Heritage Memento / Souvenir

A Pol House of Historic Ahmedabad 

Replica of Pol House, Gujarat, India

Preserving Health & Heritage in old Ahmedabad Built by Shri Dahyabhai Ijjatram Mehta in 1896 as his residence, this heritage building belongs to his grandchildren Pratimaben, Priyadarshanbhai Mehta and their family. It is a typical 19th century example of traditional living within the walled city of Ahmedabad.

This Building is being used by CHETNA, Centre for Health Education, Training and Nutrition Awareness since 1996, and was restored with the guidance of an architect from "Mandala", Ahmedabad and CRUTA Foundation. This project paved the way for the revitalisation of the walled city of Ahmedabad.

Ahmedabad's Pride: Chabutro - bird feeder 
Replica of Karanj Chabutaro in 1896

Revival of Ahmedabad's Pride: Chabutaro - bird feeder

Chabutaro "a stone or wooden tower with artistic canopy over it constructed to feed birds" is a salient feature of the ambience of any pol in Ahmedabad. There are nearly 120 of them. Many are in a dilapidated condition and need to be restored for their heritage value.

The architecture of a chabutaro is different from the rest because it contains intricate carvings and complicated interlocking system of wood. Its restoration being one of the activities of conservation, the Heritage Cell of AMC took up the challenge of reconstructing one of the oldest chabutaro located at Karanj near Bhadra Fort.

Hevali, Traditional Pol House of

Historic Ahmedabad 

Replica of Pol House, Gujarat, India

The Traditional Pol Houses of Ahmedabad - an urban phenomenon - conforms to a general character in their organization and articulation - i.e. narrow frontage representing composite wooden facade and sharing of common walls on longer sides; defined spatial components; bonding timber construction; and densely articulated within confined settlement pattern known as pols - an empirically evolved labyrinths. These characteristics were the product of cultural pattern of time, caste division, male, female equation exigencies of joint family, social, and religious mores as well as contingent to climatic and structural requirement.

 

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