I am from Pakistan, settled in Turkey, I am really impressed by the Indian women seeing how they have risen in society and how they are contributing with confidence and competence. 👏👍
I have been living with my family along with my parents in a joint family since 1985 .This sweet home had constructed with Mud,Lime stone and Bamboo architecture by our ancestors. . This Construction nearly 120 years have been successfully completed . .I really feel good living in Mud house
Hi Ma’am, I am a phd scholar. Can I please have a conversation with you about your strong sustainable ancestral house. Like the materials and technology they have used and your experience in living there. I would love to write an article on this.
@@STUDYSMARTTUBE then do check the "tharavadu" naalukettu houses of kerala.Thousands of ppl still live in such structures which cud be there ancestral home since 100-400 years.Its basically making construction materials with what u have in your area.In kerala we didnt have hard rocks as such so we used big laterite stones shaped into bricks with limestone mixture and all decorative works and furniture in diff type of wood bcz we are a more green state. Some other states wud have bamboo or hard rocks in abundance.
Mud Buildings last for multiple generations, I live in my ancestral house made of mud, lime, wood and stone , 80 years and still going strong. Its cool in the summers and cozy in the winters.
Please could you let me know the name of your village so I could study how the houses are built, as I too wish to build a house like this where it is not only mud but combined with different other natural materials. Many thanks 🙏
Loosing the love of our lives is the worst thing happens in our lives. It's the kind of deadly pain that we have to live every single day. I am sure you love is watching you wherever he is and you have to live and show him a new version of you. More power to you. ❤
Everyday you will grow stronger. The only person you can ever depend on is you. Rely on yourself, you may surprise yourself. Start with setting yourself little tasks, every challenge you overcome will give you a huge sense of achievement.
Inspirational. Re-writing history of early Indus Valley before they discovered fired bricks. Awesome. An Applause for the women architects and masons involved. Shows that women have gone beyond their usual skills. Bravo . Best wishes from 🇲🇾🇲🇾
MY NAME IS ALSO SATYANARAYANA FROM HYDERABAD INDIA NICK NAME SATI BRO RECENTLY MY BUSINESS IS A LOST IHAVE TWO CHILDRENS BOY STUDYING 10 CLASS MY DAUGHTER 8CLASS IAM TOTALLY NO INCOME CAN U HELP MY CHILDS EDUCATIONS : SPONSORS FOR THEIR EDUCATION I ALWAYS GREATE FULL TO U SIR
Feels soo good to know that my fellow Indian women are the drivers of this change! I do wish to contribute a small part to your journey from my end and I will get in touch with your team for my dream house. All the very best for your future endeavors!
@@arpanmandal7244How ironic when you are the one watching a video of these "unproductive" people and also taking out your precious time to comment on their videos.
What amazing women. What struck me most was their respect for each other and the intelligence with which they approached their work. The gave value to the concept and process as much as the outcome. Anyway nothing lasts for ever or no single family lives in a house for ever and what is important is did we enjoy building and living in the house without killing the planet. May the ladies go from strength to strength.
Mud houses have been around for centuries especially in places like India, Pakistan, Egypt, Algeria, Oman and Saudi Arabia but due to modernity people have moved more towards concrete and cement buildings which retain heat and cold. So bringing back these mud house with newer architectural styles and design is wonderful idea. I am actually considering building this type of house pretty soon when i migrate to my new destination where it’s extremely hot. The lady who lost her husband made me cry but how brave was she to start her life with fresh idea, hope she achieved her dream fully. As for the 2 young architects, I love the fact they decided to work with the old technique using local community, i hope they achieve much success and stick to involving the community as they go from strength to strength.
Absolutely fascinating! Rosie Paul and Sridevi Changali are not just architects, they're eco-warriors wielding mud as their weapon of choice against carbon footprints and unsustainable building practices. Who knew that mud, that humble earthy substance, could hold such magic? Its ability to breathe life into a home, improving air quality and keeping mold at bay, is truly remarkable. And let's not forget its talent for playing the long game with thermal mass, giving us cooler nights without the need for power-hungry air conditioning units. But perhaps the most inspiring part is their commitment to empowering women in architecture and on the construction site. It's like they're building not just sustainable homes, but a more equitable future in mud and stone. Here's to the mud architects, the dreamers of sustainable dwellings, and the champions of a greener, more inclusive world! 🌿🏠💪
Use of bamboo , straw, mud are less costly and maintain cold temperature during day and night. The outer coating of the wall are using desi cowdung and sand as plasters
Love the video. Using less carbon to build a home May I suggest if you are going to build a home from scratch, first dig underground to create air cooling tunnels. Air from outside cools as it travels underground and thru the tunnels/piping then the cold air goes up into the house. It keeps the homes much cooler when it is very hot outside. There are some good UA-cam videos of layouts for air cooling tunnels.
I'm hearing of this for the first time. I did some searching and came up with some interesting results: ua-cam.com/users/results?search_query=geothermal+air+cooling+house For example, this gem for cooling: ua-cam.com/video/wzUqcpDa4Rs/v-deo.html Not what you are talking about but mud-related, and seems to work.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I'm from East Africa ... I'd love to build an organic house some day. We also use mud and cow dung in construction/building. However , it is not common anymore ... synthetic factory produced building materials took over a while back. I will stick with you guys for more ideas. Be blessed 🙏
Excellent. I am at loss of words to appreciate you. Social Responsibility and economics is something which majority of Architects do not think about. To cater for someone with limited funds and sustainable materials should be must for Architects. My complements to all of you. Wish you best. AP Singh Architect.
I get that the ladies are saying: Do something meaningful for life and the environment instead of looking to gratify ourselves personally in shopping and indulgences. That better feelings will come through doing better things for life. And I totally agree with that. And in places where working with mud is not possible so much, then work with plant life. Volunteer your time to worthy and natural causes.
