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Architettura contemporanea in terra cruda

2010

It is estimated that between a third and a half of the world's population, approximately three billion people on six continents, lives in building constructed of earth. Earth building are commonly perceived to be used only by the poor or found only in developing countries, but there are earth buildings of almost every architectural type in use by every economic and social class in both the industrialized and non-industrialized worlds.

Earth building Architecture InnovationSettore ICAR/12 - Tecnologia Dell'Architettura
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Geomaterials in green building practices: comparative characterization of commercially available clay-based plasters

2013

Three pre-mixed powdered clay-based (earthen) plasters produced in Europe and specifically designed for wall undercoating were analyzed in this paper. These materials are commercially available and successfully employed in green building practices all over the world. Their compositional and textural characteristics, as well as plastic behaviour were investigated through a multi-analytical approach: X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD), polarized light microscopy (PLM), X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (XRFS), scanning electron microscopy equipped with an energy dispersive spectrometer (SEM-EDS), mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP), grain-size distribution (GSD) and semi-empirical tests (Atterberg…

Energy Dispersive SpectrometerEarth building materialGlobal and Planetary ChangePolarized light microscopyFluorescence spectrometrySoil ScienceMineralogyGeologyClay-based plasterCompositional and textural characterizationAtterberg limitsRaw materialPollutionEarthen plasterCharacterization (materials science)Green buildingearth plaster geomaterialsGeomaterialgeomaterialsTerra rossaearth plasterEnvironmental ChemistrySettore GEO/09 -Georis. Miner.e Appl.Mineral.-Petrogr. per l'Ambi.ed i B.Cult.Earth-Surface ProcessesWater Science and Technology
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Reviving earthen architecture in Palestine: The added significances of the building sustainability and an opportunity for the future

2016

Several attempts have emerged recently in Palestine aiming to find an economical-environmental alternative building material beside the widely-used natural stone as a main building material, due to some factors related to the cost and the negative effects of stone mining areas on the local environment. Similar attempts had a certain response to the peculiar social needs and economic situation there. The efforts led to revive earthen architecture on organizational and individual levels, producing a certain number of earthen buildings in the last few years. In order to evaluate the appropriateness of earth as an alternative raw material in Palestine, the paper outlines the general advantages …

Low Cost TechniqueBuilding EnvelopeSocial Housing RefurbishmentRebuilding PalestineEarth Building TechniqueSocial ParticipationSettore ICAR/12 - Tecnologia Dell'Architettura
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