SITE ANALYSIS Designing the

School of Architecture
GROUP SEM VII YEAR IV
SOA IPS ACADEMY, INDORE
LOCATION

Our site is located at the utmost outskirts COORDINATES

and in the south east of Mandleshwar, LATITUDE- 22* 9'57.79"N
M.P. (INDIA)
LONGITUDE- 75* 40'33.92"E
near NVDA Guest house and Shree Madhavasharam
Nyas Goushala, Maheshwar Dam
ABOUT AND HISTORY

It is "Pavitra nagri" as termed by the government of Madhya Pradesh

There are many old temples containing history and art in themselves,
including Chhappan-Dev, Shree Ram Temple, Shree Datta Temple,
Ganga-Zira, and Kaashi Vishweshwar Temple. Vasudevanand Sarswati (a
great saint) lived here for a long period.

Dhawal-kunda, Hathani, Sahastradhra, Ramkund are some other places of

historical importance. It is said that Swami Vivekanand lived here for some
days when he was going to Raipur.
Images of Ram Mandir,
Still the marks of British time are present here; SDM, DSP Office, fort, and Narmada river ghat and
ghat tell us the story of that time. It was also the headquarters of the Nimar Maheshwar dam
Agency and cantonment under the British from 1819 to 1864. Mandleshwar

It fell to the Marathas in the 18th century and in 1740 was granted by
Malhar Rao Holkar to a Brahman, Vyankatram Shastri.

In 1823 it became the headquarters of the District of Nimar, which until

1864 was managed by the agent to the governor general at
Indore.Mandleshwar is just 8 km. from Maheshwar, which was the capital
of Holkar states.

Mandleshwar in Central India is on the bank of the Narmada River at a

narrow point where in the monsoon stream often rises 60 feet above its
normal level becoming a roaring torrent.
 BASIC LAYOUT

And Maheshwar is at a
distance of 11km from the
site

AND FROM MANDLESHWAR MAHESHWAR IS AT A DISTANCE OF 11KM

The site is located at

2.6km from
Mandleshwar
 SITE PLAN

SMN NVDA
•SITE AREA – cattlefarm guest house
36,369.21 sq m (8.9acres)

•Ground coverage is 30 %
10,910.76 sq m (2.69acres)

•F.A.R -1.5

•M.O.S is 15m in the front

9m from other sides

•Soil Type - Black & Alluvial

Maheshwar
•South Side - Narmada River hydel project

•Access - Khargone -Indore Narmada river

Highway

Maheshwar
dam
SITE CHARACTERISTICS

NEIGHBOURING CONTEXT -

1.EXISTING BUILDINGS

•Around site- NVDA guest house , Maheshwar hydel project block

and dam.

NEIGHBOURING CONTEXT
•And most of the surrounding is agricultural land, at south it
has Narmada river.

•On site - Goushala, old temple and temporary truss structure.

2. ROAD WIDTH - front road 9.01 m.

3. NOISE - major sources if the noise are from highway

and from the dam near the site.
SOIL-
4. TRAFFIC
•Soil type present on site is BLACK SOIL.
the speed of traffic on the highway road. •Black cotton soil is heavy clay soil, varying
from clay to loam; it is generally
•Green: No traffic delays.
•light to dark grey in colour.
•Orange: Medium amount of traffic.(1:00pm to 4:30 pm approx in •The most important characteristic of the soil is,
this time.) when dry, it shrinks and is
•hard like stone and has very high bearing
capacity.
 INFERENCE (Characteristics)
NEIGHBOURING CONTEXT
TRAFFIC SENSORY AND NOISE ON SITE
The size and distance of traffic and noise demarcations are
mentioned accordingly to the site existing characteristics
•The Indore-Khargone highway on the west of the site covers the most
traffic and noise being moderately distant from and towards the site.
•The south east of the covers a avg. amount of traffic and noise
focusing on the site due to the Maheshwar dam and considering and a
little amount of noise focusing towards the site is from the north
east(nvda guest house) and the river bank at certain distances.
TREES AND VEGETATION AROUND THE SITE
The sizes of the trees are categorized into three parts as dense,
moderate and light trees accordingly to provide vegetation aspect
on the site
•The west end of the site is densely populated with the dense trees and the
east end is comparatively less dense with moderate amount of trees.
•The north side of the site and opposite to the main connecting road in the
front of the site is heavily loaded with trees as well as existing agricultural
land.
 INFERENCES (Characteristics)
NEIGHBOURING CONTEXT
CONTOURS AND POSSIBILTY OF BUILTUP ON SITE
The markings on the site depicts the flat (minimum contour
levels) and maximum possible area covered on the site
respectively for the built blocks
•The circles on the site depicts the areas where the builtblocks could
easily cover a large amount of area and the sa=hade decrease
acoordingly to the size of the circle marking.
•The areas where most of the contour levels are close depicts the
region where the areas could be provide as stairs and open spaces for
better user interaction throughout the site.
EXISTING BUILDINGS AND LAND USE ON AND AROUND THE SITE
The built blocks define the specific characters on the site and the
colours of the built blocks depicts their purpose already existing on
the site
•The built block on the site depicts the already existing activities such as
temple under construction, goushala(cattle farm) with storage of food for
cattle and the construction materials storage temporary structures onto the
site.
•The north part is the agricultural area and the north-east part where the
yellow area is marked is the NVDA guest house and the in the river part the
south-east side is the Maheshwar dam around the site.
 INFERENCES (Characteristics)
NEIGHBOURING CONTEXT
SUN MOVEMENT AROUND THE SITE
The arrow part and the area covered buy it depicts the region
from where the sun light could be captured at its maximum
•The sun movement is from east to west via south and is depicted in the
above plan of sun movement
•The region coloured shows the fading of the sunlight according to the
day accordingly to the purpose of the site
WIND MOVEMENTS AROUND THE SITE
The arrow shows the wind movements and the colour of the arrows
depicts the various seasonal affect on the winds throughout and
around the site
•The main flow of winds is generally from north-west and south-west and
increases in the monsoon season
Wind speed of over 7.4km/h
Maximum wind flow is during May - June
Minimum wind flow is during December – January
•The summer winds move in west and north west around the site and the
The winter winds move from north-east to south-west
 INFERENCES (Characteristics)

