Besharp

Sustainable Built Environment
Build Simply A film on the approach to ‘built environment’ adopted by Timbaktu Produced by Centre for Education and Documentation Duration 37 minutes [English] The film explores Timbaktu’s experiment, which sat a meeting point between forests, agriculture and the built environment. It narrates how a small group of development activists, committed to developmental and ecological regeneration, found ways to heal and regenerate a piece of dry, degraded land, and create an agro forest habitat. Protecting the land, revitalising natural resources and traditional genetic base were the key elements involved.
The film focuses on how different locally available materials were used in building houses - mud, stone, lime slurry, bamboo and some cement. It also captures how the roofing - done using locally grown Boda grass - has evolved as a complex system for thatching over the years. Mary Vattamattam reflects on the need for linking their experiment with the development of the indigenous people. Bablu Ganguly talks about his "dharma" to protect this land, which he believes is magical and has in turn protected and nourished the people living here.
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Other films and multi-media materials, raising awareness among partners, network and anyone interested on the subject matter Films on Sustainable Built Environment Landscape for Rainwater Vernacular Values A Farm Garden in a dryland of Tamil Nadu City Farming

LANDSCAPE FOR RAINWATER

VERNACULAR VALUES

Duration 26' - Produced by Anouchka Kine and A&D

A huge and beautiful archaeological site in Hampi, Karnataka, shows aspects of Indian cities in late 15th early 16th centuries, It shows ruins of tanks, water channels and aqueduct show how Indian people succeeded in using a passive and complex system so that rainwater was sufficient for all their water needs.

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Duration 58'18" - Produced by CED

Threading the cross section journeys into the other paradigm in architecture and examines the values and underlying commonsense of the vernacular in shaping our built environment. In this film the philosopher in R L Kumar, a trained accountant reflects on his attempts to build houses differently with a passion for the earth and the people he is working with. This exploration has made kumar an architect, builder, comrade to his workers and philosopher to some of his NGO friends and chief haranguer to others.

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A FARM GARDEN IN A DRYLAND
OF TAMIL NADU

CITY FARMING

Duration 8'30" - Produced by Anouchka Kine and A&D

A landscape architect, Mohan S. Rao, explains using the example of a farm garden how to conserve and reuse rainwater as much as possible with sensitive and sustainable methods. The basic principles of this kind of work are explained in a simple way and in a quiet rhythm.

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Duration 16'47" - Produced by CED

Nature is vanishing at a very fast pace from cities. This film captures this process of Dr. R.T. Doshi science of city farming.

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Project Partners



Architecture & Development	Politecnico Torino	La Cambre Architecture	INHAF	Centre for Education & Documentation	Academy of Architecture

Build Simply

A film on the approach to ‘built environment’ adopted by Timbaktu

Produced by Centre for Education and Documentation