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Monday 30 April 2012

Residence - Biome


Sunny's cob house








Sunny's house was designed by Sheel. Sunny is an organic farmer who will be growing his own food on the rest of the plot using harvested water from an excavated pond. The earth from this excavation is used to build the walls of this house. The walls are 18 inches thick. It was mostly built using local labor with some contribution from volunteers over the weekends. The volunteers were students and young architects, who learnt the art of cob building in the process.

The intermediate floor for this house is of precast panels and the final roof is of reinforced concrete.
The house harvests water for drinking and cooking needs and also has a composting toilet.

The construction of this house saw a few hilarious incidents in form of comments from lot of curious neighbours who thought of it to be a brick klin and sometimes to be a temple.

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