AS IT WAS IN EGYPT......


AFRICANS REVERT TO ANCIENT CONSTRUCTION METHODS TO SOLVE HOUSING CRISIS



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Semi-arid regions of Africa face unique obstacles in their efforts to address a growing housing crisis. For years people built roofs with bush timber, but thanks to climate change and deforestation, those building methods are no longer feasible. And sheet metal is simply too expensive for most rural families. So the Nubian Vault Association is bringing back an ages-old sustainable building material: mud bricks.

Back in 2000, Burkina Faso farmer Seri Youlou and Frenchman Thomas Granier started the association, which is also known by its French name Association La Voûte Nubienne (AVN). They resurrected what they call the Nubian Vault technique, or the process of constructing sturdy vaulted roofs with mud bricks similar to processes employed [thousands of years] ago in Ancient Egypt. The bricks are formed with earth and water and then dried in the sun. Houses with these vaulted roofs last for at least 50 years, or even more if they are well maintained. They’re also cheaper than tin or timber, and stay warm in cold weather and cool in warm weather.
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The association also works for economic growth by training local apprentices and supporting village masons in multiple West African countries. They aim for a self-sustaining Nubian Vault market, and according to Curbed, their A Roof, A Skill, A Market program has made a $22 million economic impact. They’ve trained over 380 masons, with hundreds more learning as apprentices.

The group has now helped homeowners build over 1,800 homes across Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali, and Senegal. A Nubian Vault home costs around $1,000, and families can lower costs by making their own mud bricks.

Not only has the technique helped put a roof over families’ heads and driven economic development, it’s benefited the environment as well. According to AVN, since September 2015 Nubian Vault homes have saved around 55,000 tons of carbon dioxide from going into the atmosphere.


http://inhabitat.com/ancient-green-building-technique-helps-ease-west-africa-housing-crisis/


Our fathers....

Pharaoh Tutunkhamun (circa 1300 BC)

Can they rebuild the controversial pyramid now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HdPI7qW32zA

La Voûte Nubienne revives ancient building technique to "transform housing" in Sub-Saharan Africa

Thomas Granier explains why his organisation La Voûte Nubienne believes the future of housing in Africa can be transformed by reviving a 3,500-year-old building technique.

Justuceleague2:
Can they rebuild the controversial pyramid now?

If they had to they probably could. I'm sure the knowledge is still there somewhere.

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Reasonable!

Using 100% cement does not mean quality. My grandpa's houses (story building) built with mud and only plastered with cement still stand still after 80years!

Trust the no do gooders to criticize it as being for the poor and wretched simply cos its african. Great sustainable solution to housing though

So,show us the examples of completed houses using this new model. I'm not sure there is anyone willing to live in mud house, let's see how u manage the aesthetics

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are u a barbie ? Perhaps a barbie man. What's with pink mehn

Termites go finish d house ehn

I think is high time we look inward in tackling the housing crisis in Nigeria.

Egyptians were the best engineers on earth until the invasion.

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Oboi I like this your room o.

Who design am for you Abeg?

I gats contact the person asap

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Is that a living room or a bedroom? Confusing bedroom for living has shown that you stay in an igboro in Ajegunle.

Only if our so called African Engineers and technologist with big degrees can find a way to invent a machine to modernize the mud making process at a cheaper rate and make it look sexy. Cos even during crises one is safe in mud houses cos bullet can not penetrate it easily . Also, Imagine nature's wounder @ work, no mechanism required but it turns cold when the weather is hot as it similarly turns hot when the weather is cold especially during harmattan ...Chai, natures wonder. Tuale

One way or the other the new leads to the old.
if you study the history of architecture well you will understand that new design are gotten from an extract of the past.

I have seen pictures of some very beautiful and well finished mud cottages. I will like to see a completed version of this project.

not bad....howbeit, I see no reason why we should be reverting to old techniques when the advent of 3D Printing has dawned on us...

3D printers have already started being used in construction of houses in the US, UK, China, and Italy (they actually 3D printed a small village) and many other developed countries... and these 3D printed houses not only took less time and resources but also have been proven to last longer than conventional buildings (135 years)..

and we at BrainWire; a pioneer 3D print company with our partners in Australia are happy to bring this innovation down to Nigeria and Africa...

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in heaven abi?

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WITH A PINK THEME? damn nigga you is gay??!

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Idonbelieveu...except you are a princess or Bobrisky.

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Are you a drag queen?
Why is a guy's living room all girly, pink, silky...

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This should be a girl's room now

Happy sunday y'all. mk sure u go to church not stay home

First of all, they didn't call themselves Nubian. It was Europeans that called them Nubian, when in fact the real name is Kemet or Cush/Kush. They should begin by restoring back their original names in the history books, returning the cache of artifacts they stole from Kemet, and rewriting history to reflect the truth about Kemetic origin of human civilization. After that anything else can follow.

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i dont see any living room i see a bedroom instead

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If this is your living you and your profile says you are a man, then you may be gay or a woman wrapper. [b][/b]

That pyramid, na their gods come down to help them build am