HISTORY OF ARCHITECTURE - V

COLONIAL ARCHITECTURE

EXAMPLES FROM HUBLI &

DHARWAD
SANTOSH P
VIRESH CC
SUJITH K
ROHAN
INTRODUCTION
•Chalukyas ruled Dharwad during 12th century.

•Later Dharwad became a part of the Vijayanagara empire. After the fall of the Vijayanagara empire(1453 AD), Bijapur Adil Shah
captured Dharwad and built a fort.

•The fort area was called MannaKille, and later Nazratabad. With this fort , the strategic importance of Dharwad increased and it
thus became part of everyone's empire, Aurangzeb, Shivaji , Aurangzeb's son Mu Azam, Peshwa Balaji Rao, Haider Ali, Tipu Sultan
and finally British.

•During the 19th century the British started English Medium school in Dharwad, in 1848 and in 1856 started town municipality. Later
in 1863, the Basel Mission organization started another school. In 1867 British opened another school, Varmal school, which later
on became known as Training college. In 1883, the municipality area expanded with more nearby districts being added.

•The British government also established the Railway station in 1888.

•The Karnataka Vidyavardhaka Sangha was established in 1890. The Sangha brought people of Dharwad together to excel in
various fields like art , music , drama , culture and freedom struggle and united all kannada speaking population and formation of
Karnataka.

•During the early 20th century, importance of Dharwad increased and it soon became a center of freedom struggle , participated
actively in Khilafat and Quit India movements.
HUBLI - DHARWAD CORPORATION OFFICE.

— The building houses the city corporation of

hubli-dharwad
— This is a two storey structure in the heart
of the city
— Covers a plinth area of 6700Sqft.
— Was built during 1700’s as a guest house.
— This is an example british colonial
architecture and has the influence of
marathas.
 — Plan is almost symmetrical.
— Ground floor has a large central hall flanked by rooms.
— Two teakwood staircases in the front and back
verandahs provides access to first floor

—The first floor has a large hall for meetings and public
functions and was designed to uphold 600 people.
— A Balcony associated with the first floor servers
ventilation to the hall that is present
 — The front facade catered with the classical form and the
rare facade is completely gothic.
— Brick and lime mortar building is clad in finely dressed
badami sandstone which is pinkish tinge on the ground floor.
— On the front facade we have typical renaissance revival
features like the arcade on the ground floor featuring two semi
circular arches and between a larger semi circular arch.

— The Porch being extruded to give a

grand entry to the building and also
created a balcony in the first floor.
— The roof is typical a sloping
supported by trusses.
OPENINGS DETAILS ROOF DETAILS

— All arches are highlighted with the

radiating wedge shaped voussoirs and — Roof is supported
a very romanesque keystone. by the queen post
— A small pentafoil - a five-leafed motif truss.
in the spandrels (the triangular space — Roof is covered
between the top of an arch and a with mangalore tiles
rectangular frame.
DOORS broken down to
different parts of the
first floor
— Windows are square shaped — There is a
topped with a elliptical/semi mesnine created
circular arches. also used as storage
before.

WINDOWS
 VIDYAVARDHAKA SANGHA, DHARWAD
The Karnatak Vidyavardhaka Sangha was an
institution established on 20 July 1890 by Sri
R H Deshpande in Dharwad, India which was then
under the British rule of Bombay Presidency. This
institution was established with the sole objective of
promoting Kannada culture and language in times when
the Kannada speaking regions of present day
Karnataka were split into six different areas, where
Kannada was often overshadowed by other languages.
Soon the Sangha morphed into a hub for the
Karnataka Ekikarana (Unification) movement and
played a pivotal role in the eventual unification of
Karnataka.
• It has been the launching pad for not only freedom
movement and State unification movement, but also
several other agitations including the famous Gokak
Movement .
 Materials:
Brick walls,
Mangalore tiles for roofing,
Wooden windows and doors

● It’s a two storey building with pitched roof.

● Major portion of the plan serves as the
auditorium.
● The north side consists of series of
rooms.
● The adjacent passage on the east side
gives entries/exits to the auditorium.
● First floors consists a library adjacent to
the stage.
Door details Window details

● Windows and doors are

square shaped topped
with a elliptical/semi Roof details
circular arches.
● Windows are mostly made
of wood. ● Roof is supported by the queen
●
post truss.
All arches are highlighted
● Roof is covered with mangalore
with the radiating wedge
shaped voussoirs and a tiles.
very romanesque ● Pitched roof.
keystone.
 DISTRICT INSTITUTE OF EDUCATIONAL TRAINING,
DHARWAD.
•One of the British time buildings of
Dharwad.
•This group of buildings were built to
accommodate railways offices but with
change of plans the buildings were used as
army barracks.
•Then the buildings were given to run a
college for training teachers, which still
continues.
•The uniqueness of the main building is a
pair of towers - the twin towers of Dharwad.
● DIET building is symmetrical.
● There are arches on either
sides of 2 diagonal towers at
centre.
● The building is of indo-
saracenic style.
● Its veranda in front of rooms
reflects the european style of
architecture. GROUND FLOOR PLAN
● The building is two storied
and huge.
● Sun baked bricks with lime
mortar is used in construction
over which a red paint is
coated.
● Since it has double height long
windows are provided to
maintain sufficient light inside.
● The jharokhas decorated with
dressed stones highlight indian
styles.
● Rare and front facades does
not match each other.
● The short arm of a wing has
roman arches( semicircular
arches) where other arches
are elliptical arches.
● The main entrance has another
wider arch between the two
towers.
● It is provided with jack arch
roofing which requires high skilled
workmanship and high
experience.
● It is one of the peculiar feature of
the building, it's even low costing
and it adds to the aesthetics.
● The flooring of the building is
done with kadappa stone.
● One tower of the entrance
includes spiral staircase to it's
interior which are made up of solid
stones.
 Basel Mission memorial church
•This is the oldest church in Dharwad, established in 1845 by the Basel
Missionaries.
•The church is known as Hebich Memorial Church or Basel Mission Memorial
Church.
•A simple yet beautiful Gothic structure with lot of open space around it.
•The structure is almost in its original condition except for the rear portion which
was widened to create more space inside. Arched windows with stained glass
shutters.

General offices of southern Mahratta railway at Hubli –

Dharwad.
Now this heritage building is called Karnataka college
Dharwad(KCD).
•Loco, Carriage and Wagon workshop at Hubli was established in 1885
under Southern Mahratta Railway (SMR) headquartered at Dharwad .
•After Bengaluru , Hubli is considered as the second most important city of
Karnataka.
•Hubli –Dharwad municipal corporation is one of the few municipal
corporations that look after not one but 2 cities.