Behausungen dwellings habitations bostäder
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Arcosanti’s Architecture
Paolo #Soleri settled in Paradise Valley, #Arizona in 1955. On the 5-acre plot where he made his home, he began building #experimental #dwellings using unique and innovative #building techniques. Called #Cosanti, Soleri’s former studios and home is recognized as an Arizona Historic Site. Using an earth-casting method where concrete was poured over the #earth, taking its shape from the contours of the #land, Soleri created the unique and provocative structures and dwellings at Cosanti. Sometimes, #soil was intentionally mounded or colored with added cement pigments. Once the concrete had cured, the soil was excavated out from the #concrete shell. Evocative of Grecian and Egyptian #structures from the ancient world, or alluding to those seen in movies set in a time long, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, Cosanti’s experimental architecture has a beguiling otherworldliness.
Where most builders today would build a building from the ground up, Soleri built his structures from the roof down. Many of Soleri’s structures at Cosanti are built below ground level and surrounded by mounds of earth, acting as natural insulation to better moderate the dwellings’ interior temperatures. The Dome House (1949) in Cave Creek Arizona was the first of Soleri’s semi-subterranean projects.
The house that can withstand a cyclone: how traditional dwellings are making a comeback in Vanuatu
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/09/the-house-that-can-withstand-a-cyclone-how-traditional-dwellings-are-making-a-comeback-in-vanuatu
A saeklon haos is a one-room building, built as a place to sleep, and often forms part of a rural living compound that include a separate kitchen, smol haos (pit latrine), and bathing area. Increasingly, these traditional structures stand alongside buildings made with cement, corrugated metal sheet roofing, and other non-traditional materials.
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