HAND CRAFTED

HOMES
 Uniqueness
Hand made
Should reflect the works of craftmanship

 Handpicking building
components
 Indigeneous hand – crafted
alternatives care used wherever
possible
Why not famous?

• Lack of knowledge and the

skills for the implementation.

• Skilled labours
Most of the works
are done in site
itself
TECHNIQUE
S

Rammed earth
Wattle and Daub

Tadelakt
Straw bale
Natural paints Natural plasters

Oxide flooring Filler’s slab

Plasterings
Thappi plaster

Egg lime plastering

 Athangudi tiles for Flooring

Oxide Flooring
EGG LIME PLASTERING

For 100 kg lime powder

30 egg whites,
3kg wild aloe vera,
10 kg palm jaggery
10 kg Herbal nut
200kg filter sand
Ochre home - Bangalore

Rammed earth
construction
 BODHI
Eugene Pandala
Location : Kerala
 For construction, COB technique were used

This particular house has been built

from mud dug out from the site itself

• Ferrocement roofings
• Mud walls

Mushroom like appearance

Extremely malleable and
light-weight ferro-cement
topped by a layer of
potter tiles to make it
more durable.

 “rib-and-skin roof”
 Three courtyards are the
crowning glory of this project.

Perforated wall topped by a

tiara of bougainvillea
MATERIALS
Walls
 Mud, clay and cement 

Roof
 Ferro-cement and potter tiles 

Floor 
Terracotta tiles 

WINDOWS
 Teakwood frames and mild steel
grills
A man-made pond crusted with waterlilies.
Location : Thirukalukundram Area – 3000 sq.ft
Hand made doors

Hand sculpted stone

pillars from
mahaballipuram
 hand made skirtings
Athangudi tiles for cooling effect
Location : Bangalore

Artist house
Paintings
WALL HOUSE
Anupama kundoo
Location : Auroville
 The double height volume
of the house enhances the
air stack movement and
increases the draft of
ventilation.

EXPOSED BRICKS LONG STEPS

The house is simple, with clearly defined lines and masses, yet the play in the volumes is such that it becomes hard to
distinguish where the inside ends and the outside begins .
•  Catenary vaults using hollow
clay tubes have been used for
climatic insulation

•  also to reduce the unnecessary

use of steel in pucca roofs

PLAN
 Construction of • Easy construction
CATENERY VAULTS • Quicker
• Reduces energy

• No cement
• No concrete
• No water
• The flat terraced roof was built using
hollow burnt clay extruded modules
over part pre-cast beams as in a jack
arch

• which were specially manufactured

locally for the purpose of finding
insulated roofing solutions for flat
roofs.

GUEST ROOM
CASA ROJO
Benny Kuriakose
Location : wayand
Vernacular style

Patterns on the riser

Location : Ramapauram, Chennai
Hand crafted door
from pondicherry
Art deco Furniture &
hand crafted window
Accessories
CONCLUSION
• It creates a sense of tradition and a touch of history.

• Helps in promoting hand craftmanship

• Spreading the knowledge among the people

Thank you !