Guwahati

Assam & the Northeast

The wettest places on Earth, plus floods and tremors.

Warm & humid

Everything here is light, woven, and up on legs. Bamboo ikra panels in timber frames shrug off tremors, stilts lift the floor above the flood, and steep thatch sheds the endless rain. The whole kit grows back in a few seasons.

Born here · 3 techniques

Ikra / Assam-typeBamboo-reed seismic wallAssam · Northeast India

A light timber frame with walls of reed (ikra) plastered in mud.

ResilienceWarm & humid

Chang gharStilt / raised house (flood)Assam & NE India · Malay · …

Lifting the living floor on posts keeps it above floodwater and lets cooling air pass underneath, flood resilience and ventilation together.

ResilienceWarm & humid

Steep roofSloping roof (rain & snow)Kerala · NE India · …

A steep pitch sheds heavy monsoon rain and snow load fast, protecting walls and structure; deep overhangs keep run-off off the façade.

ResilienceWarm & humidCold

Built from

Bamboo Timber Thatch & reed