This paper describes the concept and realization of an earthquake-proof prototype to verify the appropriateness of an orphanage to be built in Haiti. The construction system utilizes mainly natural and local materials like rice straw bales and bamboo. This work is the result of a master thesis in Architecture at the Politecnico di Torino. It originates from the collaboration with Architettura senza frontiere Piemonte, an Italian NGO. The wider scope of the project is to contribute to returning to rice farming and to recognizing rice straw as an appropriate building material for Haiti. Both goals would constitute a step towards establishing an integrated social, economic, environmental, agricultural, and architectural process.

Re-start from straw / Restagno, M.; Ricci, GIAN NICOLA; Bocco, Andrea - In: Non-Conventional Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Engineering / Ghavami K., Perazzo Barbosa N., Bezerra U.T., Zhemchuzhnikov A.. - STAMPA. - Dürnten : Scientific NET (Trans Tech Publications), 2014. - ISBN 9783037859810. - pp. 801-809 [10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.600.801]

Re-start from straw

RICCI, GIAN NICOLA;BOCCO, Andrea
2014

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This paper describes the concept and realization of an earthquake-proof prototype to verify the appropriateness of an orphanage to be built in Haiti. The construction system utilizes mainly natural and local materials like rice straw bales and bamboo. This work is the result of a master thesis in Architecture at the Politecnico di Torino. It originates from the collaboration with Architettura senza frontiere Piemonte, an Italian NGO. The wider scope of the project is to contribute to returning to rice farming and to recognizing rice straw as an appropriate building material for Haiti. Both goals would constitute a step towards establishing an integrated social, economic, environmental, agricultural, and architectural process.
2014
9783037859810
Non-Conventional Materials and Technologies for Sustainable Engineering
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