Human Ecology and Architecture

Faculty: Malak Singh Gill

COURSE BRIEF

This course was intended to help us understand and connect with the environment and ecology of the buildings and its materials. It has a cultural impact on the life of people. So we started with the understanding of ecology and technology with the case studies and how the materiality is what holds the design and the environment together. These case studies of different environment friendly architects helped analysing these dependencies in a better way. The later part of the module focused on the hands on experience. The idea was to make a 1:1 arch and understand these studies in a practical way.

CASE STUDY 1

TATHAASTU

Residence of Rahul Gupta

The 2- BHK house with a hobby room at G+1 floor ,

overlooks into the double-height living hall area.

The front and back side verandas create a

beautiful relation between spaces flowing inside and out.

Architect : Malak Singh Gill

Source: http://www.architectmalaksingh.in/residence-karjat

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CASE STUDY 1

A NATIVE SEEDBANK

Vellayampatti, Karur, Tamil Nadu

Biju Bhaskar is the founder of Thannal Natural Homes, a Natural building awareness group, which thrives to use and thereby create awareness about local building masonary. This seed bank is built entirely using natural materials like bricks, surkhi, lime with bamboo reinforcement, cob walls and palm tree beams.

Architect : Biju Bhaskar

Source: https://thannal.com/upcoming-natural-building-works/

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