Income Generating Habitat for the Climate Refugees of Ethnic Culture

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The project acknowledges the conflict between ethnic vernacular housing practice and the stereotype of rural housing, excluding socio-cultural aspects related to the Santali tradition and belief system. The master plan is divided into four scales: adobe, cluster, community, and territory, which are to be built with the local materials: mud, bamboo, brick in the foundation, linseed oil, and rope buttress to strengthen the mud plaster. A local belief is that expansive windows allow a negative omen, so a mud panel with patterns derived from the Alpona for spiritual worship is used instead. There is design flexibility for further extension with lightweight enclosures. This design proposal adds minimum interventions to avoid the juxtaposition of different elements and keep the prominent ethnic features dominant.