Pondicherry Streetscapes

Pondicherry Streetscapes STREETSCAPES OF PONDICHERRY These street facades are usually plain and austere, enhancing the effect of the straight and perpendicular grid plan of the town.

Streetscapes of the French Town:

The streets are usually characterized by continuous wall to wall construction, full or partial street frontage, high garden walls, elaborate gateways, and solid walls divided into smaller panels by the use of verticals (pilaster) and horizontals (cornices). The exterior wall panels feature flat or segmental arched windows with bands and heavy wooden shutters. In

the case of two storied buildings wooden balconies supported on wrought iron brackets and common. The composition is completed by a continuous parapet usually decorated with loopholes or terracotta pot baluster, or curved. In the case of important building decorative features and end ornaments are commonly used. Streetscapes of the Tamil Town:

It is interesting to note the distinct variation in the characteristics of French and Tamil street. French streets are characterized by mansion type villas with high compound walls, elaborate gates, garden courts, arched patios, colonnaded galleries, voluminous rooms, high arched opening, wooden balconies and flat terraced roofs. Tamil streets are mainly characterized by the thalvaram (Street verandah with platform and lean-to-roof over wooden posts) - a social extension of the house - and a thinnai (semi-public verandah space with masonry benches for visitors). These talking streets, so called because of their intimate scale and interactive nature, are typical of the vernacular Tamil architecture (also to be found in Kumbakonam, Tanjore, Chidambaram, Srirangam, Mylapore), and the entire street stretch is homogenous because of the use of connecting elements like lean-to-roofs, cornices (horizontals), pilasters or engaged columns (verticals) and ornamental parapets. These Tamil building usually feature a combination of flat and pitched roofs. Your door guard,
Doorways Pondicherry.

BELLECOMBE STREETSCAPE,Bellecombe Street, French town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.
09/04/2025

BELLECOMBE STREETSCAPE,
Bellecombe Street, French town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.

ROMAIN ROLLAND STREETSCAPE,Romain Rolland Street, French town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.
27/02/2025

ROMAIN ROLLAND STREETSCAPE,
Romain Rolland Street, French town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.

FRANCOIS MARTIN STREETSCAPE,Fracois Martin Street, French town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.
09/02/2025

FRANCOIS MARTIN STREETSCAPE,
Fracois Martin Street, French town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.

BELLECOMBE STREETSCAPE,Bellecombe Street, French town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.
31/01/2025

BELLECOMBE STREETSCAPE,

Bellecombe Street, French town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.

STREETSCAPE,Bussy Street & M.G.Road, Tamil town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.
09/01/2025

STREETSCAPE,
Bussy Street & M.G.Road, Tamil town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.

STREETSCAPE,Francois Martin Street & Dupuy Street, French town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.
29/11/2024

STREETSCAPE,
Francois Martin Street & Dupuy Street, French town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.

STREETSCAPE,Capitane Marius Xavier Street, Tamil town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.
26/11/2024

STREETSCAPE,
Capitane Marius Xavier Street, Tamil town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.

STREETSCAPE,Goubert Avenue, French town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.
23/11/2024

STREETSCAPE,
Goubert Avenue, French town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.

STREETSCAPE,Tamil town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.
15/10/2024

STREETSCAPE,
Tamil town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.

STREETSCAPE,Suffren Street, white town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.
06/10/2024

STREETSCAPE,
Suffren Street, white town, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.

STREETSCAPE,Caserne Street, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.
24/09/2024

STREETSCAPE,
Caserne Street, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.

STREETSCAPE,Francois Martin Street, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.
17/09/2024

STREETSCAPE,
Francois Martin Street, Puducherry, 605001, INDIA.

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