Preserving India's heritage of mud architecture. Biju Bhaskar of Thannal.
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- Опубліковано 30 тра 2024
- Chapters:
00:00 - The rise and fall of mud architecture.
00:55 - Introduction to Thannal
01:22 - Philosophy of Thannal
01:55 - Story of Biju Bhaskar (Founder of Thannal)
03:11 - Thannal and travel
04:25 - Thannal workshops
05:46 - Use of natural materials and plant derivatives
07:02 - Documentation in Thannal
India has a rich tradition of mud architecture. Even today more than 65 million of about 118 million houses in the country are made of mud. 2 seconds… But as the country progresses, mud architecture is slowly being supplanted by concrete. Even in rural areas where the mud was once the go-to material is turning towards concrete.
Mud houses are often associated with decadence and poverty, while concrete is a symbol of upward mobility and modernity.
This notion is being challenged by a 47-year-old architect, living on the foothills of Tiruvannamalai in Tamil Nadu. His love for India’s vernacular architecture had taken him on a journey across the country, experiencing and documenting different materials, styles and skills that made these dwelling spaces unique. His organisation named “Thannal” has now become a sanctuary for preserving these mud techniques and a seminary for architects to come and learn this art. Biju Bhaskar is an architect by training. His first 10 years after his architecture degree saw him handling commercial projects. But that was not his calling. In 2011, Biju founded ‘Thannal’, a natural building awareness group along with his wife, Sindhu Bhaskar. he then travelled extensively to the most rural parts of India, with his family, to find, learn and document these ancient architectural techniques. Biju through Thannal did not want to design-build more natural homes like most architects would do. He instead sought to create more people who would build and design natural buildings. He also wanted to educate people on the significance of mud as a sustainable building material and ensured all material containing such knowledge was available. Thus he built a 550 sq ft Earthbag home and an artisans studio in Thiruvannamalai along with his wife and children and started to conduct workshops. Today, we are starting to see a large population of Indian youth migrating back to the villages. This population is also keen on making a dramatic shift in their lifestyle by growing their own food and building houses using locally sourced materials. Biju believes that over time groups like Thannal will become a catalyst in helping these people transition easier. - Наука та технологія
In Odisha, the mud houses they've built are so strong, the g+1 houses are still standing since over 100 years
Would you please give me the name of the location, so I can reach to the location
@@parthasarathigoswami2020 you can find those houses in most rural parts. Very abundant in western Odisha. The ceiling of the ground floors are made with tree trunks and lumber, in some cases as I've seen with bricks too but idk which one is stronger. On top of that again comes the mud which also makes the floor of the upper floor. Then the first floor is generally with a low ceiling height which has the roof of the house made with khapar or the mud tiles and bamboo along with other wooden structure used to support it. Those kind of houses were built way back in time and not everyone could build them in the British period. I only have the knowledge of what's in my area though.
@@parthasarathigoswami2020come to mayurbhanj santal village
I am sure, i will build my own house with mud.
I am saving all these videos for my reference.
Thank you DTE.
I'm opting for rammed earth house.
God willing, I will succeed. 🙏
Same here 😊
Love seeing this! I am doing the same here in Panama, building the first natural building school. Here, they are tearing down the few mud homes that are still standing because they are "old" and "outdated", but you can build beautiful, modern homes with natural materials as well. I am an engineer by training so I also made the switch to natural after a "tech" background and love seeing everything that natural materials can do!
Requested to visit Ladakh,there are many no of houses built from mud , not only ground floor ,3 to 4th floor with the help of mud.
Good to see the old skills of house building being kept alive ❤❤❤
Bhaskarji,It feels so proud and happy to see people like you who are working for preserving and spreading our old technique and knowledge ..👍
भारतीय वैभव निसर्ग को साथ लेकर विकसित हुआ, निर्माण हुआ था, अतः यह शाश्वत सत्य भी हे, निसर्ग से ही जीवन सुरक्षित तथा आनंद से भरा होता है ।।।
By doing this we can save our environment.
