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THE FUTURE WILL BE SOWN | Dubai Design Week 2023 | Art Installation |
The installation is in part an invitation to reflect on the idea of ‘sowing’, as an act of thinking ahead, cultivating meaningful relationships with one’s land and people. It is, in part, an invitation to work towards a world in symbiosis with plant fibers. And in part, it is a provoking proposition for all of us: let us sow, before we build.
Materials | Loofah, Coconut wood
SAMVADA BADUKU | College Campus | Bangalore |
Founded by Samvada, the Baduku College carves out careers from social and ecological needs. The architectural intent of the campus is to reflect samvada’s values of sustainability, inclusiveness and continuous learning.
Materials | Adobes, Rammed Earth, Lime Plasters, Polished oxide flooring, Natural Clay Paints, Reclaimed Wood, Ferrocement
SUTA | Flagship store for Suta Bombay | Bangalore |
The design of the store comes together in equal measures, from fond memories of spaces and objects of everyday life that were made by hand; and of our early encounters with sarees.
Materials | Rammed Earth & Lime, Lime Plasters, Polished oxide flooring, Natural Clay Paints, Brass, Black Kadappa Stone, Yellow Sandstone, and Reclaimed Wood.
ADOBE APARTMENTS | Residence | Bangalore |
Bangalore city is thirsty for space and greenery. Can an apartment contribute to this need? We took this up as a challenge to create an apartment commune that will introduce a green environment and invite healthy living into a dense neighborhood. The design has been driven by creating spacious volumes together with compact and efficient planning, combining nature and light.
We do not dislike everything that shines, but we do prefer a pensive lustre to a shallow brilliance, a murky light that, whether in a stone or an artifact, bespeaks a sheen of antiquity…we do love things that bear the marks of grime, soot, and weather, and we love the colours and the sheen that call to mind the past that made them.
― Jun’ichirō Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows.
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BEEJA | A Raw Earth Installation | Office Interiors, Bangalore |
Space making with indigenous knowledge; together with two coracle weavers from the soliga community, we installed a seed pod, inside the lounge of an office in Bangalore. Using the wattle and daub technique, Beeja is made completely in raw earth.
Materials | Wattle and Daub, Bamboo, Rice Husk, Clay Plaster, Jaggery, Straw, Rammed earth flooring, Natural Paints, Cotton Thread
KANAJA, the story of three granaries | Space Installation for Serendipity Art Festival | Panjim, Goa |
KANAJA is a contemplative work about the spaces we inhabit. Everyday materials that are hidden in plain sight are stretched in both volume and imagination to make a theatrical piece. In a commitment to support local craftsmanship and livelihoods, these pieces are put together by everyday people from the villages around the Kaveri belt.
Materials | Recycled woodfree cotton paper, tamarind seed powder, fenugreek, cellulose glue, mulberry bark handmade paper, woven bamboo, woven cane, linseed oil, metal, woven quilt of dried sponge gourds, lantana, wood, grey clay, straw, grey clay paints.
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“there is an option, a way out, a means to imagine anew the relationship between place, nature, and the physical spaces we construct and inhabit for most of the hours of our lives. A new architecture of the heart, informed by beauty and pure design, with new materials as simple as the sun, yielding new possibilities for forms so delicate, so functional, so perfectly aligned with the axis of the spirit that they will inspire a totally new dream of the Earth”
– Lo-TEK by Julia Watson.
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PROJECT LOOFAH | a study in material and space installation. The Loofah wall of light is crafted by weaving together fibres of the sponge gourd, commonly known as the Loofah, a material hanging in plain sight in our farms. Write to us if you would like to know more about this process and for customization of a piece.
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our inhouse team for natural finishes
& earth building techniques,
EARTHLY YOURS, was born out of our love for natural plasters. We are a team of artisans & designers rooted in sustainability and craftsmanship. We research, design, revive & build with natural materials & traditional techniques. Together with clay and lime, we create spaces that rhyme with ‘ecology’ and ‘handmade’ ; in an aesthetic that is simple and timeless. Every square feet of plaster that we make is unique, for the beauty of the craft lies in minute variations in textures created by the movement of the hand.
