Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements & Housing

acash

Advisory Center for Affordable Settlements and Housing
ACASH

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Publish Date18/12/2013
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Published ByNational Institute of Technology Karnataka, Karnataka, India
Edited BySuneela Farooqi
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Mud Architecture in India

Man has always built with natural materials, building with mud/earth, the most natural of all building materials poses a special challenge. Architecture today is discriminated by cold hard, machine-made building materials. While all previous attempts to replace these with a more plastic, environmentally friendly material have resulted in a region of the structure of technical dimension of the architecture, building with mud offers a unique possibility of synthesis. An exploration into the possibilities of mud as building material is especially relevant in country like India.

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