I love my old mud house, it gives me unexplainable happiness there, it connects me to nature, it is temparature proof, good for immunity, although need more maintainance than pukka house.
I'm feeling so good after watching this video, more people should know that Mud houses are still a thing and we can still build houses with mud using modern techniques.
When I grow old, I would love to build my own mud home. Thanks Mr. Biju and Down To Earth!
Why wait to grow old and loose your golden time to enjoy life?
Yes, documentation is very important
Bijuchettaaa ghambheeram 👍🏻
I am so grateful I came across your video. I am planning on building a rammed earth home in Ghana and I am curious to know more about the inclusion of herbs in the walls. I was impressed to hear that Indian youths are returning to rural areas. Thank you
Glad it was helpful!
as you are from Ghana, there is an ancient African plastering water proof method called Tadelakt. It's from Morocco ua-cam.com/video/J-T7JhL2vzs/v-deo.html you can also get an idea on how a Moroccan mud house looks like ua-cam.com/video/JnXqmxskTxk/v-deo.html
I also wish to have a mud house in future . It will smell like heaven when it rains.😆😄
I have been following Thannal since many years now.... they are doing awesome work... preserving our ancient knowledge and providing it to the current generation.
Sub-Sahara Africa like Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Mali, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso all these people used mud to build building, Akan architecture, Benin architecture, Yoruba architecture, Dahomey architecture and Sudano-Sahelian/Mali and Hausa architecture all used mud. most of Bantu and Nilotic used mud to build cone hut, the King, Noble hut are bigger and commoner are small just like we see in the video or media. Dahomey Palace complex and Benin palace complex are example of mud architecture, mixed with wood and stone.
i observed that the carving on mud house walls in tamilnadu are very similar to mud carvings in uttar pradesh.
that shows that once we lived with in shared culture
Fascinating project, I would recommend them to also look at tribal architecture from Jharkhand and bengal.. they have been also building mud homes.
If I am correct, you are talking about Bankura, Medinipur. If I am wrong then please give me the name of location
Any place in West Bengal , Odisha , jharkhanda , Bihar , it’s always beautiful
Can you point out which tribes are you referring to? Thanks,
@@cinemarevisit7916 I think Santhal Tribes.
I live in a house 100 years old built by mud with surky. I love my home.. even though for onlookers it is a very old home that need to replaced by a concrete building.
Shibam city in Yemen is world heritage site,
It has mud build skyscrapers.
This is called Sensible Filming. Thanks for this video.
I’m so so grateful this video came into my life. Thank you! Not only for this video but for your passion and dedication to documenting these techniques and sharing it with everyone so they can have this knowledge and freedom to create their own homes and in turn life. Thank you deeply.
Respected both sir and madam. I am krishnapriya living in madurai. I have seen your passion towards our ancient people art of building house with nature. It's only livelihood. And documentation of all types of our heritage house around India. I am immersed in pleasure. I am saluting to all your works. And i am wishing you to attian all pleasure. From my childhood i was interested in architecture with nature friendly.
But now i am as special educator.
We are going built mud house.
Incredible. Love and blessings! These people will be surviving the coming crises.
Kudos to thannal for reviveing our lost artform 🙂 👏
Breathable home...nice concept.. all the best.
Great job Down to earth & thannal Team 🙏😄
Thank you so much.
Mud houses were considered primitive and as poor men’s house . Today we are slowly learning to shift our thoughts processes and appreciate ancient knowledges and their wisdom! As for me , I believe that there more accumulated knowledges of
of science and wisdom among the many trible elders that would serve the humanity more sustainable way than in most of the acclaimed modern “ temple of education “, where no thoughts are given of side effects and longlasting damage that scientifical achievements can cause( Atombombe, bio weapons , cancer and climate change causing products etc…….)
