How to make a Sustainable House

In this new series titled Sustainable Home, we will take you through a series of videos on how to build a sustainable home. At Aanandaa, we are building an innovative and creative home, which is as sustainable as possible. We have explored several construction technologies and designs to ensure we have the most natural, resilient and energy efficient home.
Sustainable architecture at Aanandaa is directed by Ar. Jitesh Malik from Studio Aureole. The integral design practice at their studio combines a commitment to environmental sensitivity with a contemporary design language and a pedagogical process. At Aanandaa, Jitesh creatively contextualised a diverse range of sustainable practices to collaboratively work towards an aesthetically enriching experience.
Studio Aureole team: Prabhjot, Richa, Mandav, Harshita and Tanvi
Collaborators/Experts: Lallan, Ashumi, Malvika (Mlime), Narayanji (Rohtak domes)
To know more about Studio Aureole see www.studioaureole.com or email [e-mail]
In this episode, Manisha Lath Gupta (Aanandaa Permaculture Project) and Architect Jitesh Malik (Studio Aureole) talk about their definition and vision of a sustainable house.
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[@tathkositanont3999]

I love the comments that 'it is not about changing the world, by changing ourselves '.

[@howardharris4718]

This is very green and sustainable cheaper and easy to access materials we think this is just an excellent way to go forward for our environment and help prevent homelessness across the globe.

[@farmaanandaa]

SO glad you agree!

[@anjalisen810]

So good to see you and the progress you are making. I was in fact just trying to research on this subject and you have provided so many helpful details. Thanks again and look forward to seeing all your progress in person some day!

[@niallwildwoode7373]

It gave me goosebumps watching this. I've built with wattle & daub for years, but am now designing a rammed earth greenhouse to replace my aging polytunnel. We don't have a history of rammed earth in the UK, although we do have cob. You've inspired me hugely. Thankyou and namaste ❤

[@farmaanandaa]

So glad to hear that. Thank you

[@h-dawg]

⁠@@farmaanandaaI watched the other video about the house and I really really hope you do a separate detailed video about the cellar design and how you control the humidity and also keep it ventilated. Thanks.

[@manojmehta1910]

This ramearth works is actually revival of rural technology which was in place some 30 years back before this cement revolution when soil,Sand & lime where the main ingredients. This project is an amalgation of rural knowledge &modern architecture. Back at my rural house ,when the summer temp soars in between 40-45degree Centigrade, it's cool respite inside without any fan /electricity and u never come to know it's evening. A great work done by your team in preserving the ancient traditional culture which was self-dependent/reliant & eco-friendly.

[@farmaanandaa]

Thank you and so good to hear about your experience 🙏

[@DE-vr1qs]

Thank you for sharing your experience and knowledge. I am looking forward to seeing all the material you will release as I am planning a very similar project in Morocco: A 2ha permaculture farm with a sustainable house. A bit different climate from where you are based, but I am sure there will be a lot to learn from your project.

[@shivarajkumarbabaladi8997]

Thank you for caring Mother Earth. Hoping to see the completed home. If possible please share the plan. I am also thinking to start construction at Farm. Thank you again.

[@anupam4672]

Thank You Aananda and Manisha. Really looking forward to it.

[@SenthilGaneshS]

Thanks for sharing. Waiting for the next episode

[@augustyasinghmalik3778]

Very incredible idea you have

[@lahirudulanchinthaka114]

This series is very helpful ,thank you for sharing valuable information

[@deepalihebbare8660]

Happy to hear abt ur project,best wishes

[@gobhatia123]

Very excited to see this new series. Can't wait to see more details and education on this. I would like to replicate this concept on my farm in MP.

[@archbharat]

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[@nishibhandari7824]

A treat listening to this Video and am really flabbergasted with this concept. It's new and unknown to many. Heartiest Congratulations to Jitesh Malik, the Architect and also to owner of this beautiful home. God bless

[@farmaanandaa]

Thank you!

[@Krishna-ep9wy]

Mam do you still own cows? And why don't you get ducks in your farm as they control grass and pest & where do you sell your farm produce... What was the cost of course that you did on permaculture....

[@THEINDIANBROTHERHOOD]

Mam eagerly waiting for your quality videos. It's a pleasure.

[@minoradsouza2055]

Those are MOST of the requirements of my dream house. Can't wait to watch future video on these topics. Please have some tips on how build these eco houses in heavy rain zones like Goa. And also have homes that's don't takeup 1000 sq MTR of land. Small eco friends homes for the average person. Thank you

[@farmaanandaa]

We will talk about techniques. You can scale them to any size.

[@livefromplanetearth]

beautiful ✊🏾🙏🏾

[@AngelAngel-so8ms]

Great Peace, Love and Light! Thank you so much for sharing your experience. I want to learn natural building in compressed earth construction. As a masonry student, I wondered if lime can replace commonly used concrete in rammed earth. So, I am enjoying your wonderful work. Plan to watch all your videos. Your channel is such an inspiration. Utmost respect and appreciation.

