Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture

183 Cultural, Educational and Sacral Buildings Beginning in 2005, this mosque, which has two circular rooms of 9 m diameter, eac ...

184 Built examples Architects and engineers: Arup Associates, London, Great Britain Completion: 2001 Area: 596 m^2 The Druk Whit ...

185 Cultural, Educational and Sacral Buildings ...

186 Built examples The building is a three-storeyed post-and- beam structure that is planked with diago- nal buttressing sheathi ...

187 Cultural, Educational and Sacral Buildings Architects: Gluckman Mayner Architects, New York, USA Completion: 2001 Area: 3160 ...

This small ecological resort lies 100 m off the ocean on the Eyre Peninsula, 1000 km west of Adelaide in a desert climate. It pr ...

All walls of this academic accomodation building on the campus of Charles Sturt Uni- versity are built with rammed earth. Mechan ...

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191 Cultural, Educational and Sacral Buildings Architects: ask architects, Hermann Scheidt, Frank Kasprusch, Berlin, Germany Com ...

192 Built examples The chapel stands at the border formerly separating West from East Berlin, on the site of the former neo-Goth ...

193 Cultural, Educational and Sacral Buildings ...

194 Built examples The building serves as the primary teaching and meditation hall for the existing Zen Buddhist compound, locat ...

195 Cultural, Educational and Sacral Buildings ...

196 Appendices Future prospects In areas with colder climates, earthen architecture may never play the dominant role it already ...

197 Appendices Measures In this book, all measures as regards lengths and areas as well as physical values are based on the metr ...

Bibliographical references Aslam, M.; Satiya, R.C.: “A Technique of Water- proofing Mud Walls.” Building Materials Note No. 14. ...

Turowski, R.: Entlastung der Rohstoff- und Primärenergiebilanz ...Dissertation, University of Essen, Germany 1977. United Nation ...

200 Appendices Graphic design: Gabrielle Pfaff, Berlin Translation: Shalima Hingorami, Rajeshwari Prakash, Sanjay Prakash, New D ...