1. Introduction
According to the article, Cob - A Natural Alternative (Anderson, 2009), cob is a natural material that has constructed houses in many countries for hundreds of years. Cob homes are still standing today. Cob building is an inexpensive and Earth friendly. Cob building uses a simple mixture of clay, sand and straw fiber to create a durable structure. It is a well-known worldwide. In the United States, cob has replaced timber to create houses. People want to find the natural materials used, and therefore, people are interested in the cob. Soil and sand are basics of green material. It is normally mingled by foot or animals. A blender of straw fiber can flexible and tough to set them to stick together.
The purpose of this research paper is to describe the significance of the cob house and why it should build to improve Thai environment. First, the paper will discuss the benefits of cob house. Second, it will focus on how cob houses protect from natural disasters. Finally, it will show why cob material will be able to build future home foundations.
2. Benefits of cob house
2.1 Benefits of the environmental
According to the article, Questions and Answers about Cob (Dea Tech Research Inc, 2008), cob houses are formation came from nature. Natural material does not produce toxins and natural materials can be reused. Cob is proper to create natural walls and the natural wall can keep up inside temperature. The nature wall can make cool in the summer. The properties of vapor spread can control moisture. It imbibes smell in the cob house and it is an efficient noise obstacle. The natural wall also can make warm in winter. Natural walls collect energy from sunlight, and it released warmth during the night. So that inside...
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...nature. There are advantages of green building, the construction of clay can protect from natural calamity and the properties of natural materials are suitable for creating a home.
The advantages of cob building are healthy lifestyle, economical energy usage, recyclable material and non-toxic constructing substances. Tapering wall is one of the techniques to help protect ecological environment. Thus, using natural material is an excellent choice for the builder to produce home foundation.
In conclusion, it is important for surroundings to be disappearing with today's construction as these constructions will be in every part of their lives. Therefore, the environment was damaged by the construction in everyday life. It will be interesting to see what will happen in the future of Thai environment as many buildings have used natural material for building houses.
...buildings they make. Those walls hold stories that are unique and they cannot be repeated. Taking care of those buildings helps humans to preserve the lives and stories of the people who lived in them earlier.
“Various animals build shelters but only humans built homes. (Pg. 1)” The word home evokes so many emotions and mental image of past and future. At the end of the day there is no greater comfort then going home. Yet in our daily hustle and bustle and hectic schedule we seldom take time to appreciate the most age old technology that keep us safe and provide comfort. From the basic shelter and cave dwelling of the earliest humans to the modern concrete jungle of the present, humans have move past the simple shelter. Technology has allowed us to build modern homes in various shapes and sizes but this technology follows thousands of years of footstep. The author did not just catalog different structures and domicile of human history but told a story of what these structure means to us. Moore starts off on a dig site searching for archaic structures. Moore explains how humans just don’t build shelter like most animals, human homes signifies social status, comfort, shelter and creativity. Moore uses the famous multimillion dollar house of Aaron Spelling in Hollywood as an example of how extravagant our humble dwelling can be. Human homes are different shapes and sizes and often build with different material and standard based on geographical location. I believe A Prehistory of Homes is a book about the history of technology because it is written about one of the most essential invention of human evolution. Human went from caves to build our own shelter. It allowed us to be mobile and become a foraging creature. The author addresses the most commonly shared interest and provides knowledge, history and relation to past and future of our homes.
Although preservation is not a new concept and been practiced for centuries, designating historic landmarks, structures and buildings as historically significant and preserving them is a new phenomena, which brings us to a fairly straight forward question of what to preserve and what not to. The advent of new materials and advancement of construction technologies changed the style of building significantly from time to time, especially over the course of last two centuries. Although the basic construction materials like brick, wood, lime and stone are in use for centuries, the recent addition of concrete, steel and glass to that list completely overhauled the mode in which the buildings are being built. Taking into account the need, the scale and the pace of construction posed by rapid industrialization, the style of building took an unprecedented form of architecture starting in early twentieth century.