[@farmaanandaa]

Thank you so much!

[@darkterminator1461]

Heyyyy Iam Happy for your house💞

[@zh1959]

that's great!

[@mitumallick8984]

After a so long , madam , thank you for many information , take care ...

[@pinakiranjanburman7239]

Thank you for sharing

[@riturajsandhupeasant4885]

Ma'am keep updating your website with plans and list of material used. Very inspiring. Thanks for sharing Architecture Team details.😊🌼

[@farmaanandaa]

Will do. Need to make time for it!

[@jaffarsamoon6711]

Good wishes sister, Amanda is a farm and house of Aanand 🌹📌👌

[@SamitaKar]

Inspiring. Looking forward to the series. One day I will definitely have a Permaculture garden of my own. You are my inspiration.

[@farmaanandaa]

Im sure you will!

[@balakone]

I’m very impressed, hope to do the same in Mali

[@jdevice5320]

Hope to visit anananda.

[@sonak3717]

Thank you for the new series - I am looking forward to see details of your completed home. Is it possible to give an approximate cost per square foot excluding the land cost as I already have a farm and am very interested in building an eco-friendly house.

[@farmaanandaa]

Difficult to do so because we havent finished building, but it costs the same as regular construction. Only material cost is lesser and man power cost is more.

[@jiteshmalik3606]

Cost per square foot could range between 2000 to 3000 or more, depending on the availabity of materials and resources, infrastructural costs and kind of finishes. If we look, just at rammed earth, labour cost of ramming and finishing is abour 225 per cubic foot but total cost is dependent on a few factors: 1. Availability of earth: on site or does this have to be brought to site. What other aggregates you need to mix with your base earth/soil. 2. Experimentation/ Tests to get the right mix...proportions of stabaliser to the base earth/soil. We have used about 10% lime by volume for the earth/soil type that we have here. In some cases ( more sandy soil) 5-7% cement may work better as a stabaliser. If you have the right mix and can do thicker walls, you may not use any stabaliser, but more labour for ramming. 3. Shuttering or Formwork cost: This can be reduced if you are sharing, or renting or reusing the materials afterwards. We have used marine plywood and metal pipes, both of which we plan to reuse on the same site. 4. You will save on plastering cost if you do the repairs well and leave all the rammed earth walls exposed.

[@sonak3717]

@@jiteshmalik3606 Thank you so much for the approximate cost

[@MoneyInHindi]

Beautiful talk mam. will visit ananada someday

[@Franal12]

❤️❤️❤️

[@yogeshpilankar]

looking forward to this series and one day build house with earth materials :)

[@farmaanandaa]

That will be great!

[@DaxxTerryGreen]

Oh I love your work friends. I too, am a rammed earth builder. I'm located in Asheville, NC, USA. I would love to come and work with you. Daxx

[@55arun]

Eagerly waiting to see your house madem

[@madhusravani9587]

We definitely want a home tour of this beautiful house 😁😁

[@farmaanandaa]

The final video in the series will be a tour!

[@edmund6392]

@@farmaanandaa can not wait!

[@DilipKumar-sz4mw]

Congratulations

[@anthonyraj9000]

Very interesting and excited also request that the cost of construction of such a beautiful shelter could be informed.

[@parthasarathigoswami2020]

👍👍🙏🙏🙏

[@sangeet358]

Very nice to see and all the best. I really liked your being open to taking risks and stretching the limits on becoming off-grid and keeping sustainability first. One question is regarding the project execution duration. Does it take longer and lesser time to build than conventional house of same area?

[@farmaanandaa]

I think its taking lesser time.

[@jdevice5320]

It would be more interesting if we could see the structure build up with week long outcome.

[@perisesha]

In the first few seconds of the video, I could see some jeevamrut preparation plastic drums were kept behind scene. Do we need to many jeevamrut drums to irrigate in farms? I am just curios to know as looking to implement permaculture in my farm! If i am not wrong, those small drums can be easily carried to the required plantation areas for irrigation than drip setup! Is that the purpose the drums are seen with large numbers...

[@farmaanandaa]

Those drums are of Lime which we have used in house construction. For jeevamruta you need only one big drum.

[@sandradrago8564]

Where is the farm

[@manoranjanparida7874]

Good wishes for u

[@farmaanandaa]

Thank you!

[@prashantbirajdar3738]

🙏🏼🧡❤️🌱🌍

[@vinayhoysala]

Till you publish the rest of video's could you share the pointers your research or any other KZbin channel you followed to learn building earth home ?

[@farmaanandaa]

Will try to blog on www.aanandaa.com

[@khushboobothra717]

Plaster finishes video please and what about foundation.

