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Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:43 pm
by LionHeart-112
no thanks but i think i will keep chasing my american dream of a house made of brick/wood and a picket fence.
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:45 pm
by gurey25
but if i go back to garadag
ill give it a go...
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:49 pm
by LaDy-Qac
But why would we need these homes in Somalia were natural disasters aren' t common at all?. I think South asia might benefit from these types of houses that' s if they are as secure as they are portrayed to be!.
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 12:54 pm
by gurey25
Lady qac becuase they are cheap and can be constructed by a few geeljire with minimum training.
plus no need for imports of cement or other stuff.
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:33 pm
by Grant
My great grandparents built a three-room adobe house in about 1876. It stood until 1962, when it was demolished to build a more "modern" house. Family tradition has it that it was warm in the winter and cool in the summer, much more so than wooden structures of the period. It was never painted or even whitewashed on the outside, and stood intact until in was torn down.
Gurey,
How do they form that roof?
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:54 pm
by Gedo_Boy
gurey25,
Yes, that's interesting.........but I think this is more practical in Somalia........This would be great for building village-level housing because of the low costs.........this device creates blocks from the very earth you use to dig out the foundation and costs around $4K for raw materials..........this organization provides training on how to manufacture the machines and a small machine shop is enough to weld together some of these machines.
people can even start village level small businesses with this.
http://www.mountain.org/work/peak/earthblock/index.cfm
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 1:54 pm
by AbdiWahab252
Nice post Gurey.
This beats a lot of the shacks in Somalia made of corrugated iron sheets
Posted: Thu May 25, 2006 2:06 pm
by Gedo_Boy
gurey25,
Yes, that's interesting.........but I think this is more practical in Somalia........This would be great for building village-level housing because of the low costs.........this device creates blocks from the very earth you use to dig out the foundation and costs around $4K for raw materials..........this organization provides training on how to manufacture the machines and a small machine shop is enough to weld together some of these machines.
people can even start village level small businesses with this.
http://www.mountain.org/work/peak/earthblock/index.cfm