印度火土住宅 · 儿童希望之家

Architect：Anupama Kundoo Architects

Location：Tuttipakam, Pondicherry, India

Project Year：2008

Category：Social Housing

The residential cluster of homes was conceived to shelter children from challenged backgrounds as managed by the NGO Volontariat based in Pondicherry. Conceived as a fired-in-situ mud structure, the architect had been closely following the rare technology pioneered by ceramist Ray Meeker, which consisted of constructing mud houses and later firing them in-situ to convert them into ceramic structures. The onsite soil in the area was optimum for making fired bricks: in principle a structure built with mud bricks and mud mortar is stuffed with other ceramic products as if it were a kiln and fired for three to four days to achieve the strength of brick.

Typically kiln walls absorb about 40 per cent of the heat generated. In this technology, the house is the kiln, and the ‘heat loss’ is directed towards firing the house and stabilising it against potential water damage. This technology is labour-intensive with extraordinarily little need for ‘purchased’ materials. The money spent thus remains in the local economy. The house becomes a producer instead of a consumer of sustainable building materials.

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