LOCALTALKS 01.20 - BUILDING WITH EARTHBAGS
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ต.ค. 2024
- LOCALTALKS, conversations about green design.
Our first event, themed BUILDING WITH EARTHBAGS, was held as a webinar on the 17th of June 2020, presented by Felix Holland and Edson Agume directly from Mustardseed Junior School in Sentema, Uganda.
This kindergarten and primary school, designed and built by Localworks, is currently under construction using the earthbag technology as well as a series of other inventive eco-friendly materials and appropriate technologies.
Buildings made of earthbags represent an interesting way of using non-stabilised earth without having to face the challenges of formwork and of relying on a relatively simple form of manual labour.
Using material excavated on site, mixed with sand, filled and compacted into woven polypropylene bags made in Uganda and tied together using barbed wire, this technology represents a particularly local and green type of building - a suitable showcase for what LOCALTALKS is all about and as such an ideal topic for our first event.
This video is a recording of the event where we present the design, the construction technology, our experience, challenges and successes. It also includes a walk over on the construction site and the building of a wall by our guests !
Looking forward for your feedback !
This is a great innovation for Ugandans to look up to
Where can I go to learn this.
Im interested to do practical.
this is not good for modernization in Africa and only just a little easier then bricks. but bricks look better. the Chinese build modern schools, the Europeans want Africans to stick to mud. don't see these in Europe
Hi oneplot. Interesting comment, but not based on facts. The earthbag technology comes from the US where it was very popular especially in the 70's. There are many contemporary examples of earth construction worldwide, with Central European countries such as Germany and Austria playing a leading role. If we want to find a way of reducing the negative impact of human expansion, then building with earth is the future - globally, and not at all restricted to Africa.
We need especially when it comes to low cost housing.
I need to know what is the cost vs the local mad bricks.
That's ignorant statement.
What do you think bricks are made of?
They will be using resources around them in a more innovative, long-lasting, durable, economical way.