In this new series titled Sustainable Home, we will take you through a series of videos on how to build a sustainable home. At Aanandaa, we are building an innovative and creative home, which is as sustainable as possible. We have explored several construction technologies and designs to ensure we have the most natural, resilient and energy efficient home.
In this episode, Manisha takes you Gabion Wall building. Typically used for making retaining walls in the hills and eroded areas, this age old technique can also be used to manage stone waste on the property, and build a nice garden feature. Almost every area will have this local craftsmanship accessible.
We used the Gabion to make the wall leading up to our entrance. The best part was that we could consume almost all our stone waste, big & small, in this wall. And the wall makes for a great structure for a creeper to climb up. We have put the Blue Pea flower, or Aparajita on one of the walls, and see how nice it looks!
Sustainable architecture at Aanandaa is directed by Ar. Jitesh Malik from Studio Aureole. The integral design practice at their studio combines a commitment to environmental sensitivity with a contemporary design language and a pedagogical process. At Aanandaa, Jitesh creatively contextualised a diverse range of sustainable practices to collaboratively work towards an aesthetically enriching experience.
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Good information, really u r amazing ❤
Great video. Aparajitha is just blooming. Here in Konkan region of Maharashtra, we do it without mesh. Stones used are mostly laterite stone and wall is mainly used for fencing the land. For binding, we put dry soil over the stone. In rainy season soils gets wet and it sticks together. Sometimes walls build without soil as well. Laterite stone is not that flat and it has edges so stones get interlocked.
Manisha ji following ur farm videos since long time, u hv really constructed a beautiful house,nice way of using these stones
i think i am gonna do this
Pretty anyway, but in a sari you are gorgeous
Hindi language please.
House tour and farm tour plz
Did they use a through brace on the wire frame? It looks like they built a competent drystone wall and then rolled a chain link fence over the completed wall, with no structural/retaining braces connecting the wire frame through the stone wall🤷🏽
Eagerly waiting for house tour, please please please please
U have such an amazing and positive aura
I truly enjoyed and learned something which I have seen many times and at many places but never realized the importance of. I truly loved Aparajita climbing on the Gabion wall. Thanks, Manisha for making and sharing this video.
Manisha, could you please let us know if they joined both sides of the wire mesh internally using wire inside the wall.
Boht aala. Boht khuob 👌(No proper alternative of these words in English) 😊
Awesome project mam.. Truly amazing….
Beautiful project in how it reuses “waste”, its final construction, and how it makes a home for climbing plants
I want to visit your place once.