Marma House

Marma House

Figure 1: Marma eco-friendly house

 Marma traditional house is unique and simple. It does not cost large amount of money. It is just made of bamboo, sun grass and timber yet beautiful. It is very natural and eco-friendly. Their houses fit with their ways of life as they live with the nature in the hills. 

The unique thing about their houses is they build their houses joining with veranda above the ground where the whole house is supported by pillars below. Some houses are founded on the ground and veranda is above the ground in parallel. As the houses are above the ground so they need ladders to climb up the houses and ladders are sometimes made of timber woods, bamboos, or big logs cut with stairs. The reasons behind this kind structure are to avoid water and drying crops on the veranda to avoid from hens and other animals. 
 

Figure 2: Marma calls it Mran inn (Above house)

For the cover of the roof, they use bamboos and over bamboos tied with forest long grasses after they had cut and dried under the sun. The four walls were attached with weaving bamboos. The type of walls is just like weaving of cloth where the bamboos are trashed and flattened for weaving. The floors are made of timber woods and sometimes with sewed bamboos.

Finally a Marma house is done. Isn’t it easy and simple?