Www.rivendellvillage.org/Building_With_Earth_A_Guide_To_Flexible-Form_Earthbag_Construction.pdf. Clifton’s Rammed Earth Blog » Blog Archive » Amphitheatre walls @ UBC – Building Wall 2. We are now onto building the second rammed earth wall in the UBC botanical garden.
This wall is 55 feet long, curved and fades into the grade. Thanks to Katie who works at the garden for providing a few of the pictures scattered through our posts on the amphitheatre. The footing for wall 2 is ready. The round circle to the right is where the fountain will be going. Putting up the walers. IDEAS FOR SCHOOL EQUIPMENT AND FURNITURE. Unique Bamboo Living Pod Concept is a Study in Disaster Proof Design DAtE Green Design Award - Gallery Page 1.
Inventaire detaillé. Www.greenhomebuilding.com/pdf/buildingstandards_bamboo.pdf. Files/DLYGAD2_ipad_sm.pdf. Domes and Dome Houses. Now you can build your own energy efficient, disaster resistant dome home! Dome-shaped houses tend to look either really good or really bad.
Most dome homes are constructed with a single, large dome, which is then divided into many different rooms inside. That makes the most optimal use of the materials, encompassing the most square feet for the least amount of materials. If I were to build a dome house, however, I like the idea of creating a dome for each room, as shown in this model I built using balloons and paper mache. I believe that this style of dome home could be quite economical if the domes were mass-produced out of lightweight insulation, such as papercrete or expanded polystyrene (preferably recycled), then hauled into place, connected, and stuccoed over with cement, as proposed in my book, Living Homes: Stone Masonry, Log, and Strawbale Construction.
Perhaps one day... Dome Construction Methods Dome Living A Creative Guide For Planning Your Monolithic Dream Home by David B. The title says it all! Nidm.gov.in/PDF/safety/flood/link2.pdf. Estudio Damgo. Bamboo Pavilion for the Expo Shanghai. Project description Though quite modest in scale, the German-Chinese pavilion erected for the Expo 2010 Shanghai attracts attention by virtue of the materials used and its transparent structure.
The bamboo canes, for example, are giant stems up to 23 cm in diameter with stainless-steel node fittings concreted into the ends. The spatial enclosure is formed by a screen supported by a bamboo-veneered steel SHS structure, while the internal platform is borne by specially developed beams in laminated bamboo. Together with the bamboo parquet and furniture, these elements demonstrate the versatility of this renewable raw material. Project details. Www.col.ops-oms.org/desastres/docs/bahareque/MANUAL BAHAREQUE.pdf. Www.buildchange.org/pdfs/Build Change_Philippines Reconnaissance Report.pdf. The Big Idea - Safe Houses. The Big Idea Art: Bryan Christie.
Sources: Gernot Minke, University of Kassel; Elizabeth A. Hausler, Build Change; Anna Lang, University of California, San Diego; Marcial Blondet and Alvaro Rubinos, Catholic University of Peru; Pierre Paul Fouche, University at Buffalo; USGS Safe Houses The earthquake in Haiti was a reminder: Billions of people live in houses that can't stand shaking. In Los Angeles, Tokyo, and other rich cities in fault zones, the added expense of making buildings earthquake resistant has become a fact of life. Www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/eng/eso/modules/year1/es181/2_materials.pdf. How can rural villages manage mountains of empty plastic bottles? What can rural communities in Guyana do to handle mounds of plastic bottles in their trash?
"Plastic waste is a huge problem for Guyana," Scott Stadum, vice president of Friends and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Guyana (FROG), told E4C. "People throw trash into the sewer, thinking that it will disappear somewhere. In 2005, there was major flooding along the coast, and part of the problem was that these drainage systems were so clogged with waste that water couldn't get back into the ocean from the canals. And this, of course, causes all sorts of health-related problems. " Stadum posed the bottle question on behalf of the Karanambu Trust, which conserves Guyana's Rupununi wetlands and the otters that live there. Building Design and Construction handbook free download ~ Engineering Free Downloads.
Www.mtnforum.org/sites/default/files/publication/files/affordable_earthequake-resistant.pdf. 8 features of a typhoon-resistant house. LEARNING FROM TRADITION.
Traditional Ivatan houses in Batanes feature storm shutters protecting windows and doors from winds. Photo by Pia Ranada/Rappler MANILA, Philippines – More than 360,000 houses in Eastern Visayas were totally destroyed by Super Typhoon Yolanda, highlighting the importance of typhoon-resistant architecture. On Wednesday, November 20, prominent Filipino architects announced that their organization is surveying the affected areas to come up with appropriate designs for new homes.
They are doing the designs for free, in coordination with the National Housing Authority and the Department of Public Works and Highways. They also discussed features of a typhoon-ready house. 1. Willy Coscolluela, the architect behind the acclaimed Zuellig Building in Makati and SM Aura in Taguig, takes inspiration from a housing project in Guam which survived a storm and convinced stubborn locals to move in.
Technical Resources. It's not the earthquakes that kills people, it's the collapse of buildings due to poor design and construction.
Click to access a suite of useful technical resources developed by the engineers at Build Change, specific to the needs, cultural considerations, and available materials for each country: China | Haiti | Indonesia | Philippines Click to access reconnaissance reports developed in post-earthquake areas: Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance Reports Housing Primer on Post Disaster Reconstruction Published The Build Change USAID-approved housing primer is available here. Build Change Handbook "Security Rebuild Manual" Includes common construction problems and how to solve them. Available in English (EN) and Mandarin Chinese (MA):