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Debris Wall Studio

A design studio whose street wall is built entirely from the debris of the building that stood there before it.

CompletedYear2023PlaceMalappuram, KeralaSectorCommercial

Reference image, not a CHAYP project. Site photography in progress.

The project, in our own words

When the existing structure came down, its brick and concrete became the raw material for the new one. The debris wall gives the studio deep thermal mass and a façade that is, quite literally, the memory of the old building.

Inside, lime plasters and an oxide floor keep the air healthy and the acoustics soft - a workplace finished entirely without cement paint or synthetic coatings.

What it changes

Most of the site's debris

Demolition waste reused

Indicative design-stage estimate - sample project for preview

Lime & oxide, zero synthetic paint

Finishes

Indicative design-stage estimate - sample project for preview

How it looks, and what it is made of

a few frames

Real site photography will replace these. For now, each frame is a warm reference of the materials and the land this project grows from, never passed off as the building itself.

A warm, daylit room (Reference image, not a CHAYP project)
The land this project grows from, as we found it.
A potter's clay-stained hands at the wheel (Reference image, not a CHAYP project)
Monsoon rain on green leaves (Reference image, not a CHAYP project)
Earth-block buildings settled into a hillside (Reference image, not a CHAYP project)
If this feels like yours

rooted like this

Tell us about your land and the life you picture on it. We start where every project starts, with the ground itself.