Anangpur Building Centre

Anil Laul's demonstration campus at Anangpur, Faridabad, India (founded 1991), teaching cost-effective and earthquake-resistant building.

Core Features

• Working campus for cost-effective, sustainable materials and earthquake engineering, not a single monument.
• Hands-on workshops built with interlocking blocks, stabilized mud and other low-cost systems.
• Several of its projects are listed as UNCHS Good Practices; its block system built Nalanda International School, Vadodara.

Architectural Connections

• Rammed Earth Construction: the earth-building tradition it taught.
• Educational: a school of building by building.
• Indian: Haryana's low-cost housing movement.

Related Elements & Sites

Mud (material), Mud Brick (material), Modular Construction (technique)