Cleaning the Mosque

Cleaning the mosque

In the settlement area of Kampung Naga, the use of water is only found at the mosque, as part of religious rituals before prayer. Besides, sometimes people also use it to wash food materials. This water tub has 2 tanks which are used to separate water from the river or the spring.

  • Project: Kampung Naga
  • Climate: Tropical – Mild temperate humid
  • Year: Current
  • Water Type: Fresh water
  • Landscape: Plains
  • Meaning: Utilitarian
  • Water workers & users: Inhabitants
  • Material: Concrete & Stone
  • Period: Fixed construction for daily activities
  • Use or Function : Cleaning rituals before prayer, washing food materials

Baoli (water stories)

Baoli
Stepwell

Rainwater and natural stormwater channels from Delhi ridge are stored in the ground and it is directly accessible to people by a flight of stairs. The narrow staircase is divided into three parts, which runs along the inner three walls of rectangular baoli.

  • Project Name: Delhi Sultanate Waterworks, Ancient network of water harvesting structures, Delhi, India
  • Climate: Overlap of humid subtropical and semi-arid
  • Year: 1206 A.D. – 1526 A.D.
  • Water type: Drinkable rainwater
  • Landscape type: Ridge landscape
  • Altitude: 220-230 m.a.s.l
  • Soil condition: Alluvium, Quartzitic ridge
  • Material: Delhi quartzite stone
  • Period: Fixed
  • Form: Surface
  • Use or function: Water harvesting

Curugan

Curugan
Gutter

The houses in Kampung Naga are built on a raised platform in a linear arrangement. This level difference forms a gutter that is bounded by river stones, creating storm -water drainage channels.

  • Project:: Kampung Naga
  • Climate: Tropical – Mild temperate humid
  • Year: Current
  • Water Type: Fresh water
  • Landscape: Plain
  • Altitude: 584 m.a.s.l
  • Soil Condition: Inceptisols & Entisols
  • Material: Fluvial rocks
  • Temporality: Fixed
  • Form: Line Use or
  • Function : Stormwater drainage

Air Nyusu

Air Nyusu
Spring water

A system to extract the spring water by creating a hole against the hill wall and channeling the water with pipes to the platform underneath. The spring water is a result of water infiltration through the pristine ‘forbidden’ forest and filtered by its roots. The people of Kampung Naga use it as a source for drinking water.

  • Project: Kampung Naga
  • Climate: Tropical – Mild temperate humid
  • Year: Current
  • Water Type: Freshwater
  • Landscape: Valley
  • Altitude: 584 m.a.s.l
  • Soil Condition: Inceptisols & Entisols
  • Material: Stones, Concrete, Pipes
  • Period: Fixed
  • Form: Point
  • Use or Function: Potable water source

Balong

Balong
  • Project: Kampung Naga
  • Climate: Tropical – Mild temperate humid
  • Year: Current
  • Water Type: Fresh water
  • Landscape: Plain
  • Altitude: 584 m.a.s.l
  • Soil Condition: Inceptisols & Entisols
  • Material: Fluvial rocks & Concrete
  • Period: Fixed
  • Form: Surface
  • Use or Function : Fish farming, natural water purification

Bund

Bund
Embankment

Water harvesting mud embankments restrain natural streams of stormwater runoff in its upper reaches and direct it for storage in hauz (lake) and baoli (stepwell).

  • Project Name: Delhi Sultanate Waterworks, Ancient network of water harvesting structures, Delhi, India
  • Climate: Overlap of humid subtropical and semi arid
  • Year: 1206 A.D. – 1526 A.D.
  • Water type: Drinkable rainwater
  • Landscape type: Ridge landscape
  • Altitude: 220-230 m.a.s.l
  • Soil condition: Alluvium, Quartzitic ridge
  • Material: Stone masonry
  • Period: Fixed
  • Form: Point
  • Use or function: Water directing

Baoli (water works)

Baoli
Stepwell

Rainwater and natural storm water channels from Delhi ridge is stored in ground and it is directly accessible to people by a flight of stairs. The narrow staircase is divided into three parts, which runs along inner three walls of rectangular baoli.

  • Project Name: Delhi Sultanate Waterworks, Ancient network of water harvesting struc-tures, Delhi, India
  • Climate: Overlap of humid subtropical and semi arid
  • Year: 1206 A.D. – 1526 A.D.
  • Water type: Drinkable rainwater
  • Landscape type: Ridge landscape
  • Altitude: 220-230 m.a.s.l
  • Soil condition: Alluvium, Quartzitic ridge
  • Material: Delhi quartzite stone
  • Period: Fixed
  • Form: Surface
  • Use or function: Water harvesting

Ereng

Ereng
Rock dam and channel

The waterways flow the river water into the main irrigation channel leading to Kampung Naga. It utilizes piles of alluvial rocks that can be adjusted according to the seasonal change of the river water discharge. The people in Kampung Naga maintain this system manually as part of community activities to maintain social bonds.

  • Project: Kampung Naga
  • Climate: Tropical – Mild temperate humid
  • Year: Current
  • Water Type: Fresh water
  • Landscape: River
  • Altitude: 584 m.a.s.l
  • Soil Condition: Alluvial Soil
  • Material: Fluvial rocks & River boulders
  • Period: Regulated based on seasons
  • Form: Line
  • Use or Function : Regulate water discharge from the river

Sawah

Sawah
Terraced rice fields

Successively receding platforms, which were a result from cutting a piece of sloped plane to resemble steps, bordered by a small embankment to grow rice crops which need a flooded area to be grown. Bamboo pipes connect the field parcels and distribute the water.

  • Project: Kampung Naga
  • Climate: Tropical – Mild temperate humid
  • Year: Current
  • Water Type: Freshwater
  • Landscape: Terraced valley
  • Altitude: 584 m.a.s.l
  • Soil Condition: Inceptisols & EntisolsMaterial: paddy soils
  • Period: Fixed
  • Form: Surface
  • Use or Function: Agriculture

Hauz

Hauz
Lake

Water tanks which harvest rainwater and stormwater during monsoon season. Main function of the hauz was to collect rainwater over a large expanse of land.

  • Project Name: Delhi Sultanate Waterworks, Ancient network of water harvesting structures, Delhi, India
  • Climate: Overlap of humid subtropical and semi-arid
  • Year: 1206 A.D. – 1526 A.D.
  • Water type: Drinkable rainwater
  • Landscape type: Ridge landscape
  • Altitude: 220-230 m.a.s.l
  • Soil condition: Alluvium, Quartzitic ridge
  • Material: Excavated soil
  • Period: Fixed
  • Form: Surface
  • Use/ function: Water harvesting