One home, 4 wall supplies

What’s a wall? Properly, that’s too easy a query; anyone would reply it because the vertical assist wanted to maintain the roof above.

After all, it needn’t at all times be vertical, being the exterior floor of a shelter like in a chicken nest. The earth-borrowing animals dig into the mud and keep secure contained in the partitions of their gap. Sure sorts of crimson ants skilfully sew the leaves of their tree to reside inside. Shelter-making is an animal intuition, every doing it in its means, with innumerable strategies.

Applicable, sustainable

We homo sapiens have additionally constructed our shelters throughout the millennia, with 1000’s of kinds of homes unfold all around the human world. Applicable, reasonably priced, ecological and sustainable, our species survived attributable to these designs. The essence of this strategy was being contextual, with the logic behind each design choice, be it for the general plan, plinth peak, wall materials, window kind or inside colors.

Sadly, at the moment, we’re designing homes that may be constructed wherever, anytime, anyhow and anyway. Take a look at our typical metropolis homes in Bengaluru, Hyderabad or Chennai. Concrete footings, RCC columns, cement stable block partitions, concrete beams and roofs, cement mortar plastering, PVC home windows, chemical paints, vitrified tile floorings, and the listing goes on, predictable and a dull field.

Why completely different wall sorts

Tips on how to differentiate between homes? Just some design parts are caught to the skin wall by ‘elevation making’ and possibly colors! A standard query we might be requested is why there ought to be completely different wall sorts. Let’s pose extra inquiries to reply the above.

Ought to an exterior wall floor going through rain and wind be the identical as an inner bed room wall that faces none? Can the rear utility wall be completed cheaply and left uncovered with out plastering? Can the entrance wall have a stone that wants zero upkeep?

Can we obtain a pretty exterior view by a mixture of pure supplies and never by paint color? The solutions are everyone’s guess; there is no such thing as a want to write down right here.

Are there materials choices, and if sure, what are they apart from cement blocks and bricks? The out there vary could range between areas, nevertheless there are a number of selections inside the pure supplies.

Wall supplies

In the home for Kavya and Ashok, there are 4 kinds of wall supplies — stone, hole clay block, interlocking mud block and burnt brick, every for particular wall sorts based mostly on their location, dimension, daylight, functions, aesthetics, upkeep, viewing distance, inset pipes, adjoining furnishings, room exercise, inner daylight and such others. Naturally, a kitchen wall needn’t be the identical as that of the doorway, lounge, meditation nook, staircase aspect, rest room or research.

Given this, why can we see one wall materials being repeated all over the place? Properly, most house owners don’t realise this potential and the development trade focuses on ease, earnings and velocity.

If designs don’t matter, choices don’t exist.

(The writer is an architect engaged on eco-friendly designs)