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Category: Adobe

The affordability & timelessness of EARTH

Earth is the oldest and has been the most essential building material over centuries. The tradition of making sun dried raw earth bricks popularly known as adobes goes back to the beginning of human society. Adobe is versatile, viable and provides great flexibility in the construction of earth buildings. These bricks are fireproof, non toxic and has an excellent thermal performance. Adobe buildings can be found across continents where it has been spontaneously and continuously adapted by people of different cultures for housing as well as monumental structures.

At Made In EARTH, we use adobes extensively for our projects, whether made on site using the soil from the source or given as a contract to a local brick kiln, adobes are economical and very feasible! Learn more through our blog articles ;

Eleven Thousand Sun Dried Bricks

“Of Three little pigs, one built a house of straw, another of sticks and the last built his house of bricks, Soon came the days of the big bad wolf, […]

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2015 Shubha Suma Farmhouse, Adobe, Blog, Earth Plaster, Lime Plaster, Natural Plaster, Oxide & Lime Flooring
October 5, 2017October 5, 2017

2016 Hands On Mud

Introducing Earth building at NIT,Trichy When you build with earth, you have to get your hands into it! Here are glimpses from a series of HANDS-ON workshops; introducing various earth […]

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2016 Hands on mud workshop at NIT Trichy, Adobe, Blog, Earth and Straw, Rammed earth, Wattle and Daub, Workshops
March 24, 2016October 17, 2017
1 comment on We imagine a school, in Earth

We imagine a school, in Earth

“For us, it goes in circles, move and continue, and move and continue and keep moving.”– This brief from the team at Kashi Education Society came a long way in […]

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2015 Kashi Primary School, Adobe, Blog
November 2, 2015April 28, 2021

2015 Cute and Care

  Suma and Shuba are two sisters from Bangalore with secret alter egos. They are setting up an organic farm near the small village of Seegehalli, in the outer reaches […]

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2015 Shubha Suma Farmhouse, Adobe, Blog, Earth Floors, Earth Plaster, Lime Plaster, Natural Plaster, Tadelakt
October 13, 2015January 12, 2018
6 comments on Stars in mud mortar

Stars in mud mortar

Then came Kali, he gave me a hundred kisses on my cheek, I hugged him and did not let him go. He was excited. He was one of those to […]

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2015 Build the Cuckoo School, 2015 Cuckoo Forest School, Adobe, Arches Vaults Domes, Blog, Workshops
July 20, 2015October 24, 2017
1 comment on Clay Clan and Cuckoo

Clay Clan and Cuckoo

Together with Cuckoo Movement for children and Varun Thautam

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2015 Build the Cuckoo School, 2015 Cuckoo Forest School, Adobe, Arches Vaults Domes, Blog, Workshops
July 20, 2015October 24, 2017

Making an earthen floor

Most people often remember earth as a crude material; it’s plain looks that are so contrasting from the aesthetics of finished industrial products. But the irony is that the principle […]

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2014 Restoration of a countryside home, France, Adobe, Blog, Earth Floors, Earth Plaster, Lime Plaster, Natural Plaster, Tadelakt
January 14, 2015January 12, 2018
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