The leading university in India will teach 8000 years of architectural sciences

Since August this year, architectural students at Kharagpur, a school where Google's Sundar Pichai has studied, will be taking part in an ancient Indian science course called Vastu Shastra.Researchers have suggested that Vastu Shastra was born and developed between 6000 and 3000 BC. The characteristic of this type of architecture is to make the most of geographic and topographic locations and other natural elements such as sunlight, temperature, wind direction, moon position and the Earth's magnetic field.


Vastu Shastra possesses similarities with the feng shui concept of China, mainly focusing on harmony in human life for the surrounding environment.

Many of India's ancient temples and other buildings were built on the basis of Vastu Shastra's principles combined with the architectural features of the Rig Veda - the collection of Sanskrit hymns Ancient.Joy Sen, Dean of the Ranbir and Chitra Gupta Department of Management and Infrastructure in Kharagpur, said: "With the advent of green technology, green lifestyles and affordable materials, more and more People are oriented towards the lifestyle close to nature. As a result, Vastu Ahastra was also more widely adopted. It can be said that vastu is a science that uses the correlation between ecology, passive energy and humans as well as other organisms. "

Kharagpur Institute has decided to put this subject into the planning of the next semester syllabus. In the immediate future, they will integrate Vatsu Shastra with two existing modules in his undergraduate and graduate system. Specifically, the most basic concepts will be taught to the students studying at IIT. The graduate program will focus on more in-depth issues such as the principles of solar energy, the types of sacred schemes, the structural design of hieroglyphs and semantics.

Last week, in one of his lectures, Sen gave an interesting example of this type of architecture: "In the past, households used to design a courtyard between their homes. In addition, they also built various bedrooms dedicated to winter and summer. All of these are calculated according to the natural principle. "