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Casa Munita Gonzalez
Sunday, June 30. 2013
Photo © Luis García
The Casa Munita Gonzalez by Arias Arquitectos and Surtierra Arquitectura is 275 sqm privateresidence built in Batuco, Santiago, Chile. The house is built using TerraPanel to assure thethermal efficiency of the housing, which is constituted of panels of welded wire mesh filled of
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EARTH ARCHITECTURE — THE BOOK
The groundbreaking survey Earth Architecture is available in apaperback edition or in the original hardcover edition . BuyEarth Architecture if you live in the following countries::
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Casa em Arruda Dos Vinhos
light earth that is supported by a main structure composed of beams and steel pillars.
Read more about the house at ArchDaily.com
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Sunday, November 16. 2008
Architects PlanoB from Lisbon, Portugal have completed an innovative house called A Casa emArruda Dos Vinhos that employs a hybrid earthen wall system that combines elements of rammedearth, cob and wattle and daub similar to the encajonado method used in the historic BrionesHouse in California.
SynopsisCurrently it is estimated that one half of the world's population—approximately three billion people on six continents—lives orworks in buildings constructed of earth. And while the vast legacyof traditional and vernacular earthen construction has been widelydiscussed, little attention has been paid to the contemporarytradition of earth architecture. Author Ronald Rael, founder ofEartharchitecture.org provides a history of building with earth inthe modern era, focusing particularly on projects constructed inthe last few decades that use rammed earth, mud brick,compressed earth, cob, and several other interesting techniques.EARTH ARCHITECTURE presents a selection of more than 40projects that exemplify new, creative uses of the oldest buildingmaterial on the planet.
An engaging narrative addresses the misconceptions associatedwith earth architecture. Many assume that it's only used forhousing in poor rural areas—but there are examples of airports,embassies, hospitals, museums, and factories that are made ofearth. It's also assumed that earth is a fragile, ephemeralmaterial, while in reality some of the oldest extant buildings onthe planet are made of earth. The book also touches on manytopics that pervade both architecture and popular media today,such as the ecological benefits and the politics of building withearth, particularly in developing nations where earth buildings areoften thought of as premodern or backward. With captivatingdiscussion and more than 300 images, Earth Architectureshowcases the beauty and simplicity of one of humankind's mostevolved and sophisticated building technologies.
ISBN 9781568987675 8.5 x 9 inches (21.6 x 22.9 cm), Hardcover,208 pages 222 color illustrations; 96 b/w illustrations; A PAPresspublication.
About the AuthorRonald Rael is an Architect, Author and Assistant Professor ofArchitecture at The University of California, Berkeley. He is thefounder of EarthArchitecture.org, a clearing house of informationon the subject.
EARTH ARCHITECTURE — THE WEBSITE Dirt—as in clay, gravel, sand, silt, soil, loam, mud—iseverywhere. The ground we walk on and grow crops in also justhappens to be the most widely used building material on the
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planet. Civilizations throughout time have used it to createstable, warm, lowimpact structures. The world's first skyscraperswere built of mud brick. Paul Revere, Saddam Hussein, ChairmanMao, and Ronald Reagan all lived in earth houses at variouspoints in their lives, and several of the buildings housing DonaldJudd's priceless collection in Marfa, Texas, are made of mudbrick. The Earth Architecture website focuses on architectureconstructed of mud brick (adobe), rammed earth (pisé), cob,compressed earth block or other methods of earthen constructionand serves as a database for the discussion and dissemination ofevents, resources, and images of earth architecture in the contextof contemporary architecture culture.
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1. Material Technologies* Cob* Compressed Earth Block* Mud Brick* Rammed Earth* Wattle and Daub2. Resources Books on Earth Architecture Earth Architecture Events Organizations Technology Web ResourcesAfricaBurkina FasoMali
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Tebogo Home for Handicapped Children
The project is a reconstruction of an existing ruin and the site is inside and environmentalprotection area. This forced the architects to maintain the position, hieght and use (storage) ofthe previous building and they proposed to rebuild the house using the previous materials—wood,stone and earth—but in a different way.
Extensive construction documentation of the house can be found on the Casa em Arruda DosVinhos construction website.
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El Faro: The Citizens’ Initiative Pavilion
Orange Farm is a township in the southwest of Johannesburg. The social situation is characterisedby poverty, AIDS and unemployment. The appearance of the development is dominated largelyby buildings or shacks made mostly of sheet metal, corrugated iron or parts of cars. In summer itcan become unbearably hot in these shacks (up to 45°C), while during winter nights it can benoticeably cold (to 2°C).
BASE habitat was commissioned by the Tebogo Home for Handicapped Children. The AustrianNGO SARCH set up this contact for us. The home for almost 50 children had become too small. Ina group of 25 students we planned and built a dining building with a new kitchen, and a therapybuilding with sanitary facilities. A generously dimensioned pergola, a garden hall, connects thebuildings with each other. The buildings we erected in Tebogo have a pleasant indoor climatethroughout the year – without the use of energy. In this way we were able to reduce thefluctuation in temperature to only 9°C. Local workers, above all women, were integrated in theproject. The building materials were acquired directly from the township: concrete blocks, earth,clay, straw, timber, grass mats – to strengthen the local economy and to make later repetitioneasier. One of the main aims was to make buildings that suited the needs of the children. Theyreceived a home that conveyed a sense of security and joy in living.
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Monday, June 23. 2008
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Photo credit
The architectural project of the Citizens’ Initiative Pavilion building is the work of the architectRicardo Higueras for the Zaragoza Expo 2008.
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Bousillage Construction
The pavilion building will be based on energy efficiency, recycling and sustainability. Both thebuilding’s shape and its use are based on the traditional ceramic pitcher. The materials used arenatural and come straight from the earth: straw, wood, and clay. Prefabricated clayplasteredpanels were attached to a superstructure to enclose the pavillion. More photos in the photogallery. [ Previously ]
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The Gaudet House c. 1830, Lutcher, Louisiana
Bousillage, or bouzillage, a hybrid mud brick/cob/wattle and daub technique is a mixture of clayand Spanish moss or clay and grass that is used as a plaster to fill the spaces between structuralframing and particularly found in French Vernacular architecture of Louisiana of the early 1700s. Aseries of wood bars (barreaux), set between the posts, helped to hold the plaster in place.Bousillage, molded into bricks, was also used as infilling between posts; then called briquetteentrepoteaux. The bousillage formed a solid mud wall that was plastered and then painted. Thebousillage also formed a very effective insulation.
French Acadienne house in Lyon, France
The tradition was brought to New Orleans from France by the Acadienne (Cajun). The techniquealso has Naive American influences. This paper describes how "When the French built in Louisiana,their earliest houses (maison) were of this frame structure, but with the post in the ground(poteaux en terre). Sometimes the post were placed close together palisade fashion (cabane).This was a technique used by local Indians. The Indians infilled the cracks between the posts witha mixture of mud and retted Spanish moss. The French did likewise and called this mixture"bousillage". The first framed structures were covered with horizontal cypress boards (madriers).The roof (couverture) frame was finished with cypress bark, shakes, boards, or palmetto thatch.All of these earliest structures had dirt floors and were usually only one room deep and two roomswide separated by a fireplace."
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