Preserving India's heritage of mud architecture. Biju Bhaskar of Thannal.

[@turiyapanama]

Love seeing this! I am doing the same here in Panama, building the first natural building school. Here, they are tearing down the few mud homes that are still standing because they are "old" and "outdated", but you can build beautiful, modern homes with natural materials as well. I am an engineer by training so I also made the switch to natural after a "tech" background and love seeing everything that natural materials can do!

[@pravinthakur9881]

भारतीय वैभव निसर्ग को साथ लेकर विकसित हुआ, निर्माण हुआ था, अतः यह शाश्वत सत्य भी हे, निसर्ग से ही जीवन सुरक्षित तथा आनंद से भरा होता है ।।।

[@app8790]

In Odisha, the mud houses they've built are so strong, the g+1 houses are still standing since over 100 years

[@parthasarathigoswami2020]

Would you please give me the name of the location, so I can reach to the location

[@app8790]

@@parthasarathigoswami2020 you can find those houses in most rural parts. Very abundant in western Odisha. The ceiling of the ground floors are made with tree trunks and lumber, in some cases as I've seen with bricks too but idk which one is stronger. On top of that again comes the mud which also makes the floor of the upper floor. Then the first floor is generally with a low ceiling height which has the roof of the house made with khapar or the mud tiles and bamboo along with other wooden structure used to support it. Those kind of houses were built way back in time and not everyone could build them in the British period. I only have the knowledge of what's in my area though.

[@KrishnaKumar-hz8my]

​@@parthasarathigoswami2020come to mayurbhanj santal village

[@ishapatrick8375]

How much does it cost to build a mud house in odisha?

[@RajeshKumar-er2dh]

Same is with Himachal Pradesh

[@keshavtyagi8322]

I have been following Thannal since many years now.... they are doing awesome work... preserving our ancient knowledge and providing it to the current generation.

[@rupeshkumardas6460]

Requested to visit Ladakh,there are many no of houses built from mud , not only ground floor ,3 to 4th floor with the help of mud.

[@vaibhav_kushwaha_25]

I love my old mud house, it gives me unexplainable happiness there, it connects me to nature, it is temparature proof, good for immunity, although need more maintainance than pukka house.

[@MountpeaceshelterKedari24]

What's the use of it..if you can't help me building a mud house in my Village in Uttarakhand....😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 please help some to build this kind of house for me

[@srmchinni3]

I am sure, i will build my own house with mud. I am saving all these videos for my reference. Thank you DTE.

[@iamgroot4706]

I'm opting for rammed earth house. God willing, I will succeed. 🙏

[@umarshaikh3817]

Same here 😊

[@i-am-anon]

Hey man ! I would be grateful if u will share your videos collection. If u have made any playlist of that, pls make it public. Waiting for ur reply

[@swayamcurrentaffairs9601]

By doing this we can save our environment.

[@sylmadelcoke607]

I am so grateful I came across your video. I am planning on building a rammed earth home in Ghana and I am curious to know more about the inclusion of herbs in the walls. I was impressed to hear that Indian youths are returning to rural areas. Thank you

[@D2E]

Glad it was helpful!

[@tarrasteno]

as you are from Ghana, there is an ancient African plastering water proof method called Tadelakt. It's from Morocco kzbin.info/www/bejne/gF63aH2egZepsNU you can also get an idea on how a Moroccan mud house looks like kzbin.info/www/bejne/gJ-7oqCuqNCHrs0

[@ShalkiZS]

When I grow old, I would love to build my own mud home. Thanks Mr. Biju and Down To Earth!

[@asifsiddiqueee]

Why wait to grow old and loose your golden time to enjoy life?

[@sandeep-pe3jg]

I'm feeling so good after watching this video, more people should know that Mud houses are still a thing and we can still build houses with mud using modern techniques.

[@MrPjrdietl]

I took part in construction of our mud house when I was13years old. It was a great experience still I remember the experience after 48 years.

[@safuwanfauzi5014]

Sub-Sahara Africa like Nigeria, Benin, Ghana, Mali, Ivory Coast, Togo, Burkina Faso all these people used mud to build building, Akan architecture, Benin architecture, Yoruba architecture, Dahomey architecture and Sudano-Sahelian/Mali and Hausa architecture all used mud. most of Bantu and Nilotic used mud to build cone hut, the King, Noble hut are bigger and commoner are small just like we see in the video or media. Dahomey Palace complex and Benin palace complex are example of mud architecture, mixed with wood and stone.

[@surojitgupta9854]

Fascinating project, I would recommend them to also look at tribal architecture from Jharkhand and bengal.. they have been also building mud homes.

