Rammed earth as a sustainable building technique for affordable rural construction
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Abstract
Around the world, especially in rural areas, the most disadvantaged continue not to have
access to proper house. Building environment has been stated as one of the main factors for
health. Homeless people or those without appropriate one have 20 years less of life
expectance and suffer 2 to 50 times more health issues than the rest of the population
according to Doctors Without Borders. Housing has also influence in general wellbeing and is
an indicator of development.
With the best purposes, governments, organizations and institutions have been finding ways
to provide homes to different regions for the most needed. Despite all those efforts Habitat for
Humanity estimated in 2015 that 1,6 billion of people around the world live in an “inadequate
shelter”. Most of them live in rural areas so they have attired the attention in the last past
years.
Furthermore, those organizations do not pay attention in the specific necessities such as the
suitability of the proposed housing with the climate, or the integration of those new homes
into the existing aggrupation. The initiatives usually consist to provide a few prototypic
dwellings per zones, limited by the budget.
This thesis presents the process done so far, inside a project with the main objective to
provide the rural village of Dewgain the knowledge of a new building tool technique, suitable
to their specific necessities and climates, to empower the community people and make them
actors of their own development. It is also continuity to the project initiated by the architect
student Nicole C. Little from the University at Buffalo in collaboration with Live-in-Labs
program of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham. From her work Rammed Earth was designated as
one of the possible solutions.
My participation in the project was initiated with one visit at the village, which was conducted
for data and soil collection for analysis. The methodology and analysis are presented, which
were set as a base to start designing the solution.
Based on the literature review, the analysis of the Dewgain soil was done to determine its
suitability for the type of soil construction selected. Also a stabilizer was defined through
methodic testing.
Since the project team had any experience on this kind of construction, a second visit was
effectuate at the heart of the earth construction in India, Auroville (Tamil Nadu). The visit
served up to get some advices for RE construction but also to know about alternative
solutions for flooring and roofing.
Finally, a RE building prototype was designed and executed in the Ettimadai university
campus of Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham as a previous stage to its application in Dewgain
village, considering that it was necessary as a demonstration of the technique viability, but
also as a testing site to proof its theoretical excellent properties.
TitulacióMÀSTER UNIVERSITARI EN ENGINYERIA INDUSTRIAL (Pla 2014)
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