These artisans need to be roped in to create a syllabus for a certificate course to be taught in community colleges, training centers run by union and state governments. In addition, architects, civil engineers and need to come together to come up with a industrialized construction methods, once that comes into play, constructing mud houses will be much faster.
Sir hats off to you.Great work
Great marvellous task to document these beautiful architecture and building practices. 🌼💚🌍 Thanks Thannal team. I follow your UA-cam and website. Will surely come to learn these practices. 🙂💌🏅
Anything that empowers local people to do, build and live without interference from central authorities is both good for humanity and irritating to those types of petty despots who love the administrative, centralizing state. Good for Thannal!
Great job Down to earth & thannal Team . By doing this we can save our environment..
DownToEarth, a great video but how do you put decadence which means luxury and poverty in the same sentence? I think you meant "mud houses are seen as a symbol of difficulty/indigence/destitution and poverty...
And this "Modernity" have put this whole world and all species into climate change trouble! Which cannot be reversed now!!! Kudos
Beautiful and preserving ..
Great job down-to-earth and thannal
Earth quakes .. unexpected floods, rains so and so forth... we evolved from these which was our previous generations life style again going back ... Its like a CYCLE go back and then evolve with technology then get back away from chaos .. its never ending cyclic form
Thank u so much sir ... Great initiative, I'll definitely visit...👏👏☮️
Appreciate what you do DTE org 👍
I think it's a very great initiative because it's a eco-friendly and all the raw materials can be found without doing any destruction to the nature...
Moreover mud houses are remains cool in hotter days and much more reliable than cement, which is mostly responsible for dust and air pollution
I love it. Share more on their initiative
thank you so much for preserving this so important way of building and also by doing this, ensuring people do not loose this wisdom that is fastly being lost. Same thing here in brazil. And to preserve this is also to honor the identity and culture and sustainability of different peoples.
Amazing work Biju.
love it , so sad for me to find my own culture in this way but still feeling good about it
Sir, I am jnterested in building a mud house in the village, but I find it difficult to find the workers to carry out the task
I think Thannal should start taking contracts to build mud houses if not doing so already.
Love from Rajasthan 🚩 ❤️
Hey guys sorry to point out, but at 0.46 the word to use isn't decadence, definitely got the wrong word there.
this is great ! love from sri lanka
Have you documented limestone based construction as well? That was very popular in last 500 years. You see all forts in Rajasthan were created using it and they are still standing after 500 years. You will come across havelis in Shekhawati region of Rajasthan, all created using it.
Everybody stopped using it 30 years ago when cement came. It’s very very stable material.
Truly real talent
There's an issue with Mud Houses. The (rich and fertile) topsoil gets used up, making the land barren. This hits our agriculture. I have personal experience of this - the land on which we built our house was completely barren because the top soil had been cleaned off. Not even weeds grew for over 5 years. It took us time to revive that land by burying our kitchen waste all over the land and importing/spreading topsoil + manure from elsewhere.
I think the clay composition and natural soil health was poor to begin with. Because you don't have to clean an entire field full of top soil. A small section of the land where you are planning for a water pond or something similar should also work, assuming healthy soil composition is available
we don't need top soil.. in fact top soil makes the house weaker as it has organic matter which is prone to decaying
@@MsMjmj77 You didn't get it. I agree we don't need top soil when constructing a house on the plot. But we definitely need top soil for the garden/surrounding area to grow any kind of vegetation.
My point was - the ENTIRE top soil was cleared out making the land completely barren. We couldn't grow anything on it for years. This didn't affect the house construction.
Not necessarily, if those communities are composting to help replace the soil being used to build homes and augmenting the soil with renewable vegetation additives (i.e. straw).
@@RinkaSingh The top soil removed should be preserved and can be used for landscaping.
This is so amazing!!
Mud houses are more cooler than concrete houses.
In these times of global warming and increasing heat, mud houses is a good option.