Beautiful things happening in India - water-harvesting, sustainable architecture….please keep it coming! When you have 15% of the global population, how you move forward is critical to the health of the planet 🙏😊🇨🇦
I fully support living sustainably. We've damaged the Earth for convenience and selfishness, clogging natural waterways with buildings and businesses. Our pursuit of wealth has left us emotionally impoverished. We've forgotten the simple joys of life and instead measure ourselves by our possessions. We're rediscovering ancient wisdom but have also brought irreversible challenges to the world. In short, we've lost sight of what truly matters while chasing after material wealth. Kudos to the Mason's Ink team. I live in Canada but dream of contributing to my hometown in Kerala, India. There’s a Native American saying: “When the blood in your veins returns to the sea, and the earth in your bones returns to the ground, perhaps then you will remember that this land does not belong to you; it is you who belong to this land"
Hi...in 2005, a German Mason had come to Bangalore to teach women labourers masonry...I worked with him for a couple of years, unfortunately the project failed for the reason that women labourers at the end of the day are also in charge of their homes and children and being incharge at work too was proving too stressful for them and they could not travel to far away sites from their homes....but it was an interesting experiment
Empowerment for the sake of pseudo sense of empowerment is gonna backfire. We have to just open about whoever comes, who want to contribute in whatever meaningful way should be appreciated irrespective of gender. Otherwise it will fail.
From Hundreds of years , Indian living in a mud house, u can get many people in India who know how to build a mud house. Why do you want German teachers?
Congrats! Good effort! Hinduism considers human life sacred not sinful. Sin and karma are different concepts. Sin is an evil act while Karma is any action and its consequence. Hope you grow and expand to other states and cities.
Thanks for stating it loud. As soon as I heard her saying..."Hinduism says we born with some kind of sin and then work your way to sinless life"..... I screamed...NOOOOOOOOO......;sin' is a Christian concept..... we are childern of Immortal/Pure.... Amritasya Putraha !!!
i didnt understand y u said this before watching vid. but @1:20 it became clear. yeah, she lacks understanding and is just following these just for sake of it. even that is good in general. but yeah, when u r on a bigger platform - like she here, u have to be proper in what u portray. if u dont know, then just dont say anyth rather than saying it wrong.
This is not new. I’m living in a similar home for the past 24 years. There are plenty of houses built this way using mud. If one wants to have it, one can always find the right people to do this sort of a house. People do so much research and go in search of specific flooring material, wanting teak from Burma for main door. Similar effort is needed to have a home of this sort. Aping your neighbour will yield mundane, energy intensive, excess use of material & guady home.
" This is not new" of course not, we can go back hundreds if not thousands of years and see we built with mud. we are re-learning what we knew but in our arrogance threw to the wayside.
And used everywhere. Best if made from "cob" for better integrity. "Good shoes and hat" adds to durability, as does a hard lime coat. Some of the better looking houses are made from this.
They also are not claiming to be the 'discoverers' of it. However these days, it seems we have forgotten the old ways and it is good they are reminding us that traditional methods are actually better
I feel one thing after watching this video you guys are doing amazing 😍😍😍 ticking all the boxes which is very important for our society and environment..🙏🙏🙏
No one talking about the cute cute and friendly dog. Clearly it was raised in a loving and nurturing environment by how it treated its owners acquantances.
the lady in yellow t-shirt did not even shed a tear but made me cry ,idk why but i felt something and the energy the positive energy you women's sparkling is different, now a days ppl only just talking about environment sustainability but not actually working on it but this is something very different.
Extraordinary work done by these women. Great job.! I would like to build such a house in a 1200 sq feet plot I own in my native place in Kanyakumari district, Tamilnadu and live my retirement life there. I want it to happen in the next 5 years. Hope someone like these folks are there at that time to help me construct such a house there.
I have lived my whole childhood in a village style mud house and i can surely say that in summers our house used to be cooler than our other neighbours . The only con was during rainy season our house used to get really wet and attracted lot of insects ...but more or less those are some good old memories having special place in my heart
It's such an inspiring and beautiful video. It gives hope about the ecologic construction, and especially when we see the most important, the human part, with people are sharing and building together. And women can do all and you show it perfectly. Congrats for your work and project, and thanks for that.
I have always felt that traditional methods and materials were better for the environment. I would love to have a home constructed with materials that would not damage the beautiful earth. I admire these women for what they are doing.
This is the new version of India and i am 100% sure that our future is safe. Slowly we will beat all odds & will be back to nature way of living. Masons Ink's name will be written with golden mud in the history. Kudos to the rockstar team!
Great work girls. I admire your enthusiasm & belief in your art. Its wonderful you are getting the local community especially the women to participate in the work. All the best👍👏👏
This is not new to India ,but this is new to English and more than that it is new to Architects . In vilage to build a house there are set people who work professionally . But there is no engineer no architect no English , just heard work, great emotions and feelings, respect, and value for money, retrievals life and life building.
Excellent. Very happy to see the house of nature. We have an ancestral house built in mud built 100+ years old. Little renovation done, very nice to live in that house.
Mud house is cost effective,cosy, cold in summer,hot in cold.we have two storied mud house 100y old with straw roof which is easily repaired at low cost.cow houses are always a mud house.
