Modern cob house.
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We always get into houses that have either been built or designed by someone. Houses that need excess warming, stone after stone of masonry work, houses needing a lot of artistry to be attractive. This thought well ecological architecture, incorporates the ancient way of buliding a house using the most available material in nature that is clay and grass. Friends come together and help you build a house and mould it into what you want, a circular, triangular and all forms you may be determined to do. You will not need weeks and weeks of yearning to be in your new house, a week for determined people may do.
Great mosque of Djenne, Mali.
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Cob architecture, enables you to use clay, grass and wooden poles, further more you do not need enormous space on land to have a home. Cob is similar to adobe one of the most ancient forms of architecture use to build in Western Africa countries like Mali and Benin, adobe method was never used in other parts of Africa like East Africa. The structures were simpler in circular or rectangular shapes, but the walls were not layered by mud bricks like seen in adobe method, instead mud would be used fill up an already built or hoisted wooden shell structure. This is what we refer to as cob and is still being used in rural areas of West and East Africa.
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Since the world is getting populated everyday and material cost getting higher and higher, comb comes in handy for every person. The most important ecological aspect of cob is mud or clay being very good insulator reserve heat during winter reducing the cost of heating. If you happen to go to Scandinavian countries like Denmark, you may happen to see people erecting grass on top of their roofs as a form of insulation. Here then, you understand another way to insulate your house and keep it warm in winter and in summer places like Australia may get unbearably way hot. The use corrugated iron sheets for building is very common in rural Australia, grass may be used to ward off the heat from the roof tops, while mud maintains same temperatures even after heating from sun.
Bricks made of concrete are too expensive in building however consider this, brick are the greatest cause of casualties in earthquake prone areas. Bricks coming loose from buildings hit people and cause fatalities, off course apart from Tsunamis following after. For areas that do not necessarily demand stone buildings like cities cob will do well. To help settle people in earthquake prone areas like recently hit Japan or Haiti this is a very prospective way to do so, because it is cheap and will take a short while to finish, therefore putting those affected by natural disasters out of the cold faster than in brick architecture.
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