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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Document Type | General |
Publish Date | 18/12/2013 |
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Published By | National Institute of Technology Karnataka, Karnataka, India |
Edited By | Suneela Farooqi |