[@parthasarathigoswami2020]

If I am correct, you are talking about Bankura, Medinipur. If I am wrong then please give me the name of location

[@asitpurohit_108]

Any place in West Bengal , Odisha , jharkhanda , Bihar , it’s always beautiful

[@cinemarevisit7916]

Can you point out which tribes are you referring to? Thanks,

[@surbhithakur26]

@@cinemarevisit7916 I think Santhal Tribes.

[@dhanashreenikam9994]

Bhaskarji,It feels so proud and happy to see people like you who are working for preserving and spreading our old technique and knowledge ..👍

[@RinkaSingh]

There's an issue with Mud Houses. The (rich and fertile) topsoil gets used up, making the land barren. This hits our agriculture. I have personal experience of this - the land on which we built our house was completely barren because the top soil had been cleaned off. Not even weeds grew for over 5 years. It took us time to revive that land by burying our kitchen waste all over the land and importing/spreading topsoil + manure from elsewhere.

[@ashwinsnmv]

I think the clay composition and natural soil health was poor to begin with. Because you don't have to clean an entire field full of top soil. A small section of the land where you are planning for a water pond or something similar should also work, assuming healthy soil composition is available

[@MsMjmj77]

we don't need top soil.. in fact top soil makes the house weaker as it has organic matter which is prone to decaying

[@RinkaSingh]

@@MsMjmj77 You didn't get it. I agree we don't need top soil when constructing a house on the plot. But we definitely need top soil for the garden/surrounding area to grow any kind of vegetation. My point was - the ENTIRE top soil was cleared out making the land completely barren. We couldn't grow anything on it for years. This didn't affect the house construction.

[@tiwantiwaabibiman2603]

Not necessarily, if those communities are composting to help replace the soil being used to build homes and augmenting the soil with renewable vegetation additives (i.e. straw).

[@meghams3891]

@@RinkaSingh The top soil removed should be preserved and can be used for landscaping.

[@DineshYadav-zt6mf]

i observed that the carving on mud house walls in tamilnadu are very similar to mud carvings in uttar pradesh. that shows that once we lived with in shared culture

[@santhoshmoothedath]

Bijuchettaaa ghambheeram 👍🏻

[@motherslove686]

I live in a house 100 years old built by mud with surky. I love my home.. even though for onlookers it is a very old home that need to replaced by a concrete building.

[@Christinalight219]

I’m so so grateful this video came into my life. Thank you! Not only for this video but for your passion and dedication to documenting these techniques and sharing it with everyone so they can have this knowledge and freedom to create their own homes and in turn life. Thank you deeply.

[@DashrathSingh]

Have you documented limestone based construction as well? That was very popular in last 500 years. You see all forts in Rajasthan were created using it and they are still standing after 500 years. You will come across havelis in Shekhawati region of Rajasthan, all created using it. Everybody stopped using it 30 years ago when cement came. It’s very very stable material.

[@jishnut.r.6597]

Kudos to thannal for reviveing our lost artform 🙂 👏

[@krishnapriyas8740]

Respected both sir and madam. I am krishnapriya living in madurai. I have seen your passion towards our ancient people art of building house with nature. It's only livelihood. And documentation of all types of our heritage house around India. I am immersed in pleasure. I am saluting to all your works. And i am wishing you to attian all pleasure. From my childhood i was interested in architecture with nature friendly. But now i am as special educator.

[@krishnapriyas8740]

We are going built mud house.

[@littlekitty6766]

I also wish to have a mud house in future . It will smell like heaven when it rains.😆😄

[@tracelee7332]

It doesn't smell at all my friend. Have you ever stepped foot in one of these buildings? It's this 3D way of thinking, from a result of mass manipulation from birth that leads to the destruction of the planet.. I urge you to forget everything you think you know... And look up the definition of the Dunning Kruger effect. Peace to you ❤

[@АлінаМихайльо-ж8й]

Дуже дякую Вам! Ви робите важливу роботу для майбутнього! Низько вклоняюсь Вам і щиро поважаю! Хай щастить!😇❤💞

[@QuinnCabrera-x2u]

Great job Down to earth & thannal Team . By doing this we can save our environment..

[@Edward4Plantagenet]

Shibam city in Yemen is world heritage site, It has mud build skyscrapers.

[@ogathingo8885]

Mud houses were considered primitive and as poor men’s house . Today we are slowly learning to shift our thoughts processes and appreciate ancient knowledges and their wisdom! As for me , I believe that there more accumulated knowledges of of science and wisdom among the many trible elders that would serve the humanity more sustainable way than in most of the acclaimed modern “ temple of education “, where no thoughts are given of side effects and longlasting damage that scientifical achievements can cause( Atombombe, bio weapons , cancer and climate change causing products etc…….)

[@sushmitasutradhar4880]

Yes, documentation is very important

[@sbdiaries]

Good to see the old skills of house building being kept alive ❤❤❤

[@domovoi_0]

Incredible. Love and blessings! These people will be surviving the coming crises.

