FARM-HOUSE - Amjhira Farms

The Farmhouse is the second structure on the site of 70 acres with 15 acres of forest included in the site. Since the site is rich with natural resources, the entire house is designed with locally available materials and practiced techniques.

We also hired a water management team from renowned ‘Paani Foundation’ to tackle the current issues on site, like soil erosion and excessive water run off due to low contours in most of the site areas.

The Farmhouse is located at one acre of land, adjacent to the forest. Most of the major materials like stone and mud are harvested from the site itself. The use of Steel and cement is restricted to only plinth and roof beam level.

The local team of masons and helpers is being trained for the required skills. The Foundation and the plinth is constructed with the locally available stone and the walls to be built with the mud bricks are manufactured in-situ. Being a load bearing structure, the walls are 450 mm thick, hence the brick size was modified to 18”x9”x3”