Adobe façade
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Projekt • By Funcionable arquitectura • Privathäuser
Eternal house. Made of earth, lime, cork and wood
One of the two owners, a descendant of a family of potters and ceramists who preserved this tradition in the construction stage, proposed to build their house with the working material of their ancestors: clay and craftwork. The location of the site, next to the family ceramic workshop, facilitated the production of the adobes, updated in modern compressed earth blocks (CEB). The earth would be extracted from the usual location available in the area, located in the nearby municipalities of Puente del Arzobispo and Alcolea de Tajo. They would produce the blocks to build their own walls.
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The owners manufactured a manually operated mechanism to press the blocks... Mehr
Nachrichten • Nachrichten • 9 Juli 2021
Flevoland Food Forum reveals a compelling adobe façade drawn from the land beneath
Located in the Netherlands, Flevoland Food Forum pavilion is positioned more than four meters below sea level on the Floriade Park in Almere. The building reveals the story of the site in a unique way by lifting a 5-meter thick layer of Flevoland soil to the sea-level line.
Maarten Feenstra
Designed by architectural firm Doepel Strijkers, the building concept is inspired by the principles of Nature-Based Building and incorporates principles of ‘circular building’ by closing water, energy, material, waste and food cycles as far as possible in a didactic manner.
Maarten Feenstra
The ground floor of the pavilion makes reference to the nearby sea with its light, reflective and transparent nature. The floor is... Mehr