Architecture

Balkrishna Vithaldas Doshi—the first Indian to win the Pritzker Prize—talks about how to find symphony and sustainability in architecture.

Sunyata Hotel, located in Chikmagalur, Karnataka, is a sustainable structure made of bricks, coconut shells, and pot fillers. Watch how it was built.

Popular Malayalam writer Echmukutty and her architect husband Padmakumar built an eco-friendly home in Kerala. Made of recycled bricks, stones, mud, recycled frames and glass, the house has a slice of nature in every corner.

Watch this video to see how Mahesh Krishnan, a resident of Bengaluru, quit his hospitality job to lead a sustainable life and build an eco-friendly mud house with dung, stones, husk, palm leaves, and more.

In the middle of Ahmedabad is Kalrav Farmhouse by Vipul Patel Architects which has solar panels, a greywater recycler and other sustainable setups.

Sustainable architecture company Compartments S4, launched by eight friends from CEPT, Ahmedabad, has led several projects to promote community development and eco-friendly architecture across rural and urban India. Here’s a look at some key projects.

Purushan Eloor from Kerala built a flood-resistant sustainable house in Eloor near Kochi. He recycled his 25-year-old concrete house which was heavily damaged during the 2018 Kerala floods.

Knowledge-centric solutions hub, cBalance curated the ‘Informal Housing Thermal Comfort’ project. It encourages participatory action from poor households to build thermally comfortable humane structures for them to live.

Looking for ways to cut down electricity and water bills? Here is a list of houses across the country that use innovative methods to be energy-efficient and reduce wastage.

Entrepreneurs Harshit and Parikshit from Hyderabad run Okno Modhomes, a venture that helps their clients assemble sustainable homes on their own, without the use of concrete or cement