Cooking test on the finished earth stove

Note: The ventilation pipe for the smoke is still missing!

Rammed-Earth-Stove test

For info about stove plaese view earlier post: http://bhd-research-notes.blogspot.com.es/2012/06/rammed-earth-stoves-in-malawi.html

Marion Regitko, BHD executive director, inspecting the earth stove

Finishing the last layer from the top

Gordon Haslett, BHD president, sweating away with the ram rod!

Ramming the moist earth layer by layer

The wooden mold for the stove was kindly made by BHD volunteer Pedro Varela, Monachil (Granada)

NUBIAN VAULT TECHNIQUE

'The Nubian Vault technique is based on an age-old method of timberless vault construction, originating in upper Egypt. It uses only earth bricks and earth mortar. Vaults of unfired earth bricks at the Ramesseum, the funerary temple of Rameses II in Luxor, are still standing after 3,250 years.' from the website of the Association la Voûte Nubienne (AVN)


AVN HAS ALSO PUBLISHED A NUBIAN VAULT BUILDING GUIDELINE (PDF):

BUILDING GUIDELINES

COMPRESSED EARTH BLOCK MANUAL

FOR OUR BHD PROJECT IN UGANDA WE HAVE USED THE TECHNOLOGY OF INTERLOCKING COMPRESSED EARTH BLOCKS. WE FOUND A VERY USEFUL EARTH BLOCK MANUAL CALLED:
  
MANUAL OF DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION  
by Hubert Guillaud, Thierry Joffroy,  
Pascal Odul, CRATerre- EAG


YOU CAN FIND IT PUBLISHED ON THE ECOHABITAR WEBSITE AS  A PDF DOCUMENT: http://www.ecohabitar.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/04-5793-1.pd.

RAMMED EARTH STOVES IN MALAWI

RAMMED EARTH STOVE DEVELOPED BY THE EASTAFRICATRUST.ORG.UK
There are very good instructions on their website about how to build the stove etc.

PHOTO BY TRISTAN Y GEORGE

BEAUTIFUL RAMMED EARTH TECHNOLOGY

CONSTRUCTION OF RAMMED EARTH WALL
LINK TO NEWWEBPICK


LINK TO
INSPIRATION GREEN. This is a great blog with lot's of rammed earth building examples, historic and new.

FREE-FORM MASONRY SHELL

DESIGNING FREE-FORM CATANARY SHAPES WITH RhinoVAULT
DOWNLOAD THE PLUGIN HERE:
RhinoVAULT - Designing funicular form with Rhino
LINK  TO: 
MASONRY AT MIT
BLOCK RESEARCH GROEP, ETH ZÜRICH