Earth And Adobe

Written in response to an increasing worldwide interest in building with earth, this handbook deals with earth as a building material, and provides a survey of all of its applications and construction techniques, including the relevant physical data, while explaining its specific qualities and the possibilities of optimising them.

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This paper is directed to those who wish to become informed on the uses of earth and to perhaps investigate its possibilities under conditions with which they are intimately concerned.

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This thesis explores the structural behaviour of earthbag housing under vertical compressive loading, in an attempt to broaden our quantitative understanding of this alternative building technique. Furthermore, this technique is assessed, along with other alternative construction techniques, for suitability in southern Sri Lanka, an area heavily damaged by the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami.

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This paper is an attempt to assess the use of adobe as a modern building technology from the appropriate technology perspective. Therefore, it brings together discussion of the defining characteristics of appropriate technologies, social impact assessment of technology, and examines the use of adobe in light of the nation's energy/resource crisis and the increasing cost of housing.

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This book explores the use of soil-cement as a construction material, covering its properties, preparation methods, and applications.

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Third World housing may be the world’s most unsolvable problem. This briefing document introduces the problems of Third World housing, examines the relative inability of accepted policies to solve them, reviews mud and other earth-based building materials in comparison with cement, bricks and other “modern” materials, examines the utility of mud-based materials in a score of countries in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Europe.

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Earthships are designed to make a family feel as independent and free as if they were on a long voyage, only in this case the ship is their home, their voyage is on Earth and their goal is to live equably with their environment. This publication features an actual earthship that has lived for five years as of writing.

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The Greater World Earthship Community is located 12 miles northwest of the town of Taos, New Mexico on highway 64, 1.5 miles past the Rio Grande Gorge Bridge. The community is an experimental subdivision designed to create an ideal condition from which a sustainable community can grow and flourish.

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This presentation features an Experimental Subdivision in Taos, New Mexico called the Greater World Earthship Community. It was developed by Michael Reynolds.

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This is a technical manual which seeks to bring together in one volume significant information from various sources bearing on small scale adobe production.

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