preschool at mzamba
The earth filled – jute fabric and weld-mesh- walls we used at the workshop units were used by the University of Applied Science Munich (FH München) to construct a preschool unit with community support. The structure made of self-produced pillars was plastered in first layer with red sand by local plaster experts.
The construction will continue January 2013.
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workshop and storage
The set up of a workshop unit and storage serves housing farming personnel and security in the meantime. We put a new construction method to the test - casting concrete pillars and filling walls using the broadly available stones. The upper structure is made by treated wood and temporarily covered with corrugated iron.
Through ventilaton a fairly good roomclimate could be accomplished and the foundation for the container was laid. Specialists and youth of Fonelisco volunteered interested in the new way of building and members of the community were collecting and breaking stones. The building is equipped with a solar system for light and telephone charger and will be finished in the next phase.
paper on straw-light-clay
please find attached the making of our modular system with straw light clay filling
test walls at wits
plastering on the rooftop of the wits engineering lab
finishing up of 4 sample walls of the straw light clay wall filling to be put to the test at the engineering department of witwatersrand university. the students were producing test cubes for the lab – mixing under the guidance of Sifiso.
straw-light-clay workshop with WITS architecture students
++++one week workshop with students from WITS+++++mixing straw and clay++++ filling walls+++stamping++++some concrete and welding+++++motivation for local crew++++
straw-light-clay analyzed by engineers
students of Witwatersrand University for engineering are analyzing our construction method with light clay.
classroom extension with earth wall
a small team of volunteers from the University of Applied Science Carinthia joint local team and buildCollective to build the extension of the primary grad1 and 2+++++to compare different construction methods on climate issues the same classroom in size was built – not in light-clay like the grade 1 unit but – earth filled walls+++++self produced pillars and trusses are filled with earth between hessian and weldmesh++++++
