The Futanes live here, within walls made entirely of mud blocks, plastered with mud and painted with lime, and on a floor made from lime-enriched mud
Photoghraphs: Aparna Pallavi
Thatched roofs and roofs made from baked tiles allow for better ventilation
Photoghraphs: Aparna Pallavi
Indigenous ways of using local timber are slowly fading. Hanging together in a cluster is 'Tapar'-- wooden bells for cattle made of wood from the 'madsingi' tree
Photoghraphs: Aparna Pallavi
Futane leans against the wall of his mud- house. The mud plaster is durable requiring repairs and cow-dung plastering once in four to five months
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Futane explains his experiment of building a house with a foundation made of stones fixed in mortar made mud. He added the concrete lintel as protection against termites
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A woman servant plasters the earthen floor of Futane's courtyard with cowdung. During construction, if sufficient quantities of lime are added to the mud floors, then cowdung plastering is required only once a fortnight
Photoghraphs: Aparna Pallavi
Chunkhadi, or lumps of lime occur naturally in the soil. These lumps when mixed with mud enhance the waterproofing and termite-resistance of the house built