This is why we need more women in every field. Their bodies and minds are tuned to nature - so they instinctively orient their profession toward nature's rhythm and essence.
i used to think so too. that majority of them is better than majority of males in their orentation. but i think the greed, jealousy, capitalism and bad influence of males has been growing a LOT on them lately. i have ssen at my institute, in family, family or relatives, neighbourhood, in movie cultures etc etc. and i came to same conclusion again, its okay to have presumptions, but never follow the presumptions. start afresh with each case with balanced caution & hope. > _"Women's bodies and minds are tuned to nature - so they instinctively orient their profession toward nature's rhythm and essence."_
@@yash1152 Greed, jealousy, capitalism - these are not distributed according to gender - all have it. Men don't have it more or less - it has more to do with upbringing, experiences and learnings. I am only saying that women are naturally tuned to be in rhythm with nature. Their hormones and cycles that are in tune with nature, seasons and time and their natural tendency to nurture and take untold pain for that - all of these are assets of a woman's personality. How much each woman actually makes it shine may vary, but all have it. A woman who has evolved well into her true feminine self brings that aspect into her profession as well. And that does not mean that she will not experience greed, jealousy, etc. But something has to be said about how much women are judged more for having it and men aren't. As women enter the free and competitive world, these aspects become more glaring to observers and some are shocked like you.
My dream you’ll have full filled hats off to our younger generation keep going teach others,proud of you’ll & your parents & teachers Mashaallah Allhamdullilah
I saw a video of a guy who built his house from straw blocks with wooden scaffolding and covered the walls with a layer of clay. What's weird is that the house looked normal, but I'm not sure what's the durability of such construction. Anyway I suspect there would be people happy to live in such homes in many countries in the world, because it costs almost nothing (depending on what's used to cover the roof).
Gr8 achievement. Girls..keep going to save d environment which is badly needed. D coolness inside these houses in summer n d heat in winter, real bliss. Going back in time...❤❤❤
In Hinduism we do not treat a person or anything is born with sin. That’s the Christianity concept! The bhumi puja is done to say sorry to nature and the living things that had the soil as home, and asking the bhumi (land) to forgive for occupying it! And for equipment we pray to say we be successful and prosper using it and no untoward incidents happen with the equipment!
It's good to see young architect employing traditional way of building structure using indigenous material available on the site where it is to be built.
9:15 What? The process of making lime itself is done by releasing naturally sequestered CO2 seashells into atmosphere. Lime itself is a subtance that cause a lot more emission than it can in a building, only the miniscule part that's in contact with atmosphere will absoarb CO2. It is very disingenuous to posture and greenwash lime as a net carbon absorber...Its not. Its like forgetting the resource intensivity of making brass and then posing the tarnish in its surface as a miracle solution for the resource it exhausted
Your argument is disingenuous and solely made to gratify your captiousness. There are worse materials used then lime. By curtailing them you automatically improve environmental concerns. Eg. lime made from from Oyster shells, a waste product of the food, heated by biomethane, also a waste product of the food industry is a better alternative than lime from mined rocks and heated with fossils fuel.
@@estebancorral5151 Sorry. But I'm someone working with carbon capturing, especially in romance weathering which replaces liming soil because the process emits Carbon dioxide and also has a background in Geology. I would like you to remember that my point of contention was presenting lime as a carbon capture material, which is just plain wrong. Both limestone in cement and lime making from shells go the same step to expell the carbon dioxide. I never contested the fact that using lime removes the process of mining. But that it's what she said and neither is it the point I timestamped. So please do not misrepresent my words and neither should you justify the misrepresentation of lime as a carbon capture material. Inserting some half truth statements here and there, in between largely accurate information- is how disinformation spreads. While she was advertising lime as something that captures carbon dioxide, she conveniently omitted the fact that it is not a net carbon sink, but instead lime is a net carbon emitter. Not being forthright about that, especially in such a video, is very disingenuous. Btw, CaO made from calcination of both mined limestone and shells are both called lime. So unless you make sure that the lime you are using is from shells, you could still be using the same mined product cement industry use. P.S You mentioned mining. Comparing the effect of net emissions and physical effect of mining is worthwhile here, since you seem to suggest that we should rather focus on that. What mining does is cause surface geomorophological changes. It has always happened in nature, its part of Earth's geological system called weathering and erosion, which happens by many mechanical and chemical action and biogenic activity, animal activity like burrowing and boring is also a weathering agent. And human activity is just a subtext of that, which is just anthropogenic activity. Mining by itself does not interfere, change or destabilize or disrupt any geochemical cycles or larger systems; unlike green house gas emissions. All it does, is make a very localized change in topography. So, when you choose a material, your priority should be what its net emission including considering which one actuallyhave industry methods to capture and sequester the emissions, rather that whether it cause a morphological change in a location. And small scale industries where lime making from shells are done don't have much of any CCS systems in place to sequster the emissions
Love this!!! Great project and also gives me the new point of looking for the subject of building a home: woman can also do it! That is super, gives us more posibilites.
Team your work are inspiring, and definitely your efforts on climate change, sustainable construction definitely reach all and help in well being of future generation. 🙏🙏🙏
In Uttarakhand Rural area we used to build homes with mud, stone and wood. Full on Environment friendly but now People using cement, iron,bricks and forget that it is bad for environment and for people.
These are materials humanity built with wherever we are found. Before greed came. Well done, ladies. Women do it better - as this so-called 'man' can confirm. Feeling, preservation and sustainability, with a smile. No guns anywhere close. Please spread your message to our bungling world. Best of luck.
Small correction, in Hinduism we are not born with sin…. We are born pure…. We acquire habits (vasanas) Removing negative energy part is correct… we remove negative energy and spread positive energy by doing pooja…. Apart from that, awesome work! Keep it up!
