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    The Khasi community of Meghalaya builds earthquake-resistant houses on raised platforms with thatch roofs and stone, mud, or thatch walls. The structural system uses post and beam timber frames with pillars buried into the ground and floor supports. These traditional house designs conform to modern building codes by being symmetrical with no sharp corners to avoid stress concentrations during earthquakes. Nails are not used, allowing seismic loads to dissipate through grooves and tongues. Roofs are made of light materials to limit fatalities from failures. The Bodo Kachari community practices the bari system of mixed farming to meet household needs. A typical homestead includes family houses, gardens, trees, livestock areas, and ponds alongside

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    The Khasi community of Meghalaya builds earthquake-resistant houses on raised platforms with thatch roofs and stone, mud, or thatch walls. The structural system uses post and beam timber frames with pillars buried into the ground and floor supports. These traditional house designs conform to modern building codes by being symmetrical with no sharp corners to avoid stress concentrations during earthquakes. Nails are not used, allowing seismic loads to dissipate through grooves and tongues. Roofs are made of light materials to limit fatalities from failures. The Bodo Kachari community practices the bari system of mixed farming to meet household needs. A typical homestead includes family houses, gardens, trees, livestock areas, and ponds alongside

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    The Khasi community of Meghalaya builds earthquake-resistant houses on raised platforms with thatch roofs and stone, mud, or thatch walls. The structural system uses post and beam timber frames with pillars buried into the ground and floor supports. These traditional house designs conform to modern building codes by being symmetrical with no sharp corners to avoid stress concentrations during earthquakes. Nails are not used, allowing seismic loads to dissipate through grooves and tongues. Roofs are made of light materials to limit fatalities from failures. The Bodo Kachari community practices the bari system of mixed farming to meet household needs. A typical homestead includes family houses, gardens, trees, livestock areas, and ponds alongside

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    Khasi Community of Meghalaya

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    The Khasi community of Meghalaya builds earthquake-resistant houses on raised platforms with thatch roofs and stone, mud, or thatch walls. The structural system uses post and beam timber frames with pillars buried into the ground and floor supports. These traditional house designs conform to modern building codes by being symmetrical with no sharp corners to avoid stress concentrations during earthquakes. Nails are not used, allowing seismic loads to dissipate through grooves and tongues. Roofs are made of light materials to limit fatalities from failures. The Bodo Kachari community practices the bari system of mixed farming to meet household needs. A typical homestead includes family houses, gardens, trees, livestock areas, and ponds alongside

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    KHASI COMMUNITY OF MEGHALAYA

    The khasi buildings are earthquake resistant. Basically, the traditional Khasi houses are
    built on raised platforms. The roofs are of thatch while the walls may be from materials
    such as stone masonry with lime mortars, lime rendered mud walls or thatch depending
    on prevailing weather conditions. Mud and stone walls are common in areas with heavy
    rainfalls. The structural system consists mainly of post and beam timber frames having
    pillars buried into the ground. The floor is supported at intervals by limestone or wooden
    pillars. Some of the characteristics of the traditional Khasi houses in Shillong that are in
    conformity with modern building code requirements include the fact that they are not
    usually built on hill tops and they have symmetrical oval shapes which are devoid of
    sharp corners, thereby avoiding stress concentrations which is a major source of failure at
    wall corners during earthquakes. Nails are not used in the constructions, and the grooves
    and tongues that are utilized allow for dissipation of seismic loads. The roofs are made of
    light materials so that fatalities from failed roofs are limited. Earthquake resistant features
    exist in traditional constructions in Shillong, which could be useful in building better
    earthquake resistant houses in modern times, especially for rural and urban poor
    settlements in earthquake prone countries.
    BODO KACHRI COMMUNITY
    The bari system of farming has evolved over the years in the Northeast India and has had
    great significance from the point of conservation, consumption and management of
    biodiversity. Bari’s connote an operational unit in which a number of crops including
    trees are grown with livestock, poultry and/ fish production for the purposes of meeting
    the basic requirements of the rural household. These are ubiquitous landscape
    components in a Thengal-Kachari’s home. The bari in such household lies alongside to
    the main household. A batchor or gate leads to the main house through a long footpath. A
    typical homestead comprises of extended family houses, vegetable and horticultural
    gardens, trees, bamboo shrubs, threshing grounds, livestock/poultry sheds, and ponds.
    ·0 The layout of the living room, kitchen, store house of different communities living in the
    plains and hills is different. Number of housing units also varies in both the sites. It is
    lesser in hills.Moreover the space used in the dwelling units in hills is lesser per person
    compared to that of by the plain dwellers.

    ·1 The layout of the living room, kitchen, store house of different communities living in the
    plains and hills is different. Number of housing units also varies in both the sites. It is
    lesser in hills.Moreover the space used in the dwelling units in hillsis lesser per person
    compared to that of by the plain dwellers.

    ·2 For example in the houses of Dimasa people, since temperature is high in plains, doors
    are kept parallel to each other for better air circulation. Such arrangement keeps the
    houses cool which are situated near river or in the windward side. There are only two
    doors in the house.They also keep a log of wood in front of the door as a symbol of
    restriction in accessing the house.Undoubtedly it is a part of their age old tradition.
    ·3 On the hills, to protect the house from severecold wind, they make a bamboo wall in the
    windward side which height is generally more than the house itself. Dimasa people keep
    provision for storage of food stuff, utensils and other equipments with bamboo
    and wood, just like in modern kitchens.

    ·4 On the hills, to protect the house from severe cold wind, they make a bamboo wall in the
    windward side which height is generally more than the house itself. Dimasa people keep
    provision for storage of food stuff, utensils and other equipments with bamboo
    and wood, just like in modern kitchens.

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