
RA Dorfman Award winner Wallmakers
Based in India, Wallmakers was founded by Vinu Daniel in 2007. Over the past 15 years, they have engaged with sustainability in architecture.
The jury was impressed by Vinu’s willingness to improvise and take the risky route of exploring unprecedented interventions, as much as his insistence treading lightly on the planet.
Farshid Moussavi RA, Chair of the 2022 Jury

Trivandrum, India (2018)
Meet Wallmakers
Vinu Daniel founded the architecture firm Wallmakers in 2007. Over the past 15 years, they have engaged with sustainability in architecture in a variety of ways, from building with mud blocks to using urban waste as a material to reduce the embodied energy in construction. They are an office-less firm that is constantly on the move, looking for ways to make construction more sustainable. One of their most known projects is the IHA Residence in Trivandrum, where the use of base plates of washing machines as scrap grills is a prime example of their take on up-cycling. Other projects such as St. George Orthodox Church in Mattancherry or Pirouette House in Trivandrum showcase their use of Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks (CSEB) and how it can create an original work of contemporary architecture, maintaining a balance between innovative and utilitarian design.
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Peeremedu, India (2021)
Peeremedu, India (2021)
Trivandrum, India (2020)
Pala, India (2018)
Pala, India (2018)
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