Madhuca houses, Auroville, South India A community of individual houses, Madhuca started with the aim of putting to use alternative construction techniques, energy systems and waste water management. Building materials having minimal ecological impact have been used.

Its an earth block foundations and walls, stone slab flat roofs, exfoliated vermiculite insulation, recycled old wood, granite as load bearing elements, waste water recycling.

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