RUSTIC ROMANCE

KAVITA MAITREYI NEELAKSHI SWARNIMA

 RUSTIC ROMANCE

1. USE OF STONE AS A BUILDING MATERIAL

2. CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES AND
3. ITS AESTHETICAL APPEAL IN THE HINDU, INDO-
ISLAMIC AND COLONIAL ERAS.
ROMANCE IS THE EXCITEMENT
AND MYSTIFYING QUALITY
THAT EVERY CRUMBLING
STONE OF THESE WALLS
NARRATE……………
STONE HAS ALWAYS BEEN A DESIRABLE
BUILDING MATERIAL AS IT STANDS IN
SPLENDID GLORY AS A COMBINATION OF
SOBERNESS AND ELEGANCE ……

……THE GRANDEUR AND NOBILITY OF THE

BUILDINGS IN STONE LEAVE US PONDERING
IF ANY OTHER MATERIAL CAN CHALLENGE
STONE FOR ITS MYSTIFYING QUALITY.
BUILDINGS IN STONE HAVE SUPREMACY AND AUTHORITY
THAT CAN BE VISUALLY FELT DUE TO THE HEFTY
CONSTRUCTION
 USES OF STONE AND
CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES
 Construction Techniques

Construction in stone started as early as

the builiding of Sanchi Stupa where the
Indian mason, unaware of the properties
of the stone copied every technique of
timber architecture painstakingly on to
stone.
• Construction in Stone varies slightly from
Hindu Temples to Mughal to Colonial
Architecture.

• Hindu Temples had Structural elements like

the lintel, beam and columns, built entirely
out of stone blocks.

• Onto the surface of these blocks minute

sculptures were laboriously carved out to
give the rich and detailed appearance.
• The earlier mosques due to being built by
Indian masons were constructed in the
same style as Hindu temples . Only the
surface detailing was different.

• The domes of these mosques was built by

applying layers of plaster to a trabeated
stone pyramid and the arches were
corbelled arches in which the unwanted
extensions were later on chiseled off.
• Later this technique was advanced onto the
construction of the true arch with voussiors
and double domes . Also most mosques
were built out of rubble masonry with a
facing of stones like sandstone, marble etc.

• Also now there was a use of mortar for the

purpose of binding stone blocks
AESTHETICS AS A
PHILOSOPHICAL THEORY
TO WHAT IS BEAUTIFUL
DEALS NOT ONLY WITH
VISUAL BEAUTY BUT
WITH
• UTILITY
• ORDERLY DISPOSITION
• NOBILITY AND
• SUSTAINABILITY
STONE IN THE HINDU ERA
LADH KHAN TEMPLE
VIRUPAKSHA TEMPLE
SUN TEMPLE
THE TEMPLES HAVE A UNIQUE STYLE AS A RESULT OF BEING
INTERWOVEN WITH THE THEN EXISTING ARCHITECTURAL FABRIC
THE MIGHTY SUN TEMPLE SPARKLES UNDER THE CHARM OF THE MOON
WITH ALL ITS GLORY…….
MUKTESHWARA TEMPLE
BELIEVED THAT GOD EXISTS IN THE DETAILS

THE CRUDENESS AND SIMPLICITY

OF THE CONSTRUCTION WITH ALL
THE INTENSE DETAILING MAKE
THE STRUCTURES LOOK RUSTIC
GIVING THEM A CHARACTER OF
THEIR OWN.
STONE IN THE INDO–ISLAMIC PERIOD
FATEHPUR SIKRI
THE ARCHITECTURAL CHARATER REACHED THE ZENITH OF
BRILLIANCE AS AN OUTCOME OF NUMEROUS EXPERIMENTS
ATTENTION DRIFTED TO
FAÇADE ARTICULATION BY
COMPOSING THE
COLOURED STONES
ALONG THE FAÇADE….

…..CALLIGRAPHY , FLORAL
AND GEOMETRIC DESIGNS
WERE USED TO
DECORATE THE FAÇADE.
STONE EDIFICES
ATTAIN THEIR
ARCHITECTURAL
ENDEAVOR DUE TO
CLARITY AND
RUSTICITY IN THE
STRUCTURE THAT
COULD BE PRODUCED
ONLY BY STONE…..
I THE COLONIAL ERA
THE VICTORIA MEMORIAL
THE SUPREME COURT
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TO OVERSHADOW
STONE (AS AN
INFERIOR ) IS BEYOND
ALL POSSIBLE
EFFORTS OF MANKIND

THE EFFECT
PRODUCED BY IT IS
OF THE HIGHEST
DEGREE AND
RENDERS AN
EMINENT QUALITY TO
THE BUILDING
THE MONUMENTAL MAGNIFICENCE OF THE
STRUCTURE TRULY DEIFIES THE COMMON
MAN..
THE EYE CANNOT ADMIRE WHAT IS BEYOND ITS
PERCEPTION….CRUDE AND UNSOPHISTICATED
REPRESENTATION MAKES THE OBJECT APPEAR
RUSTIC AND OF RURAL NATURE…..WE SEE THAT
IT IS BEAUTIFUL IN ITS OWN WAY.
THE POWER TO INSPIRE COMES FROM THE SPIRIT OF LIFE..
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