Local material is not nostalgia. It is a practical answer to cost, climate and the availability of people who know how to work it.
A mason who has cut laterite for twenty years will do more for a wall than a specification ever will.
Ageing well
Stone and lime plaster look better after ten monsoons. Most imported cladding does not.
We prefer surfaces that are allowed to weather, and details that assume they will.
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