Earth Building

Vernacular | Natural | Handmade

A natural building retreat by Earth Building studio in Ladhak among the Trans Himalayan mountains. Along with a group of Architects, Civil engineers and Natural life practitioners we built an outdoor kitchen using venacular methods like Aabode cobb, poured earth, wattle & daub and local natural materials like mud, straw, wood, stone and lime plaster.

Location: Stok, Ladhak

Team: 11 members

Year: 2022, 1 month

Area: 100sqft

Face Shield Delhi

Digital | Open source | Collective

During COVID-19 Face Shield Delhi manufactured and distributed 6000 shields to the front line workers with the help of volunteers to address the scarcity of PPEs across the country.

Location: New Delhi

Team: Ishita, Aranya

Volunteers: Manish, Shivani, Kalpana

Vendors Ankur, Sanjeev

Year: 2020, 8 months

Fabrication Infographics M19- Collective

FSD was part of the M19-Collective based on centralized open-source design philosophy with decentralized manufacturing. Inspired by the open source community globally FSD fabricated shields with OHP sheet, acrylic sheet, elastic and foam using a laser cutter at Rs 50/-. We also initiated a fundraiser on Ketto to raise funds for the shields and were able to raise 2.22L through various channels.

Paris, France

A 7 member team worked on the AEROBOT project by Noumena- a firm embracing data-driven design, investigating new-age digital paradigms and design strategies that can be applied to architecture, robotics and fabrication. The robot was used for digitized mapping of an agricultural field to make the process of mapping weeds, yield and soil variation efficient and automated