The chickee house is made with cypress logs and palmetto palms that are intertwine together by vines or thin ropes. However, the chickee does not consist of any walls because living in the tropical, walls are not necessary. The chickee homes has large diameter posts to support the roofing with a flat wooden platform that is raised three to four inches above the ground (“Chickee”). However, if there was to be storm the occupants will use a tarps made of hide or cloth to cover the chickee mount or frame to keep themselves dry (“Chickee”). However, today the chickees are made in a matter of hours with the thanks of technology; also chickees are now used by entrepreneurs for profit ("Seminole Tribe of Florida - Culture,
In the UK, Timber frame construction is based on factory made structural elements. The timber framed wall panels take the loads on the building to the foundations whilst the outer cladding provides embellishment and weather protection. Now depending on what cladding is to be used is totally up to the client/builder/architect as it is a matter of choice; it can be brick, stone or lightweight claddings, such as timber boarding, tile hanging or render.
As someone with a passion for writing, my final project will be an extended expository essay about the history of homebuilding from ancient to modern times. It will discuss the different types of dwellings throughout recorded human history from the perspective of how art and culture influences building design. This will fulfill my own curiosity to understand the different influences on homebuilding and design over the years and how people have dealt with these changes.
Building materials for housings in Roman and post-Roman times. Ward-Perkins begins by comparing the tiles used for roofing to pottery and how they were made in a similar process and sold like pottery. He discussed how tiles used in Roman times were common like pottery, and after post Roman time, the building material began to change, “. Every one of the building crafts introduced by the Romans, the mundane as well as the luxury ones, disappeared completely during the fifth century. All new buildings in the fifth and sixth centuries, whether in Anglo-Saxon or unconquered British areas, were either roofed in wood or thatch” (Ward-Perkins, 108).
After several years of use and abuse of natural resources, humanity begins to awaken from its stunned by the advances of technology, to understand the magnitude of the impact caused by its presence in the environment. At present, trends in various aspects of human activity seek to achieve a harmonious relationship with nature; one of them is the practice of interior design. The main reason because the construction industry, in particular, has incorporated especially such attention, is the result that it has proved to be one of the main sources of pollution in water, air, and noise
The residents were also not left behind in relation to the problems caused by the damages on the roads. To begin with, several cases of accidents and injuries were experienced. Examples included the frequent falls by the residents who never paid key attention to the holes while walking on the roads. Moreover, due to the lack of finances, more individuals who specialised in the renovation processes...
Urbanization has to deal with the construction of new modernized construction and the use of technology, in total it means advancing from the local to make modernized place and an industrial site. Also it includes the construction of infrastructural buildings, infrastructural buildings are buildings that are constructed for the betterment of the country for the people it includes hospital, schools, bridges, water supplies and different other buildings. Most of the land were covered by the trees, and they only few people living there, in order to develop a modernized place, or an urbanized place, construction needs to be made. In the determination of making an urbanized place where factories and all could be done, practice such as deforestation is done. Lands that were filled with tees are then cutting in order to satisfy the project of urbanization. The urbanized places are still developing which increases the rate of
van der Lugt, P., van den Dobbelsteen, A., & Janssen, J. (2005, 02 18). An enviromental, economic and pratical assessment of bamboo as a building material for supporting structures. Retrieved from Bamboo Team: http://bambooteam.com/pablo/200601%20CBM%20-%20bamboo%20article%20in%20press.pdf
Since prehistoric times, to create places of living, worship, and business, buildings have been constructed. These buildings, whether they were intended to or not, impact the surrounding environment and the people in it. Regardless of the intentionality, buildings function as components of the larger complex and landscape. In this way, Angkor Wat impacted and benefitted the city of Angkor, and subsequently added to the success of the Khmer Empire.
The next step is to have the land surveyed. When the land is surveyed you will find out where the property lines are located and also get the footer laid out and ready to dig. After the footing is prepared and poured full of concrete, the next step is to lay the foundation. Materials used are usually brick or block. The foundation has to meet certain codes which are set by the county. The inspector will have to inspect the foundation before the building process can proceed. After the foundation has passed inspection, the next step for the house is to frame.
Despite the fact that novel technologies are continuously under development to complement existing practices in coming up with greener buildings, the universal intent is that such structures are designed to diminish the general effect on the built environment on health of the humans in addition to the natural environment via: Diminishing environmental degradation, pollution and waste, improving productivity of the employee and guarding occupant health, efficient usage of water, energy, in addition to other resources.
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