Appropriate Technologies and Sustainable Construction: M.Bhuvanasundar Sundarsundaram Architects
Appropriate Technologies and Sustainable Construction: M.Bhuvanasundar Sundarsundaram Architects
Appropriate Technologies and Sustainable Construction: M.Bhuvanasundar Sundarsundaram Architects
SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION
M.BHUVANASUNDAR
SUNDARSUNDARAM ARCHITECTS
MUD ARCHITECTURE
Between twenty and thirty million families in our country do not have anything
like your living accommodation and these 20 odd million families do not have
anything that can even remotely be called a home or a house or even a hut.
Unfortunately these days so many of us think that we can only build “properly”
and “satisfactorily” by using such items as reinforced concrete, cement blocks,
burnt bricks, etc. But equally unfortunately the manufacture of steel and
cement for reinforced concrete is now called “energy intensive”. An enormous
amount of energy that is some sort of fuel-is used to manufacture these so-
called essential materials. Furthermore we do not really have enough cement to
go round and quite large quantities are imported, Although bricks are made of
mud, we burn or bake them to make bricks. In many parts of the country; to do
this, we use firewood to make the bricks hard and strong.
Mud may be old fashioned is a plus point - it has tested and tried over thousands
of years whereas concrete has been in circulation for less than a hundred years,
but it could be successfully used even for the best houses, and, indeed, if all of us
are to go into 21st century with a roof over our 700-800 million heads we will only
be able to do it if we put mud into its rightful status.
APPROPRIATE TECHNOLOGIES AND SUSTAINABLE CONSTRUCTION lecture 4
MUD ARCHITECTURE
MUD WALLS MUST BE WHAT DOES A MUD HOUSE THIS ALSO IS A MUD AND THIS TOO CAN BE A
PROTECTED FROM HOUSE MUD HOUSE(AND YES IT
LOOK LIKE?
WATER
IS THIS THE SORT OF IS MULTI-STORIED AND
PICTURE THAT COMES TO HAS A CONCRETE ROOF)
YOUR MIND