill with the strong fortification and secondly the dispersal of communities is affected by caste groupings making distinct residential zones of different communities. • There is little evidence of class distinction which is evident from the manner in which some of the houses of the rich and the poor are dispersed in both the upper and the lower cities. • The spaces acquire nonspecific character. They change in their use as the morning changes to noon and the noon changes to evening. They are also used differently in have special significance under such situations. • The whole idea of a house in Jaisalmer is developed around the idea of 'privacy'.

TYPOLOGIES OF HOUSING PATTERN IN JAISALMER:

FIG 14 : MARKING OF RESIDENTIAL AREAS