Dung from local cow breeds is far less stinky than that of imported breeds. Also it is having better consistency and is a treasure trove of beneficial bacteria. That is why it has been used as bio fertilizer in India for thousands of years.
i wanted to build my house like mr. thomas. but i couldn't. there is limited access to sufficient resources including the know-how about the bricks and the equipment then i have to involve myself in teaching them to make the brick, and i have to simultaneously fight with my family and relatives to teach them that this IS a real thing and that it can easily outlast my requirements. but i couldn't. building a home is in itself a huge task and pressure for an average man. almost nobody is going to go to extra lengths to find the know-how and take a risk of building something out of mud. its still perceived as high risk since his neighbours didnt build it that way. most people struggle to build a single house in their lifetime and they are not willing to take that risk. if you want to take it to the vast majority, then build something on a really large scale lets say a housing district of 20 buildings of 20 floors each. let someone like Narendra Modi inaugurate it. even people who dont give a damn about the environment should be able to give it a go. like the electric cars. people buy them now because they are cheaper to run in the long term. not because they are environmentally friendly or anything. only then people all over the world will take notice. There is no point in building a 1000sq ft home in a rural village for a person who is retired and has the time to do all the research about the mud bricks and be involved in each aspect of the building. no. if an average Indian has to build it then he should be able to select it off the shelf. i want you to succeed with this and quick. but the projects are too tiny now. go big. go big. go big. that should be your only mantra. scale it great heights. mud blocks are exactly where they started some 100 years ago. at this pace, it'll remain there for the next 100 if its not adapted in the cities.
@@estebancorral5151 ofcourse the Pharaohs didn't build the pyramids, they delegated it to someone. We'll have that irrelevant debate some other day. What I tried to imply or point out is that the know how is not commonplace enough for common people to consider it as an option. As you rightly pointed out it has to become a priority to build a house that way. I am not trying to belittle their effort, I respect their intentions. But I just felt that they have to slightly shift and refocus their attention to have the maximum impact in our society. Societal upliftment is more important than my "inner turmoil".
@@menons1989 you are victim of this very same thing. Since you are inspired by Pharoahnic Egypt. I would share some light upon you. Back in the 70’s, a Cairene said exactly what you said. His name was Hassan Fathy. He wrote the book, “Architecture for the Poor.” He left the relative ease found in Cairo to help people in the poorest part of Egypt…Nubia. These people were so ignorant that they had a hard time believing him that the spreading of disease was caused be germs. He revitalized the ancient, Egyptian Construction techniques using mud bricks. Though simple, they were liveable and beautiful. The book won International awards. Find this book and read it.
Your idea reflects that why as human what role I need to play to save this universe, provide rural employment and save the traditional skills and techniques. Is there a similar house build where one can experience living naturally?
My mud house 🏠 was older than 150 years. It was destroyed at end for making corporate building. I couldn't express my feelings to Father but I never wanted that because I was born in that home 😢
This is not new in Indian village....I also live in a mud house since 20 yr..... it's good to see that is recognised in global stage
I am from Pakistan, settled in Turkey, I am really impressed by the Indian women seeing how they have risen in society and how they are contributing with confidence and competence. 👏👍
Not any Muslim women either, still they r slaves
Hope same energy comes to islam womens so they can come out of burqa
true pakistani women are far behind
Definately Farook, Pakistani women are great too.
@@eswaribalan164 like wearing and accompanying male to even bring vegetables, wah wah so muvh freedom in Pakistan
Videos like this are what makes UA-cam worth watching.
only reason i support youtube... else its a zerotube
Paid
@@ir7412Not paid.
I have been living with my family along with my parents in a joint family since 1985 .This sweet home had constructed with Mud,Lime stone and Bamboo architecture by our ancestors. .
This Construction nearly 120 years have been successfully completed . .I really feel good living in Mud house
Hi Ma’am, I am a phd scholar. Can I please have a conversation with you about your strong sustainable ancestral house. Like the materials and technology they have used and your experience in living there. I would love to write an article on this.
@@STUDYSMARTTUBE Please share article here if you do write it.
@@STUDYSMARTTUBE then do check the "tharavadu" naalukettu houses of kerala.Thousands of ppl still live in such structures which cud be there ancestral home since 100-400 years.Its basically making construction materials with what u have in your area.In kerala we didnt have hard rocks as such so we used big laterite stones shaped into bricks with limestone mixture and all decorative works and furniture in diff type of wood bcz we are a more green state. Some other states wud have bamboo or hard rocks in abundance.
I absolutely support your idea building homes using mud. I feel so tired seeing concretes, steel, and glass everywhere in the world.
I know, and they feel so ugly and empty after a long time.
Yes, very very ugly.
Mud Buildings last for multiple generations, I live in my ancestral house made of mud, lime, wood and stone , 80 years and still going strong. Its cool in the summers and cozy in the winters.
Please could you let me know the name of your village so I could study how the houses are built, as I too wish to build a house like this where it is not only mud but combined with different other natural materials. Many thanks 🙏
Go to any villages in India u will definitely see mud houses@@moutussiacharyya7510
Lost the love of my life at 53 yrs old. Devastating to try and start over at this age. Congratulations on making a huge effort.
So sorry to hear about your loss. Try to stay strong madam🙏
53 years old is not old in Europe. It's really a good period of life. Move!
Loosing the love of our lives is the worst thing happens in our lives. It's the kind of deadly pain that we have to live every single day. I am sure you love is watching you wherever he is and you have to live and show him a new version of you. More power to you. ❤
Everyday you will grow stronger. The only person you can ever depend on is you. Rely on yourself, you may surprise yourself. Start with setting yourself little tasks, every challenge you overcome will give you a huge sense of achievement.
