Wallmakers

All our earlier settlements have always been made of natural materials. But the sad fact is that today less than thirty percent of the world’s population live in buildings made of earth, even though it is a more sustainable and durable material; the blame of which may be solely placed on the advent of industrialization and widespread demand for "cement” houses'. We, at Wallmakers have devoted ourselves to the cause of using mud and waste as the chief components, to make structures that are both, utilitarian and alluring. On returning from Pondicherry in 2007 he started 'Wallmakers' which was christened thus by others, as the first project was just a compound wall. Many eye-openers in the course of his practice prompted him to resolve to devote his energies to the cause of sustainable and cost-effective architecture. Amidst the current Global climate crisis, it becomes all the more important to question the direction in which we humans, as a race, are headed. In the place of questions like "What should we build?", queries like "Should we build?" should become more relevant. And in facing the inevitable situation where we must build, the need to use materials that have already become an environmental hazard in place of fresh material has become the need of the hour. We believe in understanding and using materials easily available from a site or in a building with waste, which led us to research and develop techniques such as the Debris Wall and the Shuttered Debris Wall. At Wallmakers, the aim is to build sustainable spaces that are responsive to specific site contexts and conditions, while maintaining a balance between innovative, utilitarian designs and creating contextual dream-like spaces.