Banni Housing

reflecting on primitive building practices

Abundant construction and building practices of today, extend from the architects output to the contractors process to the labors work. But these process vary from people to people and region to region.

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Before the common practice of plans and sections a region called Banni, in gujarat followed the practice of measuring the outside courtyard space, and then using the leftover space for the inside. Their round circular shaped houses have thatched roof, to protect from the heat. these mud houses are decorated with mirrors and warli painting. tools used to construct these houses were simply based on pivoting a thread at the centre and running the other end of thread in a circle. Then above this circular shape mud walls are built. 

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people only used these houses to rest. The courtyard was the crux of these settlements, where most of the activities happened. they viewed their houses just as a shelter.