[@farmaanandaa]

Foundation is stone and lime. Will do a video on lime finishes soon

[@javidahmed3695]

We want to be a part of your struggle .in pakistan this i major need of that type of house which less construction cost

[@JAVEDKHAN-od8cc]

When you are making something detail instruction of the material used how we can use this in our livinghood

[@nayan4121]

Any agency, for making a rammed earth house in India who help me in West Bengal state

[@wellnesspoint2090]

Very nice

[@manaswinich]

Hi mam, I want to know about is any anti termite liquids are used in construction.

[@farmaanandaa]

None

[@Padma1026]

I dono how to express myself while watching this video, really inspiring, it hurts me when I feel like we cannot educate people who seems very dangerously harming Mother Earth . We are actually working hard to live like this , very soon we might seek your small help 😊 to work and to create one more nature friendly project like this , so much respect from our end …. Love you so much … wish you all good luck .

[@farmaanandaa]

Thank you so much! All the best for your project

[@janewambui1288]

Hi..... very inspiring,im in kenya im wondering would i be able to get someone to do this kind of a house here, seems there are experts in your country...

[@farmaanandaa]

The details of the architect are given in the description. You can contact him and see if he can help

[@zaingamingyt5075]

Hi Manisha Can you please upload a detailed video on rammed earth House construction. By details I mean from scratch till finish. Or if you can provide any link on Web which consists such details. Thanks.

[@farmaanandaa]

Start to finish will be a technical tutorial. Maybe we can put a course around it in our online Permaculture school

[@chinnaba]

Please share your location. Would like to visit and learn.

[@JAVEDKHAN-od8cc]

Do not use back ground music

[@nshri27]

I want technically help to build house

[@farmaanandaa]

PLease contact our Architect, whose details are given in the description.

[@nobakwaas5161]

Hi, love the new series. I went to your site to order seeds and noticed bael seeds. Are they native or hybrid?

[@farmaanandaa]

Native

[@user-uo3gy4df4t]

We are planning to have a new house in Kerala and want to try this method. How can I get in touch to get more information?

[@travellingjohn7765]

🤞

[@deepanchakkaravarthy2300]

Im looking for the project ...if possible every one follow the story

[@namelessanonymous5216]

Any experiment with Adobe or cob?

[@farmaanandaa]

No, none

[@sheetalautoaccessories9839]

Need to construct at navi mumbai

[@farmaanandaa]

Good luck!

[@humbledb4jesus]

your sustainability should be defined by the simplicity of it's set up: 1> ram pump for running water - gardening (including hydroponic gardening) and long term water storage 2> 6x12v battery bank that is charged by waterwheel, solar and wind (both the water and the wind can be rigged with an simple electric motor) - depending on the weather conditions...heck, they have even developed a charging system that works off of a rocket stove... the main goal of the battery bank is for shelter heating...if it can be used for lighting, etc - then that's just gravy... 3> shelter heating (non electrical) - saw a vid where a craftsman wrapped the stove chimney around the shelter and out the other side (where he built an access door for smoking and drying meat...another one built his bed on top of the horizontal part of the chimney to warm his bed)... 4> dealing with human poop is actually easier if you don't have to ship it off somewhere else... i guess the key is to not depend on the technology - always have a backup plan that doesn't involve it...

[@farmaanandaa]

Would love to hear more about your sustainable house. Sounds awesome!

[@neelamrana4733]

मैं भी हिमाचल में मेरे पास पुराने घर पत्थर और सामान भी है इको फ्रेंडली घर बनाने में मेरी सहायता करें

[@farmaanandaa]

हम आर्किटेक्ट नहीं है। इसके लिए आपको एक आर्किटेक्ट ढूँढता पड़ेगा

[@captamit80]

Ma'm can you please suggest a architect to work on a project at our farmhouse in Agra

[@farmaanandaa]

Pls email Jitesh Malik on [e-mail]

[@PramodWall]

Is it allowed to construct house on agriculture land ?

[@farmaanandaa]

Please check the laws locally in your area

[@lillyaranha8350]

Show your house inside please

[@farmaanandaa]

Pls check out kzbin.info/www/bejne/bpu3nnqIrt5nkJYsi=vHKXN_A_Cyl2_ruJ

[@simardeepkaursandhu9974]

I want to see your farm Ananda farm...how it possible please guide me.

[@farmaanandaa]

You can attend a farm tour. Pls book your tickets here www.aanandaa.com/event-calendar

[@dudilepandharinath8987]

S. Madam Ji we can construct sustainable houses. We have to spend crores of rupees for it. These houses are more costly than the regular ones. Thanks. Wish you good luck ahead.

