Groupwork, formerly Amin Taha Architects
London
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Mostly crudely cut 500mm deep stone blocks mortar stacked
Cheap, cool in Sumer & warm in winter
Posh it up with a render finish. Keeps the moisture out too in rainy climates
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a town of stones cut from the top of earth’s epidermis, 50-70km deep
& ~1.35 × 10¹⁹ m³ of stone
if we use 100m3 for internal & external walls on a 120m2 family home
that’d be 11m family homes per person for all 8bn people on the planet
& a drop in house prices
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15yrs ago structural engineer Lorenc Gjikuria returned to his home mountain village overlooking the Albanian Ionian coastline & bought 20 of the abandoned homes in its highest parts. Reassembling stone walls, roofs & relearning lessons such as planting trees on the windward side
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Onto a tour of a stalled project, that offers a reprieve to a mixed mature coastal woodland. Horrifically the architect planned to tarmac the lot with “luxury” suburban housing. Imagination needed for a conundrum allowing rural land owners to develop x1.0-2.0 their site footprint
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9 social housing apartments in Mallorca
Recessed balconies with adjustable shade, lots of natural materials, access to natural light and ventilation
By Estruch Martorell, Estudio E. Torres Pujol + Ripon Tizon
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