As part of our coverage on sustainable architecture, we’ve highlighted some ingenious innovations that pepper India’s landscape. Continuing that saga, here are constructions that are pushing the boundaries of ‘sustainable beauty’, placing materials like mud, bamboo, and lime on the same playing field as their conventionally used counterparts. Here’s how India is engineering an eco-friendly aesthetic. 

Local wisdom and a progressive architectural mindset convene in this project undertaken by architectural firm STUDIOARO. The project, the entry gate of the Donyi Polo airport, blends locally sourced bamboo and cane into a form resembling the state bird, the ‘vulnerable’ great hornbill. 

The project is an ode to the tribes of Arunachal Pradesh — reverence for the bird is stitched into the culture, while bamboo forms an indigenous construction material for most constructions........

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