Minutes of Meeting, September 12 (re: Digi Chhen Design Review)

This meeting was called to further analyze the revised drawing (http://janabahaa.blogspot.com/2009/09/revised.html) which was arrived at after the meeting of September 8, 2009 (http://janabahaa.blogspot.com/2009/09/minutes-of-meeting-discussion-regarding.html).

All interested individuals and organizations are requested to provide their feedback, comments, criticism, suggestions, contributions and inputs of any kind no later than October 20, 2009 by commenting on this blog or by sending email to info@janabahaa.org.np to help in the decision making process in an efficient, all-encompassing manner.

Minutes (recorded by Umesh Tamrakar)

PROJECT TITLE	Janabaha Agam chen
Meeting title	Site meeting on modified plans
Date	12.09.09
Time	8.30am
Present	Mr. Tirtha Dhar Tuladhar
	Mr. Nil Kaji Shakya
	Mr. Bijay Shrestha
	Mr. Prem Ratna Bajracharya
	Ms. Rajani Tamrakar
	Mr. Dinesh Bajra Bajracharya
	Mr. Indra Raj Bajracharya
	Mr. Alok Tuladhar
	Mr. Jai Rajbhandari
	Mr. Umesh Kaji Tamrakar

SN			PARTICULARS	ACTION
1			Can Bhajan space be relocated? It was agreed that it can.
2			Bhajan space along with office space be combined as multipurpose space for Bhajan, information centre, display hall, meeting etc.	Umesh developing plans
3			One public pay toilet on the ground floor with access from outside and one on upper floors for Gurjus. May be keep the position of the public toilet in the ground floor as is in the drawing with access from Balkumari road.
4			Can Basement/ Semi basement be provided?	New by laws says yes
5			If the ht. permits (i.e not exceeding the ht. of the actual temple) can one more floor be added? As per by laws there is restriction to ht. 35’ for Preserved monument sub zone and 45’ for Cultural heritage sub-zone. For buildings in Preserved monument sub zone maximum 4 storey each 8’ ht.	Ht. of temple is being measured by Graphic survey team on 13.09.09. Umesh to confirm whether this area lies in Preserved monument sub-zone or Cultural heritage sub-zone.
6			Can entrance be made narrower than 13’? Entrance was made smaller from around 16’ to 13’.

Revised!

This revised drawing incorporates all suggestions that came up in the meeting of September 8, 2009 (please see http://janabahaa.blogspot.com/2009/09/minutes-of-meeting-discussion-regarding.html). Thanks to architect Umesh Tamrakar for updating the drawing.

Computerized!

Here is the engineering drawing of the Digi Chhen for its proposed reconstruction, converted to CAD format (digitized) by Umesh Tamrakar from the hand-drawn concept drawing of senior architect Bibhuti Man Singh (please see earlier posts at http://janabahaa.blogspot.com/2009/09/minutes-of-meeting-discussion-regarding.html and http://janabahaa.blogspot.com/2009/09/modern-architecture-is-spiritually-dead.html).