Contact our team of artisans here.
https://earthlyyours.in/
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FULLCIRCLE | Taproom | Bangalore |
A restaurant space that was designed to be rooted in all things Bangalore. A large framed structure with an open plan feels almost like one is outdoors with a generous part of the ground nurtured to have the foliage take over. Fullcircle is a community space brewing with biodiversity, culture, and beer.
SUBBI’S HOUSE | Farmhouse Bangalore |
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In September 2023, we embarked on a remarkable journey with Ohana School, constructing new classrooms. Proposing a unique approach, we suggested involving the children in the conception and building process. This decision led to an extraordinary integration of the project into the school’s science and civic curriculum. Drawing materials from diverse sources, including seven thousand lantana wattles from MM Hills, rice husk, straw, jaggery from Mandya region farmers, and raw earth, we crafted five organic structures as classrooms. We put up a play to tell the children where all the materials came from and the children welcomed the new bulbous classrooms, fondly named “Aanes” (elephants), with a joyous song.
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OCHRE HOUSE | Residence | Bangalore | A compact private residence with a warm pallete in west bangalore.
LITTLE GREEN CAFE | Cafe Interiors | Bangalore | Imagined like an urban oasis with natural materials.
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NATURA Experience Center | Bangalore
An experience center built for Natura, a Bangalore based developer putting sustainability at the heart of their projects. Surrounded with greenery and built using natural and recyclable materials, the center is a mix of exhibition and office spaces.
BRICK KILN HOUSE | Residence | Malur | Our first take on building with earth blocks and a composite thatch roof
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INDIGO LAB | Office Interiors | Chikaballapura | A Denim Research & Design Studio where the classic denim can be reinterpreted, rethought, and innovated.
NATURA TERRACES
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AN ELECTROPOP BALLET | Office Interiors| Bangalore | A choreography of natural materials for the interiors of Aditi Certifications Office
THE THREE KIOSKS OF CUBBON | Retail Boutique | Bangalore | Modular Kiosks of 300 sq ft each, in the heart of Bangalore City; for the Department of Horticulture, government of Karnataka
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THE BAKEHOUSE | Restoration & Interiors | Bangalore | Natural Clay Plasters for the restoration of an old bungalow
CUCKOO FOREST SCHOOL | School building | Thiruvanamalai | A hand made adobe school at the foothills of Javadu, sculpted by 40 volunteers from all over INDIA
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CLAY STATION CERAMICS STUDIO | Workshop & Boutique | Bangalore | Wattle & Daub Panels are flexible, easy to produce and a very adaptable alternative in earth architecture
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Participation in International Projects
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Castle Kiosk
Design & Build Project | Montemoro, Portugal
In the summer months of 2014, the team at Made In Earth had an incredible opportunity to explore earth architecture in the wonderful context of Montemoro in Portugal.
The Rabbit
Architects’s office for Association Casa-HAS | In collaboration with Touraterre | Avignon, France
A wooden structure filled with earth and straw, the unique form attracts curiosity, it is a transition between the city and the different actors of this big and vivid rehabilitation project.
Baraka Organic Restaurant | Restaurant Interiors | Roubaix, France
The Baraka Co-operative could be considered as the ideal recipe for sustainable architecture and development; Take a big dose of social entrepreneurship, Gather a handful of people willing to put their money together in a meaningful project, add a jar of social involvement with unemployed people of the area, mix the whole thing with a strong ecological approach. Add a big spoon of dreams and a teaspoon of madness.
Chenelet Homes
In the summer of 2014, the community homes at Chênelet in the North of France received a makeover. Our 10-day mission was to coordinate and train a team of 6 employees from Chênelet to restore 80 sq meters of clay & lime plastered walls.
Ecological Bus Stop , France
In the summer of 2014, we developed a prototype for a bus-stop in the village of Leubringhen, to be used by students and travelers in the region. “An opportunity to demonstrate ecological materials in a public space” was the brief given to us by the townhall.
Restoration of a countryside home, France | Residential |
In collaboration with : SCOP Inventerre (a cooperative of artisans and builders from the south of France)
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