‘This Is What Keeps Our Sustainable Bengaluru Home Cool in Summers & Warm in Winters’

Originally reported and written in May 2022, this story has been republished as part of our archival content.  For Kumar BS and Deepika V, based out of Bengaluru and software engineers by profession, despite living in the metropolitan city where skyscrapers rise tall, a mud house held a different kind of fascination. Speaking to The Better India, Kumar says, “We were never interested in living in a contemporary house. We were always inspired by our ancestors’ home and decided to build our eco-friendly home with mud and stone.” A sustainable plot in a city of high rises   Once set on the ide...