[@farmaanandaa]

Not true at all

[@habeeburahmanc.a6757]

When is the next progress video coming? Eagerly waiting ✌🏻

[@farmaanandaa]

Soon. Thank you for your patience

[@HayatPermacultureFarms]

Mam I want to do complete training for permaculture and rammed earth

[@farmaanandaa]

Check out our online courses on aanandaa.teachable.com

[@HayatPermacultureFarms]

And mam I want to visit your farm too..and I will enroll it today only... thank you

[@shishirmishra2530]

This is awesome! I am also planning to build a rammed earth house on our permaculture farm. Could you please share contact info of Mr Jitesh Malik or his firm? Thanks

[@farmaanandaa]

All details in description of the video

[@sunil2130]

Do we need to take permission or convert land from govt. To build a farm house to live on agriculture land? If anyone know let me know please, thank you 🙏

[@syedsaqlain4250]

Mam could you please share with us your expense to income ratio at aananda?

[@farmaanandaa]

On a public platform .. probably not!

[@khushichauhan5073]

Mem my name anil kumar mem mere pass jameen hai Rajasthan me Kotputli ke pass 55 pakka bigha pahado ke beech aap ki jameen ki jesi me bhi jali kheti karna chahta hu

[@farmaanandaa]

Bahut badhiya. All the best!

[@ThoneJones]

Awesome. Can I come live with you? 😆

[@farmaanandaa]

Soon we will accept guests!

[@exoticfruitcauldron4422]

something about roof and also Percentage of clay% lime% ? how to build a roof please, how to make rammed earth martial that most important part no ones tell

[@farmaanandaa]

Yes roofs will be covered in subsequent videos. Stay tuned

[@exoticfruitcauldron4422]

@@farmaanandaa thanks ,percentage of the clay lime n sand,ll you at some stage whole floor plane with cement blocks you build,i love to make something like this at our farm house in pakistan. Regards

[@chan_for]

90% jargons

[@farmaanandaa]

What jargon did we use and you didn't understand? Specific feedback is more helpful

[@anjaleechiwhane]

Most architects whom we approach don’t know ANCD of sustainability architecture and misguide clients to an extent that they lose lot of money.clients please be ware of such architects

[@farmaanandaa]

Well, clients and architects have to work together. You cannot expect an architect to know everything - you have to read and research too.

[@shrutibajarevlogs]

Bhartiya bhasha mai batao... I can't understand English

[@farmaanandaa]

We have a global audience, so we speak in a global language

[@vineetchaturvedi9793]

How much living space is sustainable? None of the current architects will address that basic question. The sustainable living paradigm has to expand to include the size of houses being built. A small family can live very comfortably in about 1200 Sqft of living space. Should they buy or construct a large house of 2500 sqft living space simply because they have the financial capacity? Should the need for external validation drive this family to build a large house? Sustainable living can only happen by limiting our wants. No architect will tell you that for obvious reasons.

[@farmaanandaa]

True. We also constantly pushed the architect to reduce the space and eliminate useless areas.

[@deepatitirmare6453]

Plz give mob no. how built for me this kind of home

[@farmaanandaa]

All details shared in description

[@manoranjanmahapatra9090]

Mam please make your videos in hindi

[@farmaanandaa]

We have an international audience, therefore we make most videos on English.

[@siddharthmanikpuri5560]

आपसे एक अनुरोध है कि जब भी आप वीडियो बनाएं काम का विडियो ज्यादा दिखाया करें पूरे वीडियो में आप और आपका आर्किटेक्ट ज्यादा नज़र आता है अगर कुछ गलत लिखा हो तो क्षमा करें

[@farmaanandaa]

यह पहला वीडियो है। आप बाकी वीडियो देखिए इस प्लेलिस्ट में

[@ShyamMaheshwari-vc4kf]

हिंदी मे बताते जो ज्यादा लोगों तक आपकी बात पहुँचती

[@farmaanandaa]

हिन्दी में बहुत वीडियो है।

[@MrAbasaheb]

Hindi mein bolna chahiye sabko english samaj mein nahi aati.hindi mein log jyala pasand karenge

[@farmaanandaa]

Aapki baat theek hai, par humare video bahut sare desho ke log dekhte hai

[@JAVEDKHAN-od8cc]

You are taking much time in talk rather than work for which are making vedieo

[@JAVEDKHAN-od8cc]

In this video you are only talking through out not showing the work A SUSTAINABLE HOUSE

[@farmaanandaa]

Pls see the remaining videos in the playlist

[@leenamyon1720]

The title of this video says,, how to build a sustainable house,,, but it's all talking, no showing how to build. Wasted my time watching

[@farmaanandaa]

Sorry to hear that. This video is the first of a series. We hope you'll stay tuned and see the details of how the house is built.

[@ausdershwetkang]

How can i contact you... Need to meet you

[@farmaanandaa]

Pls email us on [e-mail]