Gowri and Harish's house. A Mud house next to a multi story apartment.
With the plot located right behind a huge apartment complex near outer ring road, we were approached to design for them an ecologically sensitive house. The couple, Mr.Harish Iyer who works for a Bio-technology firm and Mrs.Gowri Iyer, who is involved in Education Research decided to build and live in a home that reflected their beliefs.
The walls of the House are built with the mud by stabilizing its with 7% of cement, compressing it, sun-drying and curing it. Thus the whole wall system completely removed the need to burn anything for its production.
The curved roof of Jack Arches has kept the steel and concrete consumption much lower than a conventional RCC roof.The ribbed hollow clay block roofing keeps the room cooler on a hot day due to its thickness and air-gap.
Cooler evening wind drifts the hot air inside creating a pleasant space inside throughout the year.
The Kota and Jaisalmer stone flooring in the Living and Lounge spaces add to the presence of the stone pillars inside.
Clay tile flooring in the bedrooms maintain almost a constant temperature throughout the year and more importantly keep the users healthy.
The natural light flows in through skylights and windows avoiding use of artificial lighting till the dusk.
The wind crosses through the house and lets it cool without the need for a AC even on a hottest day.
The House harvests all of its rainwater and also treats its washing machine grey water to flush the toilet in lower floors.
The house has been designed by Monalika Nanda and built by Mr. M.C.Narayan
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