Earth Institute - A centre for Innovation of Terracotta and Earth Building Craft Part 2 Project 2019 Uttara Ubhayaratne City School of Architecture | Sri Lanka Earth Institute is a facility which includes an institute and a prototype product design unit concentrating in the research, development, promotion and transfer of earth and terracotta base building expertise, among the most cost effective, low carbon, low embodied energy solutions for sustainable development. While Earth Institute builds excellence in earthen architecture, it will encourage and propagate knowledge in the construction of sustainable habitats. As it evocates and act as the Resource Centre for Sri Lanka of the UNESCO Chair “Earthen Architecture, Constructive Cultures and Sustainable Development”, earth institute aims to empower local investors through an international network of experts. The work of the Earth Institute has attempted to revive traditional skills and to link vernacular traditions of raw earth and terracotta construction with modern technologies Tutor(s) Dimantha Weliange