Earth Construction
Additives to Clay: Minerals and Synthetic Additives
Earth has been used for building for thousands of years. Good quality durable earth buildings can be built to suit local conditions and structural requirements.
Otto Ruskulis for Practical Action, 2008, 6 pages
Earth has been used for building for thousands of years. Good quality durable earth buildings can be built to suit local conditions and structural requirements.
Otto Ruskulis for Practical Action, 2008, 6 pages
Additives to Clay: Organic Additives
Earth has been used for building for thousands of years throughout the world, and is a multi-component system usually consisting of stones, sand, silt, clay and water.
Otto Ruskulis for Practical Action, updated 2008, 6 pages
Earth has been used for building for thousands of years throughout the world, and is a multi-component system usually consisting of stones, sand, silt, clay and water.
Otto Ruskulis for Practical Action, updated 2008, 6 pages
Earthen Vaults and Domes
Video: The art of making vaults and domes from earth. From the BASIN series on sustainable building.
GTZ for BASIN (Building Advisory Service & Information Network), 1994, 26 minutes 45 seconds
Making Stabilised Soil Blocks
Deals with the two main problems that can arise with earth buildings: stabilisation and compaction.
Practical Action Southern Africa, 2007, 14 pages
Deals with the two main problems that can arise with earth buildings: stabilisation and compaction.
Practical Action Southern Africa, 2007, 14 pages
Mud as a Mortar
Clay is the inherent binder of soils which are used in building. Such mortars are generally used with adobe and compressed soil block or, sometimes, fired clay brick and soft stone construction.
Last updated by Otto Ruskulis, 2009, 6
Mud Plasters and Renders
Mud plasters are used for houses built from mud but can also be used for buildings of stone and fired brick.
Otto Ruskulis for the Appropriate Technology Magazine, last updated March 2009, 6 pages.
The Construction of the Timberless House Model
A step by step guide to constructing domed timberless buildings with photographs and techncial drawings.
Yousef Hasan Adarn & Ali Alzubair, Feb 2009, 34 pages.
A step by step guide to constructing domed timberless buildings with photographs and techncial drawings.
Yousef Hasan Adarn & Ali Alzubair, Feb 2009, 34 pages.
Walls: Stabilised In-Situ Formed Walling
This Techncial Brief describes some of the practical considerations when building walls with stabilsed soil.
Practical Action South Asia, Feb 2007, 4 pages
This Techncial Brief describes some of the practical considerations when building walls with stabilsed soil.
Practical Action South Asia, Feb 2007, 4 pages
Walls: Using Interlocking Stabilised Soil Blocks
This approach is a low cost alternative to hollow concrete blcoks and fired bricks.
Written for Practical Action South Asia, 9 pages.
This approach is a low cost alternative to hollow concrete blcoks and fired bricks.
Written for Practical Action South Asia, 9 pages.
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