Straw + Simplicity = Quake Resistance
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
A women’s community center was built of straw bales in Jabori, Pakistan in 2006. Read the story by By ANDREW C. REVKIN at Ny Times
Related: Appropriate Housing
Labels: Appropriate Technology, Housing
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:00 AM,
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Nepal Project
Friday, May 25, 2012
I was in a village called Kasur, near Lahore. They had some flat roofed earth buildings which were just fascinating. The mud plaster, craftsmenship, the roof were exquisite. But unfortunately they are being replaced by modern construction material. I asked an elderly person about his perception on the mud building and he said, there is a “firman” that when all the mud buildings are replaced, then the prophet will come back again. Is that a common perception?
But anyways its a great initiative. We are doing similar stuff in Nepal, please check http://www.abari.org by Nirpal.
Labels: Nepal
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:19 AM,
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Gaza's New Mud Homes
Thursday, May 24, 2012
The Muslims of Gaza are now re-building their lives using mud bricks! A Palestinian had travelled to South Asia and saw how the people lived in mud dwellings, and used the idea in Gaza. Now it is recieving funding and help, and the people are building their own mud brick homes.
From BBC
Labels: Mud Architecture
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:12 AM,
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Students of Architecture from Lahore on excursion trip to TGD
Tuesday, May 22, 2012
Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka, commonly called Dolls Village, has special attraction for all those who are interested in architecture and those who are interested in traditional housing. Thanks to the long standing experiences of the TTTC with simple technology and mud housing, combined with the cooperation with SPARC in Lahore that the common perception about local and environment friendly materials has undergone a fundamental change. Through the initiative IEC@BNU and through the FPAC Foundation, which publishes the quarterly magazine GREEN MAG, for the first time architecture students and professors have visited the project intentionally in order to acquaint themselves with the traditional mud architecture and how it exists in Thatta Ghulamka Dheroka. On their way to the village, between Lahore and Okara, the group also visited a Bio-Gas-Installation facility. Here are some images of the trip.
Read more »Labels: Mud Architecture, Mud Housing Project, TGD
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 8:46 AM,
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Fine Art of Mud Architecture
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Labels: Images, Mud Architecture
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:20 AM,
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Fine Art of Mud Architecture
Monday, May 14, 2012
Labels: Images, Mud Architecture
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:13 AM,
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PhD in Architecture
Saturday, May 12, 2012
University of Southern California, Los Angeles is seeking students to join their doctoral program in architectural technology in Fall 2010 in their globally diverse program.
The University is looking for students interested in all aspects of the building envelope: sustainability, daylighting, structures, computing, BIM, energy performance, power generation, glare, intelligent skins, etc.
We have substantial scholarships, an outstanding new facility, and extraordinary faculty. This year we hired three new tenure track faculty members in architectural technology.
For more information, please contact: Douglas Noble, FAIA, Ph.D., Chair of the Ph.D. Program School of Architecture, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089-0291, USA
Email: dnoble@usc.edu or www.usc.edu/
Labels: Architecture, Education
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:20 AM,
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SPARC Overview
Friday, May 11, 2012
Labels: SPARC
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11:21 PM,
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Housing in Rural, Urban and Fully-Autonomous Entities
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Prof Dr Norbert Pintsch (DGFK, Germany) & Aaron Pinsker (IPC, USA)
In Cooperation With:
SPARC (Ghayyoor Obaid) & TTTC (Omar M. Ali), Pakistan
CAT (Njini King Caro), Cameroon
TM (Ricardo Coslez), Colombia
In Cooperation With:
SPARC (Ghayyoor Obaid) & TTTC (Omar M. Ali), Pakistan
CAT (Njini King Caro), Cameroon
TM (Ricardo Coslez), Colombia
Introduction
This article again refers to “housing”, the architectural, economical and philosophical aspects of which have already been discussed. In this article we will discuss the scientific and technological aspect (Architecture, Urban & Regional Planning) which however are not totally independent of other areas of the culture. As clear-cut diagrams and illustrations mean more than words for the engineer and scientist, the accompanying text may be considered a literary explanation of the important inter-relationship. A very simple text for the illustrations would probably not appropriately describe the total picture.
Housing in Rural, Urban and Fully-Autonomous Entities
In the following we will discuss the very basic questions of "housing" and describe the range of possibilities between the Rural Entity and the Fully-Autonomous entities, in the middle of which is the most widely practiced concept of Urban entity. Seen from a total perspective, the Urban entity is the subject as well as the object, because the actors in this system are not able to act freely as they are bound by the compulsions and dictations of economy. The actors are forced to act in the way as they do because the system does not allow any other alternative. And: the actors in the system don’t even realize that they are not acting of their own but actually are being acted upon !