NEIGHBOURING CONTEXT

BUFFER ZONE FOR THE SITE APPROACH TO AND FROM THE SITE

The trees and their sizes depicts the region towards the site from The arrows and their colour depicts the approach onto the site
where the provision of buffer zones should be created and it could possibly given from the front of the site

•The north-west and the south east ends are to be densely provided •The yellow arrows depicts the region from where the entrance could
with trees to create a soothing environment throughout the site, possibly be best for the vehicular networking as there would be better
The distant sensory markings depicts the area and direction from where opportunity for the pedestrian networking on the other side where it is
it is to be applied on the areas. marked red for the exit.

•The dense, moderate and light sized trees depicts the areas which is to •The red arrow shows the area where the exit is provided but no prvision
be buffered respectively to the spaces on site. from this area for the vehicular movement.
 INFERENCES (Characteristics)
NEIGHBOURING CONTEXT
CIRCULATION ABOUT THE SITE
The sizes of the trees are categorized into three parts as dense,
moderate and light trees accordingly to provide vegetation aspect
on the site
•The .yellow arrow shows the basic movement of the pedestrian movement
and this implies where the area maximum covered with the least percentage
of slope.
•The red arrows depicts the region where the vehicular circulation could
possibly be provided for better coherency with the other areas and restricting
the clutter to be made at the time of maximum movement of the users on the
site.
BUILT BLOCKS PLACEMENT AND ORIENTATION FOR THE SITE
The sizes of the trees are categorized into three parts as dense,
moderate and light trees accordingly to provide vegetation aspect on
the site
•The plan above describes the tentative zoning on the site and could possibly be
better for the built blocks and orientation for the site and basic requirement
includes areas such as administrative, academic, sports or cultural, and cafe or
canteen or restaurants.
•The approaches to the site describes the vehicular and pedestrian possible
outcomes and for the north-west approach mostly depicts the vehicular
movement and area for the multilevel parking on the site.
 INFERENCE (Characteristics)
CATCHMENT AREA AROUND THE SITE

The arrows and the colour defines the movement

and nature respectively, of the water and
drainage throughout the site

•The river bank on the site is the area where the

maximum area is captured for the natural
catchment and flow of water around the site.

•The drainage or the sewage line which is to be

constructed along the road in the front and north
of the site.

NEIGHBOURING CONTEXT
•A catchment is an area where water is
collected by the natural landscape.

•The outside edge of a catchment is always the

highest point. Gravity causes all rain and run-off
in the catchment to run downhill where it
naturally collects in creeks, rivers, lakes or
oceans.

•Rain falling outside the edge of one catchment

is falling on a different catchment, and will flow
into other creeks and rivers.

