Adobe (brick)

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The adobe is a brick of raw Ground, dried with the sun (see Céramique), and used as construction material. These bricks are obtained starting from a mixture of Argile, water and possibly of a binder used in minor amount: Straw chopped for example.

It is about one of first construction materials: the first known cities were built out of raw ground bricks. This material still one of is used in the world, one finds it on all the continents.

Manufacture

The bricks are run within an opened framework, a rectangle whose dimensions are in general of 10x25x36 cm although other sizes are met. After the mixture was versed in the mould, this one is withdrawn. After a few hours, the bricks are turned on their section to finish drying. During drying, the bricks should be placed at the shade to avoid the appearance of cracks. Pieces of wood can be introduced during construction in order to reinforce bricks or to improve the insulation of the building.

The greatest structure built with adobes was the citadel of Bam in Iran, seriously damaged at the time of the earthquake of the December 26th 2003. Other constructions are imposing: the Huaca LED Ground with the Peru with 100 million bricks and Chan Chan, also in Peru like several mosques in Western Africa (for example with the Mali: with Tombouctou and Djenné). The photograph attached must be clarified. Indeed the men are making a ground coating on the wall built beforehand with bricks.

External bonds

  • Article of Eco Footbridge on a press for the manufacture of compressed bricks.
  • Article of Eco Footbridge on a village of reintegration by raw ground construction.
  • Manufacture of adobes in the Bresse for the restoration of an old sluice-gate truss.
  • Manufacture of Adobe on a building site of self-help housing in Midday the Pyrenees (Charmeau house)

See too

The company of multimedia software Adobe took again this name for the idea of rough creation which it conveys, creation that Adobe seeks to transmit to the user via his software.

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