We are a practice of our people. We come together with the common passion to make and create. We believe in forging lasting relationships within our ecosystem. Our community of artisans, architects, engineers, artists, and makers constantly grows.

We are a practice of materials. We love making with clay, and the earth around us. We engage with lime, from kilns both indigenous and technological. We bring in rice husk, straw and conversations from around our geographical belt.
We think of our work as circular and inclusive. Our passion lies in crafting with natural materials, weaving ecology and the community of a region.

We like to dwell deep into our crafts and practices. Research is essential. Both material and cultural. We engage in conversation with, and find inspiration in traditional knowledge banks; while working together with them to reinterpret and reinvent their expressions.

We are a community of makers, not shy to move between the drawing board and the earth pit. Not hesitant to span brick vaults, to make earth floors or build bamboo walls.
We pick projects with care, mindful of our need to learn, explore and deepen our ties with the ecosystem around us.
Of wanting to be around and work with people sensitive to ideas of sustainability, ecology and art.

For the last, and rather delicate part 
of finishing a clay wall, gather all your tools and set up a nice work space. Any fine clay will do. (take a walk with a sieve). Use the clay to form a slurry, and apply the thinnest coat possible and allow for it to dry.  Using the finest of sprays, mist the clay surface. Gauging the amount of water needed comes with practice, It takes a few tries to get the perfect wetness to float the wall.

When the surface feels right, pick up your favorite float. There is no perfect shape, or length of tool. It comes down to you and the clay. If all has gone well, and you’ve taken a deep breath, press gently and move across the surface, The fine clay, now burnished, should stand beaming, reflecting you in all its glory.

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Shruthi Ramakrishna
Architect
Jeremie Gaudin
Engineer
Agnimitra P Bachi
Architect
Muthu Nayak
Engineer
Kune Yatheesh
Architect
Prathap T
Engineer
Hemanth Gowda
Production Manager
Durgamma
Artisan
Sangeetha
Accounts
Tirupathi
Artisan

Team Made IN EARTH Collective

 

Collaborators and Supporters

Auroville Earth Institute
Auroville, Tamil Nadu, India

Clay Station
Bangalore, India

Solarify
Bangalore, India

Dr. H B Nagaraj
Department of Civil Engineering, B. M. S. COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
Bangalore, India

Chênelet Construction
France

Coopérative Baraka
Roubaix, France

Inventerre
Toulouse, France

Samvada Baduku
Bangalore, India

 

 

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