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African Architecture and Design: Malawian Vernacular Architecture

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African Architecture and Design. A Hub for African Architecture, Design and Eco-friendly Development projects. Monday, January 26, 2015. Jon Twingi has created a detailed repository of Malawian vernacular Architecture. And has published them on his Website. His highly detailed work which includes, technical information about local building materials, videos, photos. And an Iphone app will help preserve Malawian and African Vernacular Architecture. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Mexico City Photo Blog.

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African Architecture and Design: January 2015

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African Architecture and Design. A Hub for African Architecture, Design and Eco-friendly Development projects. Monday, January 26, 2015. Jon Twingi has created a detailed repository of Malawian vernacular Architecture. And has published them on his Website. His highly detailed work which includes, technical information about local building materials, videos, photos. And an Iphone app will help preserve Malawian and African Vernacular Architecture. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). African Cities I Photo Blog.

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Alt. Build Blog: Installing Large Size Sun Room Windows

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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, February 10, 2014. Installing Large Size Sun Room Windows. After having built and lived in quite a few passive solar sun rooms over the last 40 years. I have come up with a good way to set the large double glazed glass units. That are commonly used for such rooms. About a year and a half ago we purchased a passive solar heated adobe fixer upper. And to do this we needed to cut out p...

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Alt. Build Blog: Tips On Building Dry Stack Stone Walls #7: More On Steps

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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, March 31, 2014. Tips On Building Dry Stack Stone Walls #7: More On Steps. In the last post we looked at a set of steps with three treads:. Tips On Building A Dry Stack Stone Wall #6: Steps. And this time let's look at a longer set of steps. Please refer to the previous post as some of the important fundamentals for steps. That I included there will not be repeated here. For a stairw...

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Alt. Build Blog: Building A Well House #4: Framing The Hip Roof

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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, September 17, 2012. Building A Well House #4: Framing The Hip Roof. This is the 4th post in a series on building a well house,. And I hope you will look at the previous posts. To get up to speed on this project:. Building A Well House #1: Rubble Fill Foundation. Building A Well House #2: Dry Stack Cement Block. Building A Well House #3: More On Dry Stack Cement Block. The very top p...

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Alt. Build Blog: Building An Adobe Wall: #2 Getting Started

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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, December 1, 2014. Building An Adobe Wall: #2 Getting Started. After the first post in this series. Where we looked at how to build the stone foundation for our adobe wall. We will now take a look at making the "gringo blocks",. And setting up our mud mixing area for making the adobe mortar that will be used with our bricks. All of the posts to date are:. But of course I have a diffe...

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Alt. Build Blog: Tips On Building A Dry Stack Stone Wall #2: Getting Stone

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An Exploration of Alternative Building Techniques and Design Ideas For The Owner-Builder With All Original Content. Monday, February 24, 2014. Tips On Building A Dry Stack Stone Wall #2: Getting Stone. In the previous post we took a look at the need for erosion control in our project area. And the tools that we would use in building our dry stack stone walls. The posts to date in this continuing series are:. Tips On Building Dry Stack Stone Walls #1: Project, Tools. To minimize disruption to the area.

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Butabu | Afritecture

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August 19, 2016. Nina Maritz: Understanding and responding to context. Christian Benimana: Everybody deserves good architecture. Jack Travis: Notes on a Black Architectural Aesthetic. Diébédo Francis Kéré: Architecture is About People. June 8, 2009. In a fascinating book, published in 2003, titled ‘Butabu: Adobe Architecture of West Africa’, and co-authored by British photographer James Morris. And Harvard professor Suzanne Preston Blier. A stunning visual array of these structures is displayed. House, B...

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Khamsa House | Afritecture

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August 19, 2016. Nina Maritz: Understanding and responding to context. Christian Benimana: Everybody deserves good architecture. Jack Travis: Notes on a Black Architectural Aesthetic. Diébédo Francis Kéré: Architecture is About People. April 6, 2015. Petite Côte, Senegal. A Dakar based architecture practice that focuses exclusively in architecture constructed of mud/earth brick, was given extraordinary freedom, a total. According to Richard Rowland, principal of Atelier Koé:. The project concept revolves...