Read more »This article again refers to “housing”, the architectural, economical and philosophical aspects of which have already been discussed. In this article we will discuss the scientific and technological aspect (Architecture, Urban & Regional Planning) which however are not totally independent of other areas of the culture. As clear-cut diagrams and illustrations mean more than words for the engineer and scientist, the accompanying text may be considered a literary explanation of the important inter-relationship. A very simple text for the illustrations would probably not appropriately describe the total picture.
Housing in Rural, Urban and Fully-Autonomous Entities
In the following we will discuss the very basic questions of "housing" and describe the range of possibilities between the Rural Entity and the Fully-Autonomous entities, in the middle of which is the most widely practiced concept of Urban entity. Seen from a total perspective, the Urban entity is the subject as well as the object, because the actors in this system are not able to act freely as they are bound by the compulsions and dictations of economy. The actors are forced to act in the way as they do because the system does not allow any other alternative. And: the actors in the system don’t even realize that they are not acting of their own but actually are being acted upon !
Labels: Housing, Real Estate
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:47 PM,
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Contacts Mud Village Project
Monitoring: SPARC / SES, Anees Yaqub, 042-3631 43 83
summit@brain.net.pk
IPC / SPARC, Norbert Pintsch, 0300-8461 226
pdp33@hotmail.com
Profile / IPC, Ghayyoor Obaid, 0333-452 4 222
ghayyoor@hotmail.com
SPARC / C and I, SAJ Shirazi, 0300-8131855
sajshirazi@gmail.com
Tikedar: Muhammad Iqbal, Harappa, 0300-69 20 826
qamarzaman23@hotmail.com
Appropropriate Technology: Farooq Achmed / AFA (NGO)-TTTC, 0300-41 74 360
farooqrai@hotmail.com
Plot: PeerzadaGroup / RPT, Faizaan Peerzada, 0300-842 40 10
faizaan.peerzada@peergroup.com.pk
COMSATS Lahore, Prof Dr Rafq Malik, Chairman Faculty of Architecture, 0342-416 95 89
drrafiqmalik@ciitlahore.edu.pk
Prof Shahnawaz Zaidi, 0321-94 31 994
shahnawazz@hotmail.com
Prof Ehtesham Hussain, 0300-98 19 149
ehtesham_hussain@comsats.edu.pk
Punjab University, Lahore, Prof Dr Anis A. Siddiqi, Dean, Faculty of Architecture and Design, 0321-840 5273
anissiddiq2001@yahoo.com
anis@cad.pu.edu.pk
COMSATS, Abbottabad, Prof Dr Amir H. Malik, 0300-58 11 639
ahmalik@ciit.net.pk
Labels: About
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 10:01 PM,
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Use of Mud Architecture in Pakistan
Friday, May 4, 2012
Sample of Mud Architecture from PakistanLabels: Mud Architecture
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 9:13 PM,
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Making sense of social media
See how I got PageRank increase on May 3, 2012
Labels: Fine Art of Blogging
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 11:16 AM,
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Thatta Kedona
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Volunteers: Dr. Senta Siller, Dr. Norbert Pintsch, Jane Carew-Reid, Dr. Karola Groch, Inge Keindl, Uta Moeller, Dr. Sophie Kuppler, Berhard Staeck, Erika Burchhardt, Gertrud Baier, Renate Perner, Lutz Fluegge, Dr. Nadine Jaeger, Isabel Merkel, Marleen Hamid, Monika Kuppler, Sabine Piltz, Stephanie Walter, Gundula Gomoll, Alexandra Scherer, Rainer Schmitt, Helga Schmitt-Pritz, Dr. Tobias Leonhardt, Marlies Bartkiewitz, Dr.Gwendolyn Kulick, Gittebritt Pintsch, Dr Leila Siller, Dr. Elizabeth Carew-Reid, Ursula Huette, Dr. Amir Malik, Khalid Javaid, Lok Virsa, S A J Shirazi, Ulrike Vestring, Omar M. Ali, AFA (NGO)
Thatta Kedona cooperation with: SPARC, FPAC, BNU, IPC, DGFK
Projects: Kite-project, LC-project, Village Museum, Internet Radio Station, Buffalo Pond, TTTC, WAC, BHU, WaterProject, IEC@BNU
Labels: Thatta Kedona
posted by S A J Shirazi @ 12:47 AM,
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