From Mud and Back To Mud
From Mud and Back To Mud
From Mud and Back To Mud
AND
BACK TO MUD
ICDPCA 15
Thanima
International Conference on Reinventing Design Pedagogy and Contextual Aesthetics
Aesthetics
Art as document and manifestation of man in his sociological, geographical and cultural context.
Globalization
The concept of beauty and its expressions no longer identifies different societies and cultures but
a uniform world.
Standardization of Beauty
CUT WITH THE PAST
With industrialization, there is sudden break with tradition.
new models,
new materials
new techniques, methods of construction.
Traditional Materials
were simply discarded and forgotten in offspring of industrial and economic development.
In social terms this behaviour reflects the attitude of "modern times" due to an unreasonable
consumerism, with strong adhesion to the New, for the simple reason that it is New.
The conjuncture of Popular expression together with the artistic Movements demarcate the
individuality of each country, region, society, culture and of each work.
Traditional architecture
It is the mirror of a culture, religion, society to which it belongs. In it lies the deep local knowledge
of its morphology, climate and materials used.
WHY?
Recognize its Influences - culture, economy, religion, geographic location.
A multidisciplinary research and developing an interpretive reading on the fundamentals of the
constructed.
HOW?
Developing an attitude of reflection, interpretation
MUD
Presents itself around the world the raw
material of choice for the construction of the
man shelters, since he abandons the nomadic
life and seeks to establish in a particular
location.
Construction technique
It consists in the compression of
the earth in a wooden shuttering
"Taipal" with dimensions 1.50 m
length x 0.60 m high and wide, with
the help of a rammer or tamper.
Rammed Earth - “Taipa”
Social activity / collective
Requires a complex collective
participation, in the past a community
activity.
Currently, mud compression process
can be done with pneumatic pylons
Details of construction
- can raise load-bearing walls.
- this walls were usually coated – today the
mud wall is in sight.
Wattle and Daub
Looking at the constructed heritage we find numerous examples of intentions associated with the
use of plaster.
• Vestment protection from the weather.
Decoration
• Illusion effect
• hygienic function
Columns of Mud
by Architecture Office Plan b.
"In the studio I want to see but do not want to be seen and I want the tank water reflections to be
seen on the surface of the wall, while softens the temperature of the summer." - Alexandre Bastos
The New Modernity
Playing with textures.
The process implies a great diversity in concepts and values present in each object at the
same time these are subjected to a process of continuous evolution
evolution.
The choice of these values and how they may impact on these interventions requires a
preparation through a series of decisions in critical selection way that will materialize in the
final object.
object
The project should be based on a range of appropriate options according to a cognitive
process that integrates the collection of information and in-depth knowledge of the future
object and its location.
Interdisciplinary Training, including to the study of the history of architecture, anthropology,
sociology, geography, materials and construction techniques.
This will be a long exercise that has to accompany the architect not only during their
educational course / training but also developed in the course of his practice in architecture.
Just put some of our past
in our future.