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More than 700 buildings in Kenya are condemned as unsafe yet people continue to live in them. In the past 10 years alone, over 20 buildings have collapsed, killing over 100 people and injuring thousands.
Read more: https://www.nation.co.ke/oped/opinion/440808-5493282-r6qs02z/index.html) Good design principles and simple measures to prevent the spread COVID-19 inspired by African traditional health centers.
By taking a cue from African traditional care centers as well as good health care design principles, we can apply simple measures to prevent the spreading of the disease in local health care centers, our workplaces, and our homes. Read more: https://www.thinkglobalhealth.org/article/wake-call-healthier-design Buy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Koolhaas-Countryside-Report-US-AMO/dp/3836583313 Blurb: The rural, remote, and wild territories we call “countryside”, or the 98% of the earth’s surface not occupied by cities, make up the front line where today’s most powerful forces―climate and ecological devastation, migration, tech, demographic lurches―are playing out. Increasingly under a ‘Cartesian’ regime―gridded, mechanized, and optimized for maximal production―these sites are changing beyond recognition. In his latest publication, Rem Koolhaas explores the rapid and often hidden transformations underway across the Earth’s vast non-urban areas.Countryside, A Report gathers travelogue essays exploring territories marked by global forces and experimentation at the edge of our consciousness: a test site near Fukushima, where the robots that will maintain Japan’s infrastructure and agriculture are tested; a greenhouse city in the Netherlands that may be the origin for the cosmology of today’s countryside; the rapidly thawing permafrost of Central Siberia, a region wrestling with the possibility of relocation; refugees populating dying villages in the German countryside and intersecting with climate change activists; habituated mountain gorillas confronting humans on ‘their’ territory in Uganda; the American Midwest, where industrial-scale farming operations are coming to grips with regenerative agriculture; and Chinese villages transformed into all-in-one factory, e-commerce stores, and fulfillment centers. This book is the official companion to the Guggenheim Museum exhibition Countryside, The Future. The exhibition and book mark a new area of investigation for architect and urbanist Rem Koolhaas, who launched his career with two city-centric entities: The Office for Metropolitan Architecture (1975) and Delirious New York (1978). It’s designed by Irma Boom, who drew inspiration for the book’s pocket-sized concept, as well as its innovative typography and layout, from her research in the Vatican library. The book brings together collaborative research by AMO, Koolhaas, and students at the Harvard Graduate School of Design; the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing; Wageningen University in the Netherlands; and the University of Nairobi. Contributors also include Samir Bantal, Janna Bystrykh, Troy Conrad Therrien, Lenora Ditzler, Clemens Driessen, Alexandra Kharitonova, Keigo Kobayashi, Niklas Maak, Etta Madete, Federico Martelli, Ingo Niermann, Dr. Linda Nkatha Gichuyia, Kayoko Ota, Stephan Petermann, and Anne M. Schneider. LINK
http://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-0918.php?rp=P817797 Abstract Brick which is a by-product of clay soils can be found in the historical architecture of any civilization due to its affordability, accessibility, recyclability and social cultural connections especially in the hot-dry climates of the world. Its popularity as a construction material is still evident today with over a third of the global population currently living in earthen structures. Yet low cost housing provision, especially in developing countries is plagued by the ever increasing cost of building systems (technology, materials, transport, labour, etc.) and high demand for affordable housing for the low-income group. This paper examines sun dried and burnt brick production and construction technology through a study conducted in Kenya and Morocco in 2016 and 2017 respectively whose main objective was to examine the application of brick (sun-dried and burnt) in both the traditional and contemporary approaches in the hot and dry climates by using two case studies of Voi in Kenya and Tamnougalt town in Morocco. The study employed both qualitative and quantitative research methods (through case study method and structured questionnaire, discussions and observations) to collect information and data for analysis and presentation. The study findings show that in Voi, Kenya, the quality of burnt bricks produced is low which has led to high defects cases in buildings; while in Tamnought (Morocco), sun dried bricks are predominantly used with indication that more and more conventional imported materials (concrete, clay bricks, steel, etc) are being used. Index Terms: Burnt brick/sun-dried bricks/building technology/ low cost housing. LINK http://www.ijsrp.org/research-paper-0918.php?rp=P817797 |