Preserving India's heritage of mud architecture. Biju Bhaskar of Thannal.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 มิ.ย. 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. - วิทยาศาสตร์และเทคโนโลยี
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
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!
Yes, documentation is very important
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.
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.
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 ।।।
Bhaskarji,It feels so proud and happy to see people like you who are working for preserving and spreading our old technique and knowledge ..👍
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 😊
Hey man ! I would be grateful if u will share your videos collection. If u have made any playlist of that, pls make it public.
Waiting for ur reply
Bijuchettaaa ghambheeram 👍🏻
By doing this we can save our environment.
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.
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?
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.
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 th-cam.com/video/J-T7JhL2vzs/w-d-xo.html you can also get an idea on how a Moroccan mud house looks like th-cam.com/video/JnXqmxskTxk/w-d-xo.html
I also wish to have a mud house in future . It will smell like heaven when it rains.😆😄
Incredible work Thannal and team.
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
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.
Incredible. Love and blessings! These people will be surviving the coming crises.
Kudos to thannal for reviveing our lost artform 🙂 👏
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.
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.
Great marvellous task to document these beautiful architecture and building practices. 🌼💚🌍 Thanks Thannal team. I follow your TH-cam and website. Will surely come to learn these practices. 🙂💌🏅
Good to see the old skills of house building being kept alive ❤❤❤
Shibam city in Yemen is world heritage site,
It has mud build skyscrapers.
This is called Sensible Filming. Thanks for this video.
Great job Down to earth & thannal Team . By doing this we can save our environment..
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.
Sir hats off to you.Great work
Beautiful and preserving ..
I love it. Share more on their initiative
Breathable home...nice concept.. all the best.
Appreciate what you do DTE org 👍
Great job down-to-earth and thannal
Amazing work Biju.
Great job Down to earth & thannal Team 🙏😄
Thank you so much.
Brilliant!
Thank u so much sir ... Great initiative, I'll definitely visit...👏👏☮️
This is so amazing!!
love it , so sad for me to find my own culture in this way but still feeling good about it
this is great ! love from sri lanka
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.
Great work sir ji 🙏
Truly real talent
awesome
thanks
Love from Rajasthan 🚩 ❤️
Great
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
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…….)
thanks a lot 😍😍😍😍
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!
Awesome 👌
This is the future
So nice
And this "Modernity" have put this whole world and all species into climate change trouble! Which cannot be reversed now!!! Kudos
Great work 😍😍😍😍.
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
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.
This was very hygenic houses in ancient now also available in some villages
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...
Very nice
Great work
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
Very nice 👌
Appreciate the work
Awesome❤
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.
Great work👌🏻👌🏻... Another company is Geeli Mitti which is working in making mud and sustainable houses.
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.
Bravo
Nice video ❤
I think, Indians shouldn’t shy away from using Cow Dung too, as it is the one of the biggest contribution by India to the world. Cow Dung Mixture keeps home cooler than Mud. Anyway, it was nice to see that there are Hindus who are preserving their culture.
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.
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.
Lovely, is this expensive?
Do you take up small projects in Bangalore?
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.
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
And the name is thannal 🔥
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,
LOVE
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
Mud houses are more cooler than concrete houses.
In these times of global warming and increasing heat, mud houses is a good option.
Hi sir I'm coming to meet you I'm devendra from Hyderabad.
Hey guys sorry to point out, but at 0.46 the word to use isn't decadence, definitely got the wrong word there.
One question Sir - how to protect mud house from termites?
Great information, thank you। , Can I make mud house , I want to ..
We have mud home in villae which is almost broken
Now I am delhi..
I hope to rebuild again soon.
❤❤❤❤ whats is the chepeast mud house budget for 500sq ft.. Very tight budget suggest, any simple model is ok guys🎉🎉🎉🎉
How can prevent White ant damage to the wooden part of the house?
Namaskar sir
Aap bahut hi behtarin ho.
Aapse Jo jankari milati hai vahi Hindi mein hoti to samajhne mein aasan hota kripa kar ke Hindi mein video aap bnao
Green building should also be practical, safe and private, otherwise a family cannot survive for long.
🙏🏼👍🏼👍🏼
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
Sir, me and my wife build mud house , every thing is fine, but iam facing termites problem, is there any natural solution, please suggest
From where to start
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.
id love to do a learning workshop there, its just magical.
Can u helpe and if possible to make mud house in Kerala
I am from maharashtra. How can I build mud house. We dont have red clay nearby.