Inspirational. Re-writing history of early Indus Valley before they discovered fired bricks. Awesome. An Applause for the women architects and masons involved. Shows that women have gone beyond their usual skills. Bravo . Best wishes from 🇲🇾🇲🇾
MY NAME IS ALSO SATYANARAYANA FROM HYDERABAD INDIA NICK NAME SATI BRO RECENTLY MY BUSINESS IS A LOST IHAVE TWO CHILDRENS BOY STUDYING 10 CLASS MY DAUGHTER 8CLASS IAM TOTALLY NO INCOME CAN U HELP MY CHILDS EDUCATIONS : SPONSORS FOR THEIR EDUCATION I ALWAYS GREATE FULL TO U SIR
Feels soo good to know that my fellow Indian women are the drivers of this change! I do wish to contribute a small part to your journey from my end and I will get in touch with your team for my dream house. All the very best for your future endeavors!
Unproductive people
@@arpanmandal7244What? Why?
@@arpanmandal7244How ironic when you are the one watching a video of these "unproductive" people and also taking out your precious time to comment on their videos.
@@arpanmandal7244Please don't spread Toxicity, it will come back to you only. Get yourself some healing, get well soon. It's 2024 my friend.
The good old 'climate change' fraud. Amazing how many idiots have fallen for this NWO/WEF hoax.
What amazing women. What struck me most was their respect for each other and the intelligence with which they approached their work. The gave value to the concept and process as much as the outcome. Anyway nothing lasts for ever or no single family lives in a house for ever and what is important is did we enjoy building and living in the house without killing the planet. May the ladies go from strength to strength.
Mud houses have been around for centuries especially in places like India, Pakistan, Egypt, Algeria, Oman and Saudi Arabia but due to modernity people have moved more towards concrete and cement buildings which retain heat and cold. So bringing back these mud house with newer architectural styles and design is wonderful idea. I am actually considering building this type of house pretty soon when i migrate to my new destination where it’s extremely hot.
The lady who lost her husband made me cry but how brave was she to start her life with fresh idea, hope she achieved her dream fully.
As for the 2 young architects, I love the fact they decided to work with the old technique using local community, i hope they achieve much success and stick to involving the community as they go from strength to strength.
Still our house is a mud house in my village , It's warm during winters and rainy season, and Cold during summers.
Absolutely fascinating! Rosie Paul and Sridevi Changali are not just architects, they're eco-warriors wielding mud as their weapon of choice against carbon footprints and unsustainable building practices.
Who knew that mud, that humble earthy substance, could hold such magic? Its ability to breathe life into a home, improving air quality and keeping mold at bay, is truly remarkable. And let's not forget its talent for playing the long game with thermal mass, giving us cooler nights without the need for power-hungry air conditioning units.
But perhaps the most inspiring part is their commitment to empowering women in architecture and on the construction site. It's like they're building not just sustainable homes, but a more equitable future in mud and stone.
Here's to the mud architects, the dreamers of sustainable dwellings, and the champions of a greener, more inclusive world! 🌿🏠💪
Thank you so much for your kind words !
great to see women empowerment... good wishes... what a strong love for mother earth
I love the emphasis on green materials.
These architects are empowered!
Use of bamboo , straw, mud are less costly and maintain cold temperature during day and night. The outer coating of the wall are using desi cowdung and sand as plasters
I am living in this type of mud house from my childhood. Great to see that this people promoting mud house.
If any cyclone or earthquake happen will it survive??
@@Discoverer-of-Teleportationyes my 3 generation survived in mud houses only after 21st century mud houses are reducing
Who can help me? I also want a mud house in my Village in Uttarakhand...
Love the video. Using less carbon to build a home May I suggest if you are going to build a home from scratch, first dig underground to create air cooling tunnels. Air from outside cools as it travels underground and thru the tunnels/piping then the cold air goes up into the house. It keeps the homes much cooler when it is very hot outside. There are some good UA-cam videos of layouts for air cooling tunnels.
I'm hearing of this for the first time. I did some searching and came up with some interesting results: ua-cam.com/users/results?search_query=geothermal+air+cooling+house
For example, this gem for cooling: ua-cam.com/video/wzUqcpDa4Rs/v-deo.html Not what you are talking about but mud-related, and seems to work.
came across this video and could not click next button. love for earth, love for human being and love for community. Very genuine emotions
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I'm from East Africa ... I'd love to build an organic house some day. We also use mud and cow dung in construction/building. However , it is not common anymore ... synthetic factory produced building materials took over a while back.
I will stick with you guys for more ideas. Be blessed 🙏
goose bumps while listening to her story. Nature will heal everything. Stay close to nature.
Excellent. I am at loss of words to appreciate you. Social Responsibility and economics is something which majority of Architects do not think about. To cater for someone with limited funds and sustainable materials should be must for Architects. My complements to all of you. Wish you best. AP Singh Architect.
Thank you for your wishes!
I get that the ladies are saying: Do something meaningful for life and the environment instead of looking to gratify ourselves personally in shopping and indulgences. That better feelings will come through doing better things for life. And I totally agree with that. And in places where working with mud is not possible so much, then work with plant life. Volunteer your time to worthy and natural causes.
Beautiful things happening in India - water-harvesting, sustainable architecture….please keep it coming! When you have 15% of the global population, how you move forward is critical to the health of the planet 🙏😊🇨🇦
I fully support living sustainably. We've damaged the Earth for convenience and selfishness, clogging natural waterways with buildings and businesses. Our pursuit of wealth has left us emotionally impoverished. We've forgotten the simple joys of life and instead measure ourselves by our possessions. We're rediscovering ancient wisdom but have also brought irreversible challenges to the world. In short, we've lost sight of what truly matters while chasing after material wealth.
Kudos to the Mason's Ink team.
I live in Canada but dream of contributing to my hometown in Kerala, India.
There’s a Native American saying:
“When the blood in your veins returns to the sea, and the earth in your bones returns to the ground, perhaps then you will remember that this land does not belong to you; it is you who belong to this land"
I love the efforts you are putting, my sister is also an architect working with sustainable houses. We have a mud house which is 509 yrs old.
