The house is a repository of sustainable building practices and materials, and all its various parts are tied together visually and structurally by an upper beam that also serves to make the home earthquake-resistant.
The earthquake that jolted Kangra region on April 4, 1905, came with a preliminary tremor followed by three distinct shocks. The epicentre in Kullu was at Larji, but the loss of human life here nowhere reached the same proportion as in Kangra, “a fact which was due to the better style of house