Earthen architecture around the world
Earth has been used for eleven millennia and today remains the most widely used building material around the world. One third of the total human population lives in a building made of earth - more than two billion people in 150 countries. Earthen architectures, simple and monumental, are present in a diversity of contexts and meet a vast array of needs.
CRAterre: more than 30 years of involvement
Since 1979, CRAterre, the International center for Earthen architecture, has worked towards the recognition of earth materials as a valid response to the challenges linked to the protection of the environment, the preservation of cultural diversity and the fight against poverty.
In this perspective, CRAterre's three main objectives are centred on:
• Optimizing the use of local resources, human and natural
• Improving housing and living conditions
• Valorising and promoting cultural diversity.
CRAterre has assembled a multidisciplinary team of researchers, professionals, lecturers and trainers, working in collaboration with many partners, as a means to establish creative links between research, on-the-field activities as well as training, knowledge dissemination and sensitization activities.
Next events
News
16e festival Grains d'Isère
The 16th festival Grains d'Isère will open its doors to public on 2017, 26th of May, 10h – 17h. Around a huge heap of adobe earth in the north of Isère, France, professionals, visitors, architects, entrepreneurs, artisans, students, engineers, scientists, artists, scholars, families and curious are invited to discover together the incredible potential of this material. They are asked ...
Exposition Patrimoines endommagés des régions du nord du Mali
Le Mali possède un des patrimoines culturels les plus remarquables de l’Afrique Sub-Saharienne, dont la partie la plus visible comporte déjà quatre biens inscrits sur la Liste du patrimoine mondial et huit sur la Liste représentative du patrimoine immatériel. Ce patrimoine qui représente un fort potentiel pour le développement durable du pays a malheureusement été fortement ...
Workshop en Sardaigne
L'Università degli studi di Cagliari, membre de la Chaire UNECO "Architecture en terre crue. Cultures constructives et développement durable", en association avec l'Associazione Internazionale Città della Terra et Manufattura Urbana, organise une semaine d'ateliers sur les techniques constructives en terre crue. 1. Les bases. Connaître le matériau 2. Pisé 3. Adobe ...
Du pisé à Villeurbanne? Participez à l'inventaire!
Si dans beaucoup des projets internationaux d'ASF la terre est un matériaux souvent utilisé car disponible et peu cher, en France aussi pendant longtemps nous avons construit en terre crue. Venez participer avec Le Rize à l’inventaire du patrimoine villeurbannais en partenariat avec Architectes sans frontières le 5 et 6 mai 2017. A travers cet inventaire participatif et convivial, ...
Workshop « Layer by Layer » - Building with erosion
From 10th to 16th 2017, the Domaine du Bois Buchet welcomes for the second time the workshop ‘Layer by layer – Building with erosion’ focused on rammed eath construction. The architect Timur Ersen together with ama?co will drive particpants in the challenge of building a tea house with rammed-earth walls supporting an existing bamboo roof. Registrations on line here. ...
Special Training session PRO-PAILLE for students
Amàco and the French Network for Straw Construction (RFCP) get together and put forward a special traning session of PRO-PAILLE for students. PRO-PAILLE is a training course about professional rules of straw construction. This traning qualification is open to 25 students only. Provisional registrations on line until May 12th 2017. More information: http://www.amaco.org/webapp/website/website.html?id=101&read=true&pageId=1691 ...
Professional training course « Building with load-bearing straw and Spattering earthen coat »
From May 22nd to 26th 2017, amàco organises a new traning course for professionals dedicated to load-bearing straw construction and earthen coat spatter. The training scheme is intended for all building trade workers : craftmen, building companies, architects, engineers, researchers, materials producers, self-builders. Registration available until April 27th 2017. More information : ...
Professional traning course « Building with poured earth »
From July 17th to 21st 2017, amàco organises a trainig course dedicated to an innovative construction technique : poured earth. Through a series of exercices, feedbaks, creative and pratical workshops, all participants will learn how to build with poured earth in a pluridisciplinary way in order to know every production and application principles of this technique. The training course ...
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- Mallette pédagogique pour l’amélioration des architectures rurales en structure porteuse en bois dans le département du Sud Est d’Haïti
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