Great work sir ji 🙏
Brilliant!
thanks a lot 😍😍😍😍
This was very hygenic houses in ancient now also available in some villages
Great work 😍😍😍😍.
Awesome 👌
Great work👌🏻👌🏻... Another company is Geeli Mitti which is working in making mud and sustainable houses.
I was wondering whether we can build multi storey building using mud. There seemed to be one building at the end which was built with mud. I think they need to stress on that as well.
awesome
thanks
This is the future
Hi, Sir the soil I have at site is having approximately 70% clay and 3% silt, no gravel and sand in it. What should I mix in it like stabilizers? Thanks
my grand fathers home used mud only, walls are so thick and even floor is made up of mud , roof with hand made mud tiles and palm wood for the frame to put tiles, you need to visit the konaseema in andhrapradesh, old manduva logili homes there are very good, they are cool,
Very interesting work,
Is it possible to publish the link about the documentation you described in the video time stamp @9:35
mud homes are present all over in cholisthan region , which extends upto kutch region in gujarat.
Lovely, is this expensive?
Do you take up small projects in Bangalore?
Appreciate the work
How are you able to build without building permits and adhering to a building code? Do you have to submit a site plan to the city? Can you please help me with this question
Great work
How can prevent White ant damage to the wooden part of the house?
Great
So nice
Mud house, no cars, is the solution, for enhancing the quality of life at earth.
Earth will be fine, there will be no environmental problems then.
Sir, me and my wife build mud house , every thing is fine, but iam facing termites problem, is there any natural solution, please suggest
Hi sir I'm coming to meet you I'm devendra from Hyderabad.
Awesome❤
Green building should also be practical, safe and private, otherwise a family cannot survive for long.
One question Sir - how to protect mud house from termites?
Nice video ❤
Very nice
We have a traditional house made of mud in kerala which is 80 years old we are trying to save this house, is there any video u guys suggest me, please
From where to start
We have mud home in villae which is almost broken
Now I am delhi..
I hope to rebuild again soon.
Very nice 👌
I am from maharashtra. How can I build mud house. We dont have red clay nearby.
How can I learn mud house
And the name is thannal 🔥
What's the use of it..if you can't help me building a mud house in my Village in Uttarakhand....😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 please help some to build this kind of house for me
❤❤❤❤ whats is the chepeast mud house budget for 500sq ft.. Very tight budget suggest, any simple model is ok guys🎉🎉🎉🎉
How much cost this house make in Himilaya of Nepal?
sir ,How can I join as a volunteer in this project
id love to do a learning workshop there, its just magical.
Bravo
I have no problem in mud houses
My concern is security a thief can easily enter the mud house instead of concrete
Can u helpe and if possible to make mud house in Kerala
Mud and lime buildings are good and should be brought into mainstream buildings as cement, red clay bricks and iron are very expensive.
But to make it mainstream, you need to have end product similar to modern buildings with clean lines and corners like cement buildings.
Just look at the buildings showcased in the video itself, most of them at best look like poormain’s home or lower middle class at best and some upper middle class folks who join this movement are dis gruntled of the modernism.
I know old buildings of mud and lime are still standing in india and Pakistan after thousand years and they are very simple and stylish.
We need to come out of ‘hippy culture’ for this to become acceptable to masses.
Similar work is being done by Yasmeen Lari- architect and PAKSBAB society in Pakistan.
I would love to have lime rendered house which is strong and should ladt a lifetime and is contemporary.
Any examples of such work?
We need recipes of how to make mud/ lime bricks, walls and smooth plasters!
Help!
There are plenty of examples where mud architecture and modern technology have been successfully married
Modern building have sharp corners because it's easier. And the brick work needed to make stable curved walls are getting lost. The stability of Modern buildings are all on concrete beams,pillar and lindle, and the bricks are just fillers that's not stacked to enhance stability, so they can only make straight walls between the constraints of straight pillars and beams.
Straight walls and sharp corners are a handicap of modern construction not a benefit