1st Edition
Earthen Architecture: Past, Present and Future
Earthen architecture is widespread all over the world and demonstrates a significant richness of varieties both in application and in materials used. This book discusses and debates the lessons that can be learned from earthen architecture to create sustainable architecture today, both for the conservation of traditional existing buildings and the design and construction of new ones. It deals with the study of earthen architecture around the world in order to preserve our earthen built heritage and proposes these building techniques as a sustainable option for building a new architecture of the future.
Earthen Architecture: Past, Present and Future will be a valuable source of information for academics and professionals in the fields of Civil Engineering, Construction and Building Engineering and Architecture.
Preface
Organization and committees
Conference support
Plenary lectures
Continuity of French rammed earth architecture
H. Guillaud, S. Moriset & D. Gandreau
Lectures
A web map for Italian earthen architecture
M. Achenza & C. Cocco
The documentation and analysis of the earthen architecture in Saudi Arabia
A.A. Alaidarous
Earth-based architecture linked to charcoal making in north Aragon mountain ranges
Q. Angulo, E. Monesma & A. Quiterio
A pentagonal block home
G. Barbeta & E. Navarrete
Thermal improvement of rammed earth buildings by the inclusion of natural cork
G. Barbeta & F.X. Massó Ros
36 Thankas to promote the conservation of the Ladakhi earthen heritage
M. Bertagnin, D.D. Antoni, A. Skedzuhn-Safir, M. Oeter & H. Vets
The first Italian Rammed earth restoration guidelines
G. Bollini & I. Parodi
Jute fabric to improve the mechanical properties of rammed earth constructions
S. Briccoli, M. Fagone, F. Loccarini & G. Ranocchiai
Practices and demands in retrofitting of vernacular rammed earth houses
A. Buzo, H.J. Cho, L. Genis & G. Paccoud
Latest trends in rammed earth restoration in western Andalucía
J. Canivell & A. Graciani
Albacete fairground: Conservation of a singular rammed earth building
C. Caro
Restoration of the Rojano Tower in Lorca (Murcia, Spain)
P.E. Collado
Saint Anthony hermitage: An example of earth rammed wall in a reconquest church
L. Cortés, S. Tormo, R. Marín & J. Pardo
Ceramic connectors & culture connection
V. Cristini & J.R. Ruiz-Checa
A parameterization of brick-reinforced rammed earth in Valencian Region (Spain)
V. Cristini, F. Martella, C. Mileto & F. Vegas
Transdisciplinarity in rammed earth construction for contemporary practice
M. Dabaieh & M. Sakr
From refined to popular architecture. Mixed rammed earth walls with adobe reinforcements
M. del Río & F. Jové
C.A.S.A.—Central American Sustainable Architecture
L. Di Virgilio & S. Parlato
Stratigraphic analysis of earthen architecture: The mosque of M’Hamid El Ghizlane
O. Domínguez, A. García & C. Moreno
Air lime-earth blended mortars—assessment on fresh state and workability
P. Faria, I. Dias, N. Jamú & V. Silva
Earthen construction in Alto Arnoia river valley, Galicia
A. Fernández
The vernacular earthen architecture near Turin (Piedmont, Italy)
F. Fratini, S. Rescic, C. Riminesi, M. Mattone, L. Rovero & U. Tonietti
Evaluation of seismic behaviour of rammed earth structures
R. Gallego & I. Arto
Restoration of monumental rammed earth buildings in Spain in the last decade according to the 1% Cultural Program
L. García Soriano, C. Mileto, F. Vegas & V. La Spina
Early modern period adobe in Sicily: Recent finds
M.L. Germanà
The Ksar Sidi Bou Abdellah in Mdagra Oasis, Morocco
T. Gil & P. Rodríguez-Navarro
Puzzolanic materials for restoration of earthen architecture
L.F. Guerrero, F.J. Soria & R.S. Roux
The presaharian settlements of the Ziban: The persistence of Roman elements
in native Islamic dwelling
S. Haoui
Earthen architecture’s on seismic areas: Costa Rica’s case
I. Hernández
Rammed earth consolidation techniques: Restoration of Talamanca del Jarama city wall
E. Herrero
From stone to rammed earth: The open plan architecture in Sinyent Farm (Valencia, Spain)
F. Iborra & I. Matoses
Contemporary rammed earth construction. Alexandre Bastos—creativity and maturity
F. Jorge
The fitness of earthen architecture
C. Kraus
Compressive strength of blood stabilized earthen architecture
C. Kraus, D. Hirmas & J. Roberts
Location and conservation of rammed earth in Chelva (Spain)
M.Á. Lloría, J.A. Cantó & S.D. Lozano
The walls construction system in Muza Tower (Benifaio, Spain)
V. López, S. Tormo & T.M. Pellicer
Design in Jericho: Contemporary earthen architecture and local cultural landscape
F.M. Lorusso & S. Mecca
The karsheef: Problems of cultural and environmental conservation
G. Martines
Characterization of external renderings of rammed earth constructions in the Algarve
L. Mateus, J. de Brito & M.R. Veiga
Masked defensive architecture. El portal de Massalavés
I. Matoses
Sequential organization for self-built earthen construction site
S. Mecca & M. Achilli
Restoration of rammed-earth monumental buildings 1980–2011, the Valencian Community (Spain)
M. Mestre, L. García Soriano, M. Diodato & V. La Spina
Conservation of earthen architecture in the United States of America: Some case studies
C. Mileto & F. Vegas
Innovation through a public construction using rammed earth in Alsace
L. Piccon & A. Mesbah
The other architecture: From natural caves to excavated housing
B.P. García & J.C. Pérez Sánchez
First considerations for an adobes mensio-chronology 287
D. Pittaluga & R. Pagella
T.E.R.R.E.—Technological Experiments and Research on Earth buildings
S. Pollak & A. Fasoli
An itinerary through Sardinian earth built villages
E. Pusceddu
Light Earth Designs: Natural material, natural structure
M.H. Ramage, T. Hall & P. Rich
Experimental rammed earth prototypes in Mediterranean climate
L. Rincón, S. Serrano, L.F. Cabeza, B. González, A. Navarro & M. Bosch
Inventory of Outat valley ksour in Morocco
P. Rodríguez-Navarro & T. Gil
Knowledge exchange for innovation in the vernacular rammed earth technique, Peru
S. Rodríguez-Larraín, J. Vargas-Neumann, S. Onnis & R. Correa
The Jiayuguan Fortress: Structural consistency and safeguarding programs
L. Rovero & U. Tonietti
Guidelines elaboration for a self-building manual with earth in Chiapas State, Mexico
K. Sánchez
Clay boards and panels—an innovative earth building product for drywall construction
H. Schroeder
Earth as a construction material conserving Addiriyah of Saudi Arabia
M.S. Zami
Architecture and landscape in Sharq al-Andalus. The conservation of an Islamic qarya
A. Soler, R. Soler & E. Paredes
Study of the Pre-Hispanic Road located in the PUCP Campus, Lima, Peru
J. Vargas-Neumann, F. Jonnard, S.G. Zacarias & J.M. Robles
Rammed earth and prestige in Rincón’s region, the Abbey House in Castielfabib, Spain
À. Vázquez-Esparza
Contributions of traditional façades to the thermal comfort
J. Vercher, F. Cubel, C. Lerma, Á. Mas & E. Gil
Author index
Biography
C. Mileto, F. Vegas, L. García Soriano, V. Cristini