Awesome
I'm living in a 2 storey compressed mudbrik house in Tamil Nadu
Since 25 years, and I love it.
Empowered women empowering the community. Wonderful!.
Hi...in 2005, a German Mason had come to Bangalore to teach women labourers masonry...I worked with him for a couple of years, unfortunately the project failed for the reason that women labourers at the end of the day are also in charge of their homes and children and being incharge at work too was proving too stressful for them and they could not travel to far away sites from their homes....but it was an interesting experiment
Empowerment for the sake of pseudo sense of empowerment is gonna backfire. We have to just open about whoever comes, who want to contribute in whatever meaningful way should be appreciated irrespective of gender. Otherwise it will fail.
From Hundreds of years , Indian living in a mud house, u can get many people in India who know how to build a mud house.
Why do you want German teachers?
Congrats! Good effort!
Hinduism considers human life sacred not sinful. Sin and karma are different concepts. Sin is an evil act while Karma is any action and its consequence.
Hope you grow and expand to other states and cities.
Thanks for stating it loud. As soon as I heard her saying..."Hinduism says we born with some kind of sin and then work your way to sinless life"..... I screamed...NOOOOOOOOO......;sin' is a Christian concept..... we are childern of Immortal/Pure.... Amritasya Putraha !!!
i didnt understand y u said this before watching vid. but @1:20 it became clear.
yeah, she lacks understanding and is just following these just for sake of it. even that is good in general.
but yeah, when u r on a bigger platform - like she here, u have to be proper in what u portray. if u dont know, then just dont say anyth rather than saying it wrong.
She is a Christian so she is expressing a Christian Viewpoint
I was so thrown off when she said that. I had never heard a single person say that before so I assumed she was conflating sin and karma somehow.
This is why I watch UA-cam. Truly educational and inspiring.
How do we connect with them? Please share leads
This is not new. I’m living in a similar home for the past 24 years. There are plenty of houses built this way using mud. If one wants to have it, one can always find the right people to do this sort of a house. People do so much research and go in search of specific flooring material, wanting teak from Burma for main door. Similar effort is needed to have a home of this sort. Aping your neighbour will yield mundane, energy intensive, excess use of material & guady home.
" This is not new" of course not, we can go back hundreds if not thousands of years and see we built with mud. we are re-learning what we knew but in our arrogance threw to the wayside.
And used everywhere. Best if made from "cob" for better integrity. "Good shoes and hat" adds to durability, as does a hard lime coat.
Some of the better looking houses are made from this.
UN are in the sleep...😂 hello from turkey 👋
Nothing new..I still see lots and I am still living in it
They also are not claiming to be the 'discoverers' of it. However these days, it seems we have forgotten the old ways and it is good they are reminding us that traditional methods are actually better
I feel one thing after watching this video you guys are doing amazing 😍😍😍 ticking all the boxes which is very important for our society and environment..🙏🙏🙏
Thank you!
No one talking about the cute cute and friendly dog. Clearly it was raised in a loving and nurturing environment by how it treated its owners acquantances.
Truly happy to have come across this UA-cam post. Best of luck to the entire team.
the lady in yellow t-shirt did not even shed a tear but made me cry ,idk why but i felt something and the energy the positive energy you women's sparkling is different, now a days ppl only just talking about environment sustainability but not actually working on it but this is something very different.
Extraordinary work done by these women. Great job.! I would like to build such a house in a 1200 sq feet plot I own in my native place in Kanyakumari district, Tamilnadu and live my retirement life there. I want it to happen in the next 5 years. Hope someone like these folks are there at that time to help me construct such a house there.
I have lived my whole childhood in a village style mud house and i can surely say that in summers our house used to be cooler than our other neighbours . The only con was during rainy season our house used to get really wet and attracted lot of insects ...but more or less those are some good old memories having special place in my heart
It's my dream to stay in mud house.Unfortunately I don't have land.....I searched a lot but....congratulations to the home owner...
It's such an inspiring and beautiful video. It gives hope about the ecologic construction, and especially when we see the most important, the human part, with people are sharing and building together. And women can do all and you show it perfectly. Congrats for your work and project, and thanks for that.
Thank you!
Where can someone get the Brick Press used at the beginning? Is it possible to get the plans to build it oneself? Thank you.
Smart ladies really good to see you doing this most required contribution to save our mother earth.
Keep shining…
Very very inspiring. Watching from Canada
congratulations to those architect ladies , Iam very proud of you all, lots of love and peace from me in Lundu Sarawak
Smart women. Young Indias are tired of seeing people without the basics
don't generalise Indians
The magic of mud makes you fall in love with the philosophy of these women. Brava!
Thank you for sharing this beautiful and inspiring message of hope and empowerment.
I have always felt that traditional methods and materials were better for the environment. I would love to have a home constructed with materials that would not damage the beautiful earth. I admire these women for what they are doing.
EMPOWERING WOMEN
KEEP FIGHTING TO MAKE INDIA GREATER THANKS TO YOU OM SHAKTI
This is the new version of India and i am 100% sure that our future is safe. Slowly we will beat all odds & will be back to nature way of living. Masons Ink's name will be written with golden mud in the history. Kudos to the rockstar team!
Great work girls. I admire your enthusiasm & belief in your art. Its wonderful you are getting the local community especially the women to participate in the work. All the best👍👏👏
Thank you very much !
This is not new to India ,but this is new to English and more than that it is new to Architects . In vilage to build a house there are set people who work professionally . But there is no engineer no architect no English , just heard work, great emotions and feelings, respect, and value for money, retrievals life and life building.
Old Technics are good and sustainable environment friendly...
Excellent. Very happy to see the house of nature. We have an ancestral house built in mud built 100+ years old. Little renovation done, very nice to live in that house.
