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A technical community

They see themselves more as architect-builders and mostly take up projects that they can realise from start to finish, thus ensuring the achievement of the desired quality in the building.

This approach developed over time, when they began facing opposition from the contractors and builders, who were used to building in the conventional methods. Hence, they decided to adopt an approach of undertaking even the contract work for the construction.

For being able to undertake all the aspects involved in executing the building, they believe in having a skilled and efficient team. Such a team need to be built with a lot of efforts, training and patience, over time. After 13 years of effort, they have now been able to organise a technical community, which includes architects and engineers, masons and technicians, artists and craftsmen.

They believe in teamwork and try to inculcate a family spirit in their team members. They express that in a conventional architectural practise the architect is completely isolated from the situation of the labourers. They strongly believe that a worker can produce good work only if he enjoys it and is completely involved in it. They see their role in bring out that joy of working in order to be able to realise more humane buildings. They see it as a reciprocal process where all of them grow up together by learning from each other.

They try wherever possible to fight gender discrimination, by giving women workers an equal opportunity as per their skills and work quality. They ensure that all their workers have an insurance policy as a safety precaution against mishaps on site, even though it marginally increases the building cost.