The settlement study was done in a Orchha village of Niwari district, Madhya Pradesh.
The students were distributed in 8 groups, studying different places in the same village. The group I was working in was Harijan Colony, a housing space in the village 400m down from the Ram Raja Mandir which was chosen as the central point for our reference of mapping the village. Harijan Colony had block-type mirrored houses with an interesting play of plinths throughout it. The people residing there live most of their life out of their homes on the plinths and thats what got the space a new transition.
We started drawing out the plan of the whole space and the life that was happening outside. We tried to trace all the plinths, the dogs and cows that strolled in this space, the gutter lines that flow throughout the colony, the sheds and all such things we got to see. While drawing this, we noticed that the houses here are all arranged in rows, following the same pattern. Some doors and windows were closed for a specific reason. The people living there bathed outside, cooked their food on chullahs outside, they had even made sheds for cows.
The trees played an important role in the whole part, how we led our path through this colony and much more.
Later on we worked with the whole class and looked at how our part of study can be stitched with the drawings of other groups and how the overall drawing can represent some form of the Orchha village. We developed our work in form of miniature paintings, it helped us show the exact life happening in the village.
Overall Study of Orchha village: ORCHHA SETTLEMENT
Study of our part: HARIJAN COLONY
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