This house in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra was built on a budget, 1,100 square feet, using laterite stone quarried within 10 kilometres of the site, Mangalore clay roof tiles, teak wood joinery and clearstory windows along the eastern wall that pull morning light through the entire living area. Cross ventilation through high ceilings and large openings means no mechanical cooling. Not a single tree on the site was cut during construction.
This is not an expensive house. It is a disciplined one.
The crude indigenous designs we have in our communities do not need to be abandoned. They need effort. When slight effort is put into laterite, into fired brick, into rammed earth, when someone takes the time to lay it properly, orient the building correctly, and open it to the right wind, the result stops looking crude and starts looking like this. The people around us cannot see how good our materials are because we have never shown them what those materials look like when they are taken seriously.
Building kilns is not a fantasy. We have the clay. We have the land. We just have not decided it matters enough yet.
There is no pride in crudeness and there is no excuse for mediocrity when the solution is already in the ground.
Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, India | Articulated Design Initiative | Photography: Vaibhav Kapadi
गावी आलोय. आईकडे बघतोय. वय वाढतंय, थकवा वाढतोय, पण तिची कामं मात्र कमी होत नाहीत. सकाळपासून रात्रीपर्यंत ती काही ना काही करत असते. कधी कधी वाटतं, या बायकांना खराखुरा आराम नेमका कधी मिळत असेल? की त्यांचा आराम फक्त सरणावरच लिहिला असतो...!
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पापा और मम्मी दोनों जीवित नहीं है, दादा जी का पेंशन का पैसा आएगा तब नया स्कूल ड्रेस आएगा। फिर गुरुजी ने एक शर्ट पैंट दिया।
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