• Rachana Pandey

The traditional vernacular practice of any region are sources of wonderful knowledge for architects. These vernacular building practices holistically look at climate, social, cultural, economic and environmental aspects. The traditional-vernacular human settlements have been featured by conducting favourable practises to optimise the resources available locally. Their indigenous method of construction and designing techniques provide knowledge to cope up with severe local climate and geological conditions. Although new construction techniques and materials have taken over the market but the fundamental design elements remain the same. Thus it is important to learn and understand the indigenous building practices before designing building in the region. Therefore this paper analyses vernacular architecture of village Majhera in Nainital district of Kumaon region, from the perspective of sustainable and solar passive design. This research gives interesting study that how different typologies adopt different built form and orientation in the same prevailing climate. And also help to identify the hill architecture features of the region that can still be incorporated in contemporary constructions.

Vernacular,-kumaoni architecture, lesser Himalaya, passive design, daylight zone, surface to volume ratio.

"Vernacular And Passive Design Study of Kumaoni Architecture- A Casestudy of Majhera Village in Nainital District of Uttarakhand,India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no.237-245, November-2018, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811836.pdf

"Vernacular And Passive Design Study of Kumaoni Architecture- A Casestudy of Majhera Village in Nainital District of Uttarakhand,India", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.5, Issue 11, page no. pp237-245, November-2018, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1811836.pdf