Traditional Kerala temples, with their sloping tiled roofs, demonstrate perfectly how to best handle torrential rain for four months. Homes in the upper reaches of cold, dry Ladakh, made of low-maintenance mud-plastered walls, the most abundant material available, the typical two-storied building houses cattle in the ground floor and its residents on the upper floor. The main living room: the kitchen, the warmest place in winter. Firewood stored on the roof also acts as insulation. Sense, sensibility and beauty. Unlike the epidemic of glass-walled hideousness now spreading through our metros.
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