[@riturajsandhupeasant4885]

Great marvellous task to document these beautiful architecture and building practices. 🌼💚🌍 Thanks Thannal team. I follow your KZbin and website. Will surely come to learn these practices. 🙂💌🏅

[@kaushikbaruah3731]

I think it's a very great initiative because it's a eco-friendly and all the raw materials can be found without doing any destruction to the nature... Moreover mud houses are remains cool in hotter days and much more reliable than cement, which is mostly responsible for dust and air pollution

[@SarathVipin]

Great job Down to earth & thannal Team 🙏😄

[@D2E]

Thank you so much.

[@MessyTimes]

Anything that empowers local people to do, build and live without interference from central authorities is both good for humanity and irritating to those types of petty despots who love the administrative, centralizing state. Good for Thannal!

[@kushwaharules]

Incredible work Thannal and team.

[@ideafactory-in]

Inspiring and informative video, best wishes to Biju and team Thannal 🤝

[@nicoleroitberg1712]

thank you so much for preserving this so important way of building and also by doing this, ensuring people do not loose this wisdom that is fastly being lost. Same thing here in brazil. And to preserve this is also to honor the identity and culture and sustainability of different peoples.

[@SK-he5yj]

DownToEarth, a great video but how do you put decadence which means luxury and poverty in the same sentence? I think you meant "mud houses are seen as a symbol of difficulty/indigence/destitution and poverty...

[@RA-uz7px]

Sir, I am jnterested in building a mud house in the village, but I find it difficult to find the workers to carry out the task

[@dreadfulbodyguard7288]

I think Thannal should start taking contracts to build mud houses if not doing so already.

[@VTS_99]

Earth quakes .. unexpected floods, rains so and so forth... we evolved from these which was our previous generations life style again going back ... Its like a CYCLE go back and then evolve with technology then get back away from chaos .. its never ending cyclic form

[@snkarbhr]

And this "Modernity" have put this whole world and all species into climate change trouble! Which cannot be reversed now!!! Kudos

[@Kuch_Bii369]

Thank u so much sir ... Great initiative, I'll definitely visit...👏👏☮️

[@krishnasai1232]

Appreciate what you do DTE org 👍

[@Shiva-Cosmos]

This is called Sensible Filming. Thanks for this video.

[@ashutiwari5038]

Love from Rajasthan 🚩 ❤️

[@Chris72Ruth]

Breathable home...nice concept.. all the best.

[@bettinakuwait]

I love it. Share more on their initiative

[@tommygun7614]

I think, Indians shouldn’t shy away from using Cow Dung too, as it is the one of the biggest contribution by India to the world. Cow Dung Mixture keeps home cooler than Mud. Anyway, it was nice to see that there are Hindus who are preserving their culture.

[@rakeshsoans]

Amazing work Biju.

[@Ajay-jf6vx]

Mud houses are more cooler than concrete houses. In these times of global warming and increasing heat, mud houses is a good option.

[@Pjrdjf]

I was wondering whether we can build multi storey building using mud. There seemed to be one building at the end which was built with mud. I think they need to stress on that as well.

[@muralikrishnan3680]

Hey guys sorry to point out, but at 0.46 the word to use isn't decadence, definitely got the wrong word there.

[@robinsonrex1280]

These artisans need to be roped in to create a syllabus for a certificate course to be taught in community colleges, training centers run by union and state governments. In addition, architects, civil engineers and need to come together to come up with a industrialized construction methods, once that comes into play, constructing mud houses will be much faster.

[@ApoorvaDixit1488]

Great work👌🏻👌🏻... Another company is Geeli Mitti which is working in making mud and sustainable houses.

[@mohantejachitturi2472]

my grand fathers home used mud only, walls are so thick and even floor is made up of mud , roof with hand made mud tiles and palm wood for the frame to put tiles, you need to visit the konaseema in andhrapradesh, old manduva logili homes there are very good, they are cool,

[@sanjayjorwal3705]

love it , so sad for me to find my own culture in this way but still feeling good about it

[@rahatazam-hh3mf]

Wonderful!!

[@nagavenig5438]

Great job down-to-earth and thannal

[@chathunivlog]

this is great ! love from sri lanka

[@nandini2999]

Mud house, no cars, is the solution, for enhancing the quality of life at earth. Earth will be fine, there will be no environmental problems then.

[@yeahimlistening]

Beautiful and preserving ..

[@geetasingh1590]

Sir hats off to you.Great work

[@sagarpandey6616]

We have mud home in villae which is almost broken Now I am delhi.. I hope to rebuild again soon.

