Cob bench using Banana leaves & Bamboo - A flat mud roof method 

Designed by Natural Building Architect Biju Bhaskar
Cob Bench made using Bamboo, Banana Leaves and Mud. This is a very common technique of using Wood (or Bamboo), Leaves (Banana, Teak, Aak) and Mud to do a Flat Mud Roof. This bench has storage space and uses less mud for construction.
It can be even used for building multiple floors! Examples can be seen from Kaza in Spiti Valley to parts of Rajasthan to Multi floor houses in North Kerala. They use locally available wood and leaves. Keeping termite resistant leaves is a common practice to give additional protection to the wooden members.
Go through the below links for various examples.
Further Reading:
1. Building an earthen roof over a cob home using Karingota leaves: thannal.com/building-an-earthe...
2. Traditional Flat earthen roof using Eeta leaves:
thannal.com/flat-earthen-roof-...
3. Alchemy in Architecture: thannal.com/alchemy-in-archite...
4. Flat Mud Roofs Rajasthan : bit.ly/2PrywCV
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5. Flat roof at Thannal Campus: bit.ly/2Du0adp bit.ly/2VnHS7T
6. Learn Thappi Plaster: thannal.com/thappi-lohi-araish...
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