Building with Earth Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture.pdf

Building with Earth
1 Introduction
Gernot Minke
Building with Earth
Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture
Birkhäuser – Publishers for Architecture
Basel · Berlin · Boston
3 Appendices
Preface 7 6 Working with earthen blocks 61
History 61
I The technology of earth building Production of earth blocks 62
position 65
1 Introduction 11 Laying earth blocks 65
History 11 Surface treatment 66
Earth as a building material: the essentials 13 Fixing fasteners to walls 67
Improving indoor climate 15 Lightweight loam blocks 67
Prejudices against earth as a building material 18 Special acoustic green bricks 68
2 The properties of earth as a building material 19 7 Large blocks and prefabricated panels 69
Composition 19 Large blocks 69
Tests used to analyse position of loam 21 Prefabricated wall panels 70
Effects of water 24 Floor slabs 70
Effects of vapour 29 Floor tiles 71
Influence of heat 31 Extruded loam slabs 71
Strength 32
pH-value 35 8 Direct forming with wet loam 72
Radioactivity 35 Traditional wet loam techniques 72
Shelter against high-frequency ic The “Dünne loam loaf” technique 74
radiation 35 The stranglehm technique 75
3 Preparing of loam 36 9 Wet loam infill in skeleton structures 80
Soaking, crushing and mixing 36 Thrown loam 80
Sieving 38 Sprayed loam 80
Mechanical slurrying 38 Rolls and bottles of straw loam 81
Water Curing 38 Lightweight loam infill 82
Thinning 38 Infill with stranglehm and earth-filled hoses 82
4 Improving the earth’s characteristics 10 Tamped, poured or pumped lightweight loam 83
by special treatment or additives 39 Formwork 83
Reduction of shrinkage cracks 39 Tamped lightweight straw loam walls 83
Stabilisation against water erosion 40 Tamped lightweight wood loam walls 84
Enhancement of binding force 42 Tamped, poured or pumped lightweight
pressive strength 43 mineral loam walls 85
Strength against abrasion 47 Pumped lightweight mineral loam floors 88
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