•Some water also seeps below ground where it is

stored in the soil or in the space between rocks.
This is called groundwater.
 STUDY OF
CONTOURS
CONTOUR LINE

A Contour line is an imaginary

line on any area, joining the
same points of an elevation
SMN NVDA
SLOPE
cattlefarm guest house
The ratio of horizontal and
vertical distances is called a
slope and its types are :

•Gentle (more width or NEIGHBOURING CONTEXT

horizontal distance)

•Steep (less width or horizontal

distance)

“We measure slope with the horizontal distances between

contour lines and on each point by obtaining the percentage Maheshwar
of slope by setting up parameters accordingly, hydel project
And the percentage of slope is inversely proportional to the
distance between the contour lines of different elevations.”
Narmada river

The steps to follow while studying the contours are:

Maheshwar
•Data collection dam
•Slope analysis
•Conclusions (overlay)
SITE PLAN
 SLOPE
ANALYSIS
DATA COLLECTION OF
CONTOURS

The valleys and ridges are

determined and the areas
where the slope is gentle and
steep

•The green circles define the areas

where the surface and the slope is
gently elevated on the site.( more
distance between contour lines)

•The red circles depicts the region NEIGHBOURING CONTEXT

where the surface and the slope is
steep and highly elevated on the
site.(less distance between contour
lines)

ANALYSIS

The study of percentages of slope and the

horizontal and vertical distances between contour
lines and also describing the valleys and ridges
and understanding where modification or grading
could be done on the site.

CONCLUSION ( overlay )

The overlay of family of colours is used to depict the percentage and slope
and distance s between contours by understanding the areas where the
purpose of our desired spaces are good, better or best for the site.
 AROUND THE SITE
THE AVERAGE ELEVATION IS 151M
SLOPE ALONG SITE APPROX. SLOPE AROUND SITE

VERTICAL SECTION ROAD SECTION

HORIZONTAL SECTION RIVER SECTION

SITE SKETCHES

OPPORTUNITIES
Tentative SITE Sketch

SITE PLAN

Tentative Section
 VIEWS TO THE SITE

View of site from the highway View of site from the highway

View of site from the View of site from the

opposite riverbank opposite riverbank
 VIEWS FROM THE SITE

View of dam from the site View of Gaushala from the site
View from North West and West corner View from North corner
View from South West corner

River side view from site View of dense vegetation and dam
View from South West corner View from South East and East corner
 •Bus stand distance 2.6 km

•Nagar parishad ( city council ) 2.9 km

UTILITIES •Near airport Indore airport 83 to 90 km Bhopal airport

270 km

•Nagar panchayat

•Government hospital 3 km It is a "Pavitra nagri" as

termed by the government of Madhya Pradesh
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•Police Station 2.8 km •Near railway station Mhow 60 km Indore in 82 km availability of electricity

•Petrol pump 3.1 km •Total population 12,343 according to 2011 census

•Narmada ghaat 3.9 km

Junction of beda river
and narmada river to
•Maheshwar 11 km
Electric pole maheshwar dam
•Khargone 45 km availability of electricity
•Mandleshwar city center
point 2.6 km

•Indore 81 km to 105 km
High tension line ( HT line)
•Mandleshwar ...Banks and
atms ( state Bank , bank of
India,Idfc bank ,jila
sahksari kendriya bank
)Omkareshwar 60 km

Existing cattlefarm on the site

 CLIMATE
ANALYSIS
•Mandleshwar has the tropical savanna (
WET AND DRY ) climate prevailing.

•It is warm every month with both a wet

and dry season. Tropical wet and dry
climate is also known as monsoon
savanna in India.

•The tropical wet and dry climate is Average daily sunshine

•Further, another
characterized by featurehighof this climate is long dry period that
persistently spreads
The bar chart over
below shows the averagewinter
daily sunshine and early
hours in Mandleshwar

summer.
temperature in the coolest month and dry
winter.

•Further, another feature of this climate is

long dry period that spreads over winter
and early summer.

•Major effect on climate of the

site is due to the water body

Day / night temperatures

The graph below shows the daily range of temperatures for each month.
 SUN PATH DIAGRAM

Sun Study - if one plans to segregate the external spaces, interiors, and the light-sensitive spaces while
including the characteristic passive design elements such as mutual shading and adaptabilityto the seasonal
locus change of the sun. Sun Study - if one plans to segregate the external spaces, interiors, and the light-
sensitive spaces while including the characteristic passive design elements such as mutual shading
and adaptabilityto the seasonal locus change of the sun. Sun Study - if one plans to segregate the external
spaces, interiors, and the light-sensitive spaces while including the characteristic passive design elements such
as mutual shading and adatabilityto the seasonal locus change of the sun.
Sun Study –
The movement of the sun is from south east to south west
if one plans to segregate the external spaces, interiors,
and the light-sensitive spaces while including the
characteristic passive design elements such as mutual
shading and adaptability to the seasonal locus change of
the sun.

GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION OF SUNPATH ON THE SITE

 WIND SPEED

•The graph shows the average wind speed.

