Cost Efficient Architecture By LAUR.... - ArchiStud - where creativity takes shape - ashish batra's channel

•Baker showed, in fact, that sustainable technologies when adopted with care and creativity, could lead to a unique architectural expression, one that moved the expert and the layman alike.

•Baker ’s work is characterized by a fairly consistent system of design principles, building methods, and equally consistent but evolving set of ideas. Baker always treated factors like climate, the peculiarities of site, and the high consumption of scarce energy.

BAKER’S TRANDITIONAL MASTER CRAFTSMAN

His method of practice was the very opposite of the statutory model in India which followed the British system. He never maintained a regular office or a battalion of assistants, often sketched on waste paper, and designed largely on site. Unlike most practicing architects

He knew the trades well enough to train his workers himself and be open enough to learn from them at the same time. Every project was thus design-built with teams of craftsmen he had himself

Trained. This hands-on approach made it possible for him to pursue cost-effectiveness in design.

'THE HAMLET‘ LAURIE BAKER'S HOME-

The Play Of Shades And Shadows By Using BRICK JALLIS

the effective way to minimize your electricity bills.

Built In Furniture For House:

ENVIRONMENT CONCERN-

RECYCLED Wood from traditional demolished building.

All materials are used in their natural form, exposed brick work, mortar, concrete shows the truthfulness of materials and baker’s loves to material in their natural form.

Surface treatment By Using Waste Materials

QUALITY OF SPACES-

TRANDTIONAL APPROACH :-

Is a fan required to create air movement... Is a lamp needed to provide light?

Many people do not give such questions any thought. Fans and lamps can be avoided through appropriate planning.

•In india there is sunlight all round the year, which means that if water is stored in the southern part of the house, hot water can be made available.

•Garbage can be recycled.

Commercial-minded architects seldom give a thought to such things.

Only a person like baker has the courage for this, because his motive is not just to make money

In short, our effort should be to look for

technologies which are strong, durable,

. functional and yet aesthetic and more importantly, cost effective. That is, housing technologies which are acceptable and affordable to the people.

Is it possible?

AND LAURIE BAKER PROVED-

The answer is a strong YES.