New Delhi:
The grand temple at Ayodhya for Ram Lalla or toddler Lord Ram is actually an amalgamation of conventional Indian heritage structure incorporating science for development in order that it may possibly final for hundreds of years.
“The temple has been made to last more than a thousand years,” asserts Shri Nripendra Misra, chairperson of the temple development committee of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust, Ayodhya.
He says prime Indian scientists have contributed to creating it an iconic construction like by no means earlier than. Even ISRO applied sciences have been suitably used within the temple.
The architectural design was made based on the Nagar Shaily or the northern Indian temple designs by Chandrakant Sompura who has been designing heritage temple buildings as a household custom that goes again 15 generations. The household has designed over 100 temples.
Mr Sompura says “In the annals of architecture Shri Ram Temple will be the rarely seen, unique kind of splendid creation ever conceptualized not only in India but at any place on Earth.”
The whole temple space is 2.7 acres and the built-up space is about 57,000 sq. toes it will likely be a three-floor construction, says Nripendra Misra. He says that no iron or metal has been used within the temple for the reason that lifetime of iron is merely 80-90 years. The top of the temple will likely be 161 toes or about 70% of the peak of the Qutab Minar.
“The very best quality granite, sandstone, and marble has been used and there is no use of cement or lime mortar in the joints, only a lock and key mechanism using groves and ridges has been used in the construction of the entire structure”, says Dr Pradeep Kumar Ramancharla, Director of the Central Building Research Institute, Roorkee who has been actively concerned within the development venture. CBRI says the structural design of three floored buildings has been carried out to withstand an earthquake of the return interval of two,500 years.
Mr Misra says on evaluation it was discovered floor beneath the temple was sandy and unstable for the reason that Sarayu River flowed close to the location at one level, and this posed a particular problem. But the scientists discovered an ingenious resolution to this downside.
First, the soil for your entire temple space was excavated out to a depth of 15 meters. Ramancharla says “An engineered soil was laid in the area to a depth of 12-14 meters, no steel re-bars were used, and the 47 layered bases were compacted to make it solid rock-like.”
On prime of this, a 1.5 meter thick M-35 grade metal-free concrete raft was laid as a reinforcement. To additional strengthen the muse a plinth of 6.three meter thick stable granite stone extracted from southern India was positioned.
The a part of the temple that will likely be seen to guests is made up of pink sandstone known as ‘Bansi Paharpur’ stone extracted from Rajasthan. According to CBRI, the whole variety of columns on the bottom ground is 160, the primary ground 132, and the second ground 74, these are all product of sandstone and carved on the surface. The embellished sanctum sanctorum is lined with white makrana marble quarried from Rajasthan. Incidentally, the Taj Mahal was made utilizing marble from the Makrana mines.
“After analyzing around 50 computer models, the chosen model, preserving the Nagara style of architecture, ensures both performance and architectural integrity. Proposed modifications enhance the structure’s architecture while maintaining safety against a 2500-year return period earthquake. Notably, the dry-jointed structure designed for a 1000-year lifespan consists solely of interlocked stone, without steel reinforcement,” CBRI says.
The institute has been concerned within the development of Ram Mandir since early 2020 and has contributed the next in a venture mode: structural design of the principle temple; design of the ‘Surya Tilak’ mechanism; design vetting of the temple basis, and structural well being monitoring of the principle temple.
Dr Sharda Srinivasan, an archaeologist specializing in heritage metals working on the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru says “The traditional style of temple architecture in earlier periods was of the dry masonry and remarkably used no mortar nor any iron and steel, (although of course in later periods such as in the 12th century Konarak temple the use of numerous structural iron beams is seen as well as iron dowels in some temples). The Mortis and Tenon method of joining rocks was used traditionally to hold blocks together i.e. with interlocking grooves and pegs, and the use of the trabeate system of lintels spanning columns with horizontal beams was used. The carved columns often monolithic, had a more swollen capital to bear the vertical loads, while the shikara was built by the corbelling technique with lintels and going progressively inwards to form a more pyramidal shape. These aspects are also seen in the colossal feat of the sandstone Ram Temple, while sandstone also has a better tensile strength amongst stones to support the trabeate structure.”
Ramancharla asserts “The temple may have a heritage architecture as its base, but most modern finite element analysis, most sophisticated software tools, and the 21st century building codes are what define the Ram Temple.”
“There can be no doubts that based on the current state of the art knowledge the Ram Mandir will surely survive more than a thousand years,” explains Ramancharla who provides “It was a most enjoyable experience and great learning exercise as such challenges come maybe once in a lifetime.”