•A monthly average windspeed of over 7.4km/h

•Maximum wind flow is during May - June

•Minimum wind flow is during December – January

•During summers hot winds flow from W and NW direction

•In rains the wind flows from mainly SW and NW direction

•During winters wind flows from NE to SW direction

•The prevailing winds of the region are the Trade Winds, which bring rain
to the coastal districts.

•They are strongest in the summer [favorable position of ITCZ] but are
relatively dry by the time they reach the continental interiors or the
western coasts [Trade winds are easterlies – flow from east to west. So
rainfall decreases from east to west here].
Average temperature
•Mean monthly temperature is above 18 degree Celsius
during the winter season.

•Summer before the onset of rains is very hot, particularly

in the interior low level areas where in May maximum
temperature may increase up to 46 degree Celsius and
sometimes even up to 48 degree Celsius.

•The average annual temperature for Mandleshwar is 34°

degrees

•The bar chart below shows the average monthly peak

daytime temperatures at Mandleshwar

Average rainfall & rainy days

•and there is about 591 mm of rain in a year. It is dry for
260 days a year with an average humidity of 46% and
an UV-index of 7.
•Mean annual rainfall ranges from 80 – 160 cm [Rainfall
decreases with distance from equator].

•In the northern hemisphere, the rainy season begins in

May and lasts till September.

•In the southern hemisphere, the rainy season is from

October to March.
 INFERENCES from CLIMATE ANALYSIS
•South Side:
Provide shading such that only winter sun is allowed to enter. •South Side:
Deciduous trees can be used. Provide shading such that only winter
sun is allowed to enter.
•West Side: Deciduous trees can be used.
Create openings to incorporate air according to the wind
•West Side:
direction, in order to achieve cross ventilation. Create openings to incorporate air
•North Side: according to the wind direction, in order
to achieve cross ventilation.
Landscaping to be provided here, evergreen trees can be
used. •North Side:
Landscaping to be provided here,
•East Side:Demanding compact buildings and levied with minimal compromises,
inward-looking buildings with interior courtyards for the creation of evergreen trees can be used.
Create openings for cross
cooling areas ventilation,
are necessary to minimizeonthe a higher
heat gain andlevel
when
•East Side:
preferably so that the warm airclubbed can rise up. Create openings for cross ventilation, on
a higher level, preferably so that the
warm air can rise up.
•Wind Direction:
Creating small inlets and larger outlets to achieve faster •Wind Direction:

velocity of winds, can use jalis Window to Wall Area Ratio

Creating small inlets and larger outlets to
achieve faster
Courtyard. in terms of Net Glazing velocity of winds, can use jaalis.
Area Courtyard.
 ‘Compactness’ and ‘Perimeter to
Area Ratio’ are two proven
methodologies for optimal design in
terms of combat against thermal
gain

The PA ratio (perimeter area

ratio, or P/A ratio)

is a measure of the degree

to which the perimeter of
the floor is exposed: PA =
exposed perimeter (m) /
floor area (m²). The lower
the PA ratio, the better the
thermal performance of the
For a tropical zone, the kind with peak temperatures touching 30 degree C floor.
and diurnal variations being as much as 20 degrees C; to study the sun and
daylight, its solar radiations along with the energy analysis is pivotal if one
plans to segregate the external spaces, interiors, and the light-sensitive
spaces while including the characteristic passive design elements such as
mutual shading and adaptability to the seasonal locus change of the sun.
ORIENTATION OF BUILDINGS
Design for Maximum Ventilation
•Install operable windows.
•Use landscaping elements to channel breezes.
•Properly locate and size windows for cross
ventilation.
•Reduce internal barriers to ventilation (i.e. walls).
•Use wing walls if cross ventilation is not possible.
•Use stack ventilation to create a chimney effect.
ORIENTATION OF BUILDINGSORIENTATION OF BUILDINGSORIENTATION OF BUILDINGS
Wing Walls
To increase the cooling effectiveness of natural
ventilation techniques, especially on sites with low
outdoor air velocity and variable wind directions, it
is possible to incorporate wing walls into the
building design. Wing walls project outward next to
a window even a slight breeze against the wall
creates a high pressure zone on one side and low
on the other. The pressure differential draws
outdoor air in through one open window and out
the adjacent one.
 Major Project in Narmada
Basin

•Maheshwar dam Project : The Maheshwar Hydel Project 400

MWlocated about 40 km downstream of Omkareshwar multi-
purpose project on main Narmada river near Mandleshwar town in
Khargone district of Madhya Pradesh.
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• Maheshwar is last dam on river Narmada availability
within the boundary of
of electricity
Madhya Pradesh. 8.12 MAF of water will be released to Gujarat. The
work is being carried out by Sri Maheshwar Hydel Power Corporation
Limited.
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