4 Masters 8 Plasters
Registrations OPEN! This Program has been rescheduled to FEB 18-25 2023, due to lack of sufficient registrations for the month of December 2022. WHAT WILL YOU LEARN HANDS-ON? This year we had a master’s thesis student and three interns working full-time to update Vanamu’s research database with the findings from more than 250 secondary research […]
Tapial Avanzado – 1
Dónde registrarse? Google Formulario ¿Para quién? Aprendizaje para arquitectos de viviendas o aprendices constructores. El objetivo es capacitación intensivo en todo los aspectos de diseño, planeación y construction, de uso de tierra apisonada. Espacio solo para 20 personas Fotos de talleres anteriores Cuanto? Depende de lugar Que Incluye? El taller, todos materiales de construcción […]
Building with mud workshops – in Chattisgarh
Location: Livelihood College, Adawal Hot to get there: Take a train to Raipur and then a bus/ taxi to Adawal Date: 5th to 9th January 2018 Content: Vaults and Domes, Natural plasters We shall be building a brick dome with mud mortar, on a 3m x 3m room in 2 days. The vault will be […]
Taller Voluntario de Bóvedas – Escuela Telebachillerato comunitario, El botho, El botho Cardonal, Hidalgo – 4 & 5 Nov, 2017
En un pequeño pueblo llamado El Botho Cardonal, Hidalgo, vive un artesano llamado Jaime que todavía hace su cal con el método tradicional. Este 4 y 5 de Nov, aprenderemos de su proceso además de rehabilitar el techo de la escuela Telebachillerato comunitario, El botho (construction de una bóveda). _________________________________ Todo inicio por mi investigación […]
Jack Arches
Why Jack Arches? Jack arches, built of fired brick and bearing themselves on steel girders are no ecological option of building a roof. They surely consume more embodied energy than a typical RCC slab. If designed well, the steel / concrete beams that support these jack arches can work as composite structures where the brick […]
Mexican Dome Construction Timelapse
Mohammad Hadeez, an ex-student of Vanamu / Varun Thautam, and an indirect student of the Master dome builder Andres Flores of Mexico created this timelapse of mexican dome construction at his project site in Coimbatore. Hadeez worked with us for a year and half, where he showed interest to work on the construction of vaults […]
Natural Fences
Community Centre – Amealco
Macazaga A groundbreaking project executed with a team built out of the best hands collected over the past projects working with communities. From the workshops conducted in Mexico from the years 2015-2017, few of the participants stayed on to build more and to better their skills, to the extent that their skills were now more […]
Cabin for Casa Naomin
Cabin for Casa Naomin The objective of the project was to build a ultra lowultra- costlow-cost Cabin for Casa Naomin, a modest family run yoga school, located deep in the forests of Santa Rosa de lima, Guanajuato, Mexico. The design was to use the natural curves of human movement and use of space. Could a […]
Cuckoo School
Cuckoo School A local NGO, having close ties with the communities around the area. The school building was a need that was well thought out and communicated to us as a vision. With limited funds, a workshop was planned along with Made in Earth to channelize funds from participating architects and engineers. They were investing […]
Adi’s Residence
Adi’s residence, 2013 – Tiruttani, TN A 600 sft residence for a friend, built under a tight budget of 6.5 lakhs. Client resources were his connections with the community, as a result of his farm agricultural work for two years prior to the construction of his farmhouse. A small team of local helpers with little […]
Arasu
Arasu. Is a master craftsman who started working with lime 25 years ago. He mastered his craft restoration of 2 historic buildings in the Tharangambadi fort complex after the 2001 tsunami. He learnt the Chettinad egg plastering techniques from Mr Mookiaah Ananth an artisan common south indian plastering technique seen a similar plastering technique sin […]
Daoodji
Dawood Muwal, aka Dawoodji A 62 year old master artisan and a teacher from Sardarshahar, Rajasthan. He is one of the rarest of the last few traditional artisans of the age and experience who has transcended, while preserving the original art practiced by three generations before him. He has worked on the restoration of the […]