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DESERT RESORT Case Study

This document provides details about the Desert Resort in Mandawa, Rajasthan. The resort is located 1.4 km from Mandawa and uses locally sourced materials like mud bricks, thatch, and sandstone in its design. It consists of a cluster of 8 cottages representing local professions like farmers, weavers, and potters, with courtyards and pathways connecting them. The resort aims to combine modern amenities with the traditional architecture and materials of rural villages in the area.

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DESERT RESORT Case Study

This document provides details about the Desert Resort in Mandawa, Rajasthan. The resort is located 1.4 km from Mandawa and uses locally sourced materials like mud bricks, thatch, and sandstone in its design. It consists of a cluster of 8 cottages representing local professions like farmers, weavers, and potters, with courtyards and pathways connecting them. The resort aims to combine modern amenities with the traditional architecture and materials of rural villages in the area.

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1 DESERT RESORT ,MANDAWA, RAJASTHAN

14 MANDAA RESORT

ABOUT:

Location: Mukandgarh Raod, Mandawa Mandawa Bikaner highway, Mandawa-333704, Rajasthan.

Distance from Delhi Airport: 245 kms (approx.) Distance from Jaipur Airport: 180 kms (approx.)

Distance from Jaipur Railway Station: 196 km(approx). Distance from Mukundgarh railway station:
16 km(approx)

Distance from Mandawa: 1.4 kms (approx.)

Figure 27 DIRECTION

THE DESERT RESORT:

The Desert Resort at Mandawa is built a top a magnificent sand dune flanking the acres of desert
landscape. The desert resort, a unique and charming retreat, is a verdant oasisin the midst of stark
desert terrain that offers panoramic views of all around.

Figure 26 MANDAWA VIEW

DESIGN PHILOSOPHY

This resort indicates that it is within the realms of possibility to effectively combine modern creature
comforts with the very basic rural dwellings. The suites are designed in a cluster of buildings that
constitute one house and are grouped around a courtyard. These cluster then come together to
form the main villages street.

Fig 29 COTTAGES

Fige 20 POOL WITH CABANAS

MATERIALS:

In this project, mud was mainly used. Mud was not only cheaper but also the most appropriate both,
dimatically and aesthetically. Locally available materials were used for construction. For the
structures sun dried bricks where used.

the sun dried mud bricks for the walls were made on site.

local sandstone was used for door and window frames as well as brackets, lintels & roof slabs.
concentric circle with bamboo strips holding the straw together.Timber. thatched roof.stone slab
polished and paint. wooden door and windows. The Indigenous cooling system khas tatti window
unit system.
ZONING

F3 DESERT RESORT MANDAWA TOPOGRAPHY

The site is divided into two zones the built zone covering an area of 3 acres and the unbuilt zone
covering an area of 33 acres.
Figure 35 ZONNING OF RESORT

Figure 34 SITE DEVELOPMENT MANDAWA

Figure 36 SITE DEVELOPMENT MANDAWA

Figure 36 SITE PLAN OF MANDAWA


Figure 37 HUTS PLANS

DESIGN CONCEPT:

In this project, mud was mainly used. Mud was not only cheaper but also the most appropriate -
both, dimatically and aesthetically. Locally available materials were used for construction. The sun-
dried bricks came from the bed of a dried out fank, adjacent to the hillock. The thatch came from the
grass growing on the site itself, the stone for the foundations, sills, lintels brackets and roofing slabs
and other built in furniture came from Ragunathgarh (25 kms. away). The wooden lathe workers
from Laxmangarh were to make a peg and other small fixtures. The local village carpenters (Khatis)
were to put together and the carve them, the local masons were to build the structures, and the
women from the near by villages were to hand plaster and finish the wails with moldings, relief
work, embedded mirror work and also mould in mud elements, such as choolas, platforms, grain
bins a stores etc. and finally draw on the walls.

COTTAGES:
Figure 33 COTTAGES

The huts/cottages were actually supposed to form a cluster of 8 huts in which 2 huts are meant to
represent the farmers' huts, three weavers' huts and three potters hut. They are not placed in a row
nor do they share common walls. Each unit is a separate unit and unique and yet a part of the whole
cluster. Spaces have been created for social interaction. A chakki (stone flourmill) a grinding stone
etc. is embedded in the platform & steps outside the huts to indicate how people interact and
socialize in rural areas. The cottages are built on brick foundation. The walls, sleeping platform, etc
are made of brick plastered with mud and covered with cow-dung.Outside the walls and windows
are decorated with motifs painted.

Each hut is unique, what they all have in common are creature comforts provided which are a bit
incongruous with the surrounding. The walls have niches for old-lamps and very quaint mini-
windows even have wire mesh to prevent insects from invading the interiors. Windows provide light
as well as ventilation though they are small in size. Floors are plasters with cow-dung roofs of some
of the huts are thatched while others have stone slab roof which have been left without polish and
paint

Figure 29 COTTAGE PLAN

PLANNING AND SPATIAL ORGANISATION


The entry to the complex is through a gateway sort of cut-out from where one can see the cluster of
mud huts in the framework of a typical Shekhawati style gateway. The 3m. Wide pathway leads to
the huts. After one enters the entrance lobby, the reception and office is just adjacent to the main
entry from where visitors can easily access the restaurant, bar and the huts. Opposite the reception
is a lounge that sunk by 0.6 m and the corridor passes along the lobby overlooking it.

LANDSCAPE

All the pathways are paved in brick and are flanked by hedges 3'height on each side. No big trees are
seen in the resort due to poor soil conditions. Only old trees are present which give a feeling of being
sculpted. An open dining area presents a magnificent view of the landscape stretching ahead for
miles. Light fixtures are placed in the gardens & courtyards to sit and enjoy in night. A conical Obri
with thatched roof and small openings has been made as a landscape element to give a real effect of
a village.

Figure 40 LANDSCAPE AT MANDAWA

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