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The Living Ground | Anushka Zanpure 44 

My concept started with observing how people and the land seem to move together on my site. In the marshy land, locals cultivate vegetables only along one edge where the soil is dense and moist, while the other side remains open for walking and daily movement. This rhythm between growth and passage became the driving force behind my concept, to imagine a shelter that behaves like the land itself, rising gently from it yet continuing its living surface above. Rather than standing apart, it grows with the ground, allowing people to plant on its roof while finding shade, comfort, and storage beneath.

 Constructed using the earthbag technique, the shelter is literally made from the site’s own soil strong, breathable, and responsive to the local climate. The marshland that absorbs and releases water, the shelter too breathes with its surroundings, blurring the boundary between architecture and landscape living ground that sustains both people and nature in a shared rhythm of growth and movement.

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