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Natural Building Books Part-2
This directory of books on Natural building provides insight into the oldest techniques like Adobe to the latest natural building technology like Super adobe (Earthbag) ...
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Earthen Wall Systems
The ranges of different natural building techniques out there are many and all of them are appealing. These wall systems use locally available renewable materials ...
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Natural Building Books Part-1
This is a directory of Natural building books on wall systems like Cob, wattle and Daub and rammed earth by proficient Natural builders from around ...
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Interview: Thappi, a Marvel tool of Lime
Master Mason Abdul Razak ji talks about Thappi Plaster and the peculiarities of the plaster. Read about how Thappi Plaster with admixtures is applied on ...
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Interview: Traditional Natural colourist Yusuf Painter
In his journey of explorations in Traditional Indian Lime Plasters, Biju Bhaskar meets Yusuf ji, a traditional natural colourist, who worked mainly on paintings and ...
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Journey of Thannal
As part of Laurie Baker’s Birth Centenary Exhibition, Thannal have attempted to reach common man through portraying different dimensions in which we try to spread ...
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Types of Indian Plaster part 1
The beauty of Indian plasters is that it utilises different natural derivatives from trees and herbs to increase the molecular strength, termite resistance and water ...
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Bagra flat lime roofs
In a village called Tehla near Jaipur, crushed lime waste ‘Bagra’ is extensively used for mortars, plasters as well as for making flat lime roofs. ...
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inGREED with cement
Cement is hailed as the ultra-modern building material, coming together with steel to reach new heights that mankind has never dared to reach before. In ...
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