[@naumanzakir8005]

Mud and lime buildings are good and should be brought into mainstream buildings as cement, red clay bricks and iron are very expensive. But to make it mainstream, you need to have end product similar to modern buildings with clean lines and corners like cement buildings. Just look at the buildings showcased in the video itself, most of them at best look like poormain’s home or lower middle class at best and some upper middle class folks who join this movement are dis gruntled of the modernism. I know old buildings of mud and lime are still standing in india and Pakistan after thousand years and they are very simple and stylish. We need to come out of ‘hippy culture’ for this to become acceptable to masses. Similar work is being done by Yasmeen Lari- architect and PAKSBAB society in Pakistan. I would love to have lime rendered house which is strong and should ladt a lifetime and is contemporary. Any examples of such work? We need recipes of how to make mud/ lime bricks, walls and smooth plasters! Help!

[@mlg1279]

There are plenty of examples where mud architecture and modern technology have been successfully married

[@aleenaprasannan2146]

Modern building have sharp corners because it's easier. And the brick work needed to make stable curved walls are getting lost. The stability of Modern buildings are all on concrete beams,pillar and lindle, and the bricks are just fillers that's not stacked to enhance stability, so they can only make straight walls between the constraints of straight pillars and beams. Straight walls and sharp corners are a handicap of modern construction not a benefit

[@nirmalrana3538]

This is the future

[@darshita1270]

mud homes are present all over in cholisthan region , which extends upto kutch region in gujarat.

[@pjflynn]

Brilliant!

[@esakkirajanm3844]

வியாபார உலகம் மக்களின் வாழ்வியலையே சிதைத்து விட்டது.... மக்கள் தற்போது விழித்துக் கொள்ள ஆரம்பித்து விட்டார்கள்... 👍

[@stelluspereira]

Very interesting work, Is it possible to publish the link about the documentation you described in the video time stamp @9:35

[@bhaskarandbhaskard5728]

This was very hygenic houses in ancient now also available in some villages

[@sumanprusty1173]

Are these houses safe for nature disasters like flood, typhoon and earthquake? Please reply.🙏

[@அறஆழி]

❤❤❤❤ whats is the chepeast mud house budget for 500sq ft.. Very tight budget suggest, any simple model is ok guys🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@saibihaq6789]

Hi, Sir the soil I have at site is having approximately 70% clay and 3% silt, no gravel and sand in it. What should I mix in it like stabilizers? Thanks

[@AmrithaNair-ux5tj]

We have a traditional house made of mud in kerala which is 80 years old we are trying to save this house, is there any video u guys suggest me, please

[@VivekKumar-yq6yu]

One question Sir - how to protect mud house from termites?

[@Tatu420]

Great work sir ji 🙏

[@Bamidele-ee8ch]

How are you able to build without building permits and adhering to a building code? Do you have to submit a site plan to the city? Can you please help me with this question

[@OrendaDesignStudio]

Great work 😍😍😍😍.

[@RanjiniGanesh]

Lovely, is this expensive? Do you take up small projects in Bangalore?

[@jitendrainamke646]

I am from maharashtra. How can I build mud house. We dont have red clay nearby.

[@aiquantum9]

Can we make it look like cement home ? If done plaster outside walls

[@advityarajsingh]

What about the strength of the house we converted from mud to cement due to the weakness of mud

[@girishkumarg647]

Bro .. I believe if rammed earth technology is used, mud houses are even able to tackle high intensity earthquakes also.

[@ujjalsinghgohain7317]

I have no problem in mud houses My concern is security a thief can easily enter the mud house instead of concrete

[@haripsd26]

And the name is thannal 🔥

[@nshri27]

Namaskar sir Aap bahut hi behtarin ho. Aapse Jo jankari milati hai vahi Hindi mein hoti to samajhne mein aasan hota kripa kar ke Hindi mein video aap bnao

[@MyOrganicVlogs]

Great information, thank you। , Can I make mud house , I want to ..

[@naveenrs7742]

I think Kadukkai Powder and such things will be used in the natural cement

[@Edward4Plantagenet]

I am going for Stone masonry House. Water harvesting, solar energy, lots of Trees.

[@anaaparicio5280]

Very interesting but it would have been better if we could understand all the talking eventually with subtitles

[@kanhaiyagupta3693]

Truly real talent

[@bongmantu]

thanks a lot 😍😍😍😍

[@mkganesh091]

Sir, me and my wife build mud house , every thing is fine, but iam facing termites problem, is there any natural solution, please suggest

[@arunrajan4877]

This is so amazing!!

[@devenderm7959]

Hi sir I'm coming to meet you I'm devendra from Hyderabad.

[@kumarajit2006]

Appreciate the work

[@mehkhasur]

Awesome 👌

[@Srikantaiah_Jaya]

Green building should also be practical, safe and private, otherwise a family cannot survive for long.

[@prashantpandya2933]

Great work