Architecture

In the sweltering summer of Gujarat, ‘Cool House’, a sustainable home designed by Samira Rathod, uses no ACs and coolers to remain naturally cool.

Looking for inspiration to build your eco-friendly home? These 10 architectural ideas combine innovation with traditional means of construction to design homes on the base of sustainability.

Looking for ideas to build a modern nalukettu mud house? Karai weekend home near Chennai uses mud and reclaimed wood to fuse modernity with Tamil Nadu's traditional architecture.

Dhruvang Hingmire and Priyanka Gunjikar, architects of 'Building in Mud', create cement-free, eco-friendly homes that stay cool, using natural materials and lime plaster.

Collaborating with award-winning artist Lakhichand Jain and Geeli Mitti, Kiran Amati built a unique sustainable home near Mumbai using natural materials like wood, mud, cow dung, and straw.

The Mudhouse, a family-run homestay in Kerala is a sustainable sanctuary surrounded by sandalwood forests, boasting of mud cottages and a treehouse. Here's what goes behind running it.

Did you know Jaipur was India's first planned city in 1727, as per UNESCO? The brain behind it was the Rajput 'astronomer prince', Sawai Jai Singh II.

Located in Hyderabad, father-son duo M V Ramachandrudu and Bharani have built a solar-powered sustainable home out of shipping containers.

Made for Dr Jayakumar and his family as a weekend getaway home, this unique house in Kozhikode is made using an ecofriendly technology called LGSF.

Built by three friends with a dream of living in sustainable homes, this mud row house project in Bengaluru has rainwater harvesting, a flourishing fruit orchard and eco-friendly ethnic architecture.