Investigating the intelligence of the low-tech earth architecture of the Sahara: A feasibility study from the western desert of Egypt

Faculty Engineering Year: 2010
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Authors:
Mady Ahmed Ahmed Mohamd
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Keywords : Investigating , intelligence , , low-tech earth architecture , , Sahara:    
Abstract:
Earth construction techniques have been in use in deserts around the world for thousands of years. Mud or clay was traditionally used in different ways as a building material. Earth is layered in formworks forming walls, as in rammed earth
   
     
 
       

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