Mud house is cost effective,cosy, cold in summer,hot in cold.we have two storied mud house 100y old with straw roof which is easily repaired at low cost.cow houses are always a mud house.
loved the way ma'am are working. Example of women empowerment! 🌟
This is why we need more women in every field. Their bodies and minds are tuned to nature - so they instinctively orient their profession toward nature's rhythm and essence.
i used to think so too. that majority of them is better than majority of males in their orentation. but i think the greed, jealousy, capitalism and bad influence of males has been growing a LOT on them lately.
i have ssen at my institute, in family, family or relatives, neighbourhood, in movie cultures etc etc.
and i came to same conclusion again, its okay to have presumptions, but never follow the presumptions. start afresh with each case with balanced caution & hope.
> _"Women's bodies and minds are tuned to nature - so they instinctively orient their profession toward nature's rhythm and essence."_
@@yash1152 Greed, jealousy, capitalism - these are not distributed according to gender - all have it. Men don't have it more or less - it has more to do with upbringing, experiences and learnings. I am only saying that women are naturally tuned to be in rhythm with nature. Their hormones and cycles that are in tune with nature, seasons and time and their natural tendency to nurture and take untold pain for that - all of these are assets of a woman's personality. How much each woman actually makes it shine may vary, but all have it. A woman who has evolved well into her true feminine self brings that aspect into her profession as well. And that does not mean that she will not experience greed, jealousy, etc. But something has to be said about how much women are judged more for having it and men aren't. As women enter the free and competitive world, these aspects become more glaring to observers and some are shocked like you.
WOW ! WOW ! and WOW ! A Big Thanks to these women for thinking outside of the "box" . . . I see these innovations solving and filling a big void !
Very interesting to learn that the small initiatives are gaining momentum. Looking forward to a brave new beautiful world
The big ancestral houses, churches and seminaries were built with lime and mud in Goa. Cool
Thank You and best of luck.....Have been researching sustainable ways forever thanks again and Namaste
I can imagine how a mud house can be cool in the summer. Nice!
Excellent video, giving real insight into this women-led project - moving stories, a lot of humour -and a great subject.
Just impressed that in India women's achievement is highly recognized
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Fun fact - I live in a mud house since 2001 hahaha... Love from Assam 🎉
My dream you’ll have full filled hats off to our younger generation keep going teach others,proud of you’ll & your parents & teachers Mashaallah Allhamdullilah
Kudos Thanks for sharing God bless All
this screams women power and mother nature collaboration! Wow !❤🔥👏
I saw a video of a guy who built his house from straw blocks with wooden scaffolding and covered the walls with a layer of clay. What's weird is that the house looked normal, but I'm not sure what's the durability of such construction. Anyway I suspect there would be people happy to live in such homes in many countries in the world, because it costs almost nothing (depending on what's used to cover the roof).
15:53 That is the issue man. Wood do originated from trees. Wood is not a tree-free product. Why not bamboo?
Gr8 achievement. Girls..keep going to save d environment which is badly needed. D coolness inside these houses in summer n d heat in winter, real bliss. Going back in time...❤❤❤
In Hinduism we do not treat a person or anything is born with sin. That’s the Christianity concept! The bhumi puja is done to say sorry to nature and the living things that had the soil as home, and asking the bhumi (land) to forgive for occupying it! And for equipment we pray to say we be successful and prosper using it and no untoward incidents happen with the equipment!
It's good to see young architect employing traditional way of building structure using indigenous material available on the site where it is to be built.
Wow, that's very inspirational! Following with love ❤️ from the UK 🇬🇧... Wishing you all the best!
9:15 What? The process of making lime itself is done by releasing naturally sequestered CO2 seashells into atmosphere. Lime itself is a subtance that cause a lot more emission than it can in a building, only the miniscule part that's in contact with atmosphere will absoarb CO2. It is very disingenuous to posture and greenwash lime as a net carbon absorber...Its not. Its like forgetting the resource intensivity of making brass and then posing the tarnish in its surface as a miracle solution for the resource it exhausted
Your argument is disingenuous and solely made to gratify your captiousness. There are worse materials used then lime. By curtailing them you automatically improve environmental concerns. Eg. lime made from from Oyster shells, a waste product of the food, heated by biomethane, also a waste product of the food industry is a better alternative than lime from mined rocks and heated with fossils fuel.
@@estebancorral5151 Sorry. But I'm someone working with carbon capturing, especially in romance weathering which replaces liming soil because the process emits Carbon dioxide and also has a background in Geology.
I would like you to remember that my point of contention was presenting lime as a carbon capture material, which is just plain wrong. Both limestone in cement and lime making from shells go the same step to expell the carbon dioxide. I never contested the fact that using lime removes the process of mining. But that it's what she said and neither is it the point I timestamped.
So please do not misrepresent my words and neither should you justify the misrepresentation of lime as a carbon capture material.
Inserting some half truth statements here and there, in between largely accurate information- is how disinformation spreads.
While she was advertising lime as something that captures carbon dioxide, she conveniently omitted the fact that it is not a net carbon sink, but instead lime is a net carbon emitter. Not being forthright about that, especially in such a video, is very disingenuous.
Btw, CaO made from calcination of both mined limestone and shells are both called lime. So unless you make sure that the lime you are using is from shells, you could still be using the same mined product cement industry use.
P.S You mentioned mining. Comparing the effect of net emissions and physical effect of mining is worthwhile here, since you seem to suggest that we should rather focus on that.
What mining does is cause surface geomorophological changes. It has always happened in nature, its part of Earth's geological system called weathering and erosion, which happens by many mechanical and chemical action and biogenic activity, animal activity like burrowing and boring is also a weathering agent. And human activity is just a subtext of that, which is just anthropogenic activity.
