A Glimpse through the 3-Day Mud Building Block Workshop

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Agastya academy

• Presents..

A Glimpse through the 3-Day Mud Building Block
Workshop
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Soil Exploration

• Ms. Meenakshi tasked students with drawing rough
  drafts of their houses.
• Using unconventional units like handspan, cubit,
  foot span, and fingers.
• Next, students were split into groups, and went
  to three different locations around the campus,
  digging 1-foot pits.
• Each team collected bottom and top layer soil
  from the pits, meticulously labelling them as
  instructed.

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Soil Exploration

• Ms. Meenakshi mam asked students to place about
  5cm of soil into 10cm jars, filling them with
  water.
• After shaking the mixture, they left them
  undisturbed.
• The next task involved feeling each type of soil
  to separate the best one for building purposes.

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Art of mud balls

• Students engaged in creating mud balls with each
  type of soil, allowing them to dry.
• Towards the end of the day, we experimented with
  preparing balls using bottom soils from different
  pits in various proportions, labelling them, and
  setting them aside for sun drying.

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Soil layers

1. Gravel,
2. Coarse sand,
3. Fine sand,
4. Silt,
5. Clay,
6. humus.

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Thank You

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