Tag Archives: vernacular architecture

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Architects: @ The Centre for Vernacular Architecture

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My husband dreams of a mud and brick geometrical home in a far-away village by the pond. I think I am in his dreamland.

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These brick , mud, random rubble and laterite stone oppulant spaces are created by The Centre for Vernacular Architecture. The centre is a non-profit organisation and a co-operative of building crafts persons.

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The centre creates spaces that are cost effective, ecologically sensible and culturally relevant.

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Go on to amazing journey of each space which offers surprises like water-body co-existence, wall mural, spaces created in brick walls for light, blue oxide bathroom, water tap and attangudi cement tiles.

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a mud wall and coloured bottles

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Can you guess that it is innovative use of empty glass bottles!

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This pictures are from eco-township Navadarshanam situated along the border of Thally reserve forest at Tamilnadu and Karnataka borders. Here an alternate way of life and working is translated in ecological living. The homes are built with Sun baked mud blocks for walls, terracotta tiles, red oxide and cement for flooring.
Terracotta and cement jaalis (lattice), recycled wood and bottles are used as design accents.

See more photos of this eco-community here and here.