Mining by itself does not interfere, change or destabilize or disrupt any geochemical cycles or larger systems; unlike green house gas emissions. All it does, is make a very localized change in topography.
So, when you choose a material, your priority should be what its net emission including considering which one actuallyhave industry methods to capture and sequester the emissions, rather that whether it cause a morphological change in a location. And small scale industries where lime making from shells are done don't have much of any CCS systems in place to sequster the emissions
Love this!!! Great project and also gives me the new point of looking for the subject of building a home: woman can also do it! That is super, gives us more posibilites.
Team your work are inspiring, and definitely your efforts on climate change, sustainable construction definitely reach all and help in well being of future generation.
🙏🙏🙏
Hey gals! You are doing a good job. You are an exemplary team. Fellow woman from East Africa.
In Uttarakhand Rural area we used to build homes with mud, stone and wood. Full on Environment friendly but now People using cement, iron,bricks and forget that it is bad for environment and for people.
You are mistaken. They never forgot it. It is much worse. They never contemplated it in the first place.
@@estebancorral5151 agreed.
I think it's whole Ind after 21st century mud houses are reducing@@HomestayOnHills
The concept is amazing and I don't know why but the animation explaining the mud wall was very comforting for me.....Have seen it like 10-15 times....
Beautiful video! Such an inspiring story...
This is what I call "use what's available in the environment" then make something beautiful. Good job. Dnt mind your age, just focus a head.
These are materials humanity built with wherever we are found. Before greed came. Well done, ladies. Women do it better - as this so-called 'man' can confirm. Feeling, preservation and sustainability, with a smile. No guns anywhere close. Please spread your message to our bungling world. Best of luck.
This is the confidence all girls should have
Great work keep going 👏👏👏
Building using mud bricks is very common in Nyanza and Western Kenya. Thanks for sharing this variation of adding lime, dung etc.
Very inspiring! Great houses! 🎉
Small correction, in Hinduism we are not born with sin…. We are born pure…. We acquire habits (vasanas)
Removing negative energy part is correct… we remove negative energy and spread positive energy by doing pooja….
Apart from that, awesome work! Keep it up!
Dung from local cow breeds is far less stinky than that of imported breeds. Also it is having better consistency and is a treasure trove
of beneficial bacteria. That is why it has been used as bio fertilizer in India for thousands of years.
Appreciate sincere efforts of these Architects in spreading across Mud building technology
Pls.give contact DETAILS to buy these bricks
So heartwarming and restoring one's faith in humanity, in a dystopian world ❤
How to contact the architects, please provide some leads to reach them, iam more keen to construct sustainable home. Please provide me the leads
villagers
Thank you for sharing and truly amazing display of hope and opportunity for a sustainable living for the future generation
,congratulations🤝
Hands give joy. Totally relatable 🫣😁
i wanted to build my house like mr. thomas. but i couldn't. there is limited access to sufficient resources including the know-how about the bricks and the equipment then i have to involve myself in teaching them to make the brick, and i have to simultaneously fight with my family and relatives to teach them that this IS a real thing and that it can easily outlast my requirements. but i couldn't. building a home is in itself a huge task and pressure for an average man. almost nobody is going to go to extra lengths to find the know-how and take a risk of building something out of mud. its still perceived as high risk since his neighbours didnt build it that way. most people struggle to build a single house in their lifetime and they are not willing to take that risk. if you want to take it to the vast majority, then build something on a really large scale lets say a housing district of 20 buildings of 20 floors each. let someone like Narendra Modi inaugurate it. even people who dont give a damn about the environment should be able to give it a go. like the electric cars. people buy them now because they are cheaper to run in the long term. not because they are environmentally friendly or anything. only then people all over the world will take notice. There is no point in building a 1000sq ft home in a rural village for a person who is retired and has the time to do all the research about the mud bricks and be involved in each aspect of the building. no. if an average Indian has to build it then he should be able to select it off the shelf. i want you to succeed with this and quick. but the projects are too tiny now. go big. go big. go big. that should be your only mantra. scale it great heights. mud blocks are exactly where they started some 100 years ago. at this pace, it'll remain there for the next 100 if its not adapted in the cities.
Mr. Thomas did not build the house. He delegated that to Masons Inc. You lack focus and don’t prioritize well. Your inner turmoil is apparent.
@@estebancorral5151 ofcourse the Pharaohs didn't build the pyramids, they delegated it to someone. We'll have that irrelevant debate some other day. What I tried to imply or point out is that the know how is not commonplace enough for common people to consider it as an option. As you rightly pointed out it has to become a priority to build a house that way. I am not trying to belittle their effort, I respect their intentions. But I just felt that they have to slightly shift and refocus their attention to have the maximum impact in our society. Societal upliftment is more important than my "inner turmoil".
@@menons1989 you are victim of this very same thing. Since you are inspired by Pharoahnic Egypt. I would share some light upon you. Back in the 70’s, a Cairene said exactly what you said. His name was Hassan Fathy. He wrote the book, “Architecture for the Poor.” He left the relative ease found in Cairo to help people in the poorest part of Egypt…Nubia. These people were so ignorant that they had a hard time believing him that the spreading of disease was caused be germs. He revitalized the ancient, Egyptian
Construction techniques using mud bricks. Though simple, they were liveable and beautiful. The book won International awards. Find this book and read it.
Your idea reflects that why as human what role I need to play to save this universe, provide rural employment and save the traditional skills and techniques. Is there a similar house build where one can experience living naturally?
I need low cost materials for my own house.... I can't afford to build a pucca house ....
❤❤❤❤ Want to be partnered with you....
My mud house 🏠 was older than 150 years. It was destroyed at end for making corporate building. I couldn't express my feelings to Father but I never wanted that because I was born in that home 😢