Week 3. Creative Tuesday What does your teddy bear (or other childhood stuffed animal) dream about?
What Do U Dream About WEB
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Dreaming with Eyes Wide Open
Want to take a look ?
Go ahead !
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As in other parts of Mexico, the people at the Lpez-
Hernndez community live in temporary houses.
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As in other parts in Mexico, the root problem is not thelack of a house, but the lack of work.
WORK
MONEY
HOUSE
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Give a man a fish and he will eat one day. Teach a manhow to fish and he will eat every day.
Community
Cato
MecheMichel
Michele, a Swissphotographer,
Mercedes, a committedactivist and me, Cato, awanderer, joinedefforts, to look for afeasible alternative.
The peoplesparticipation would befundamental.
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We decided to build using
Superadobe
Affordable Sustainable
FlexibleEasy to
duplicate
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But, with so many things lacking, what would we build?
CASITA DESALUD
(clinic)
Sample house?
Visitorscenter?
Toilets?
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To make our little plan work, we made a little blueprint.
ExaminationRoom
Dorm
Kitchen-dinning
N
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Entrance
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Then, we picked, cleaned, prepared and dugthe best building site !
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We made several piles with different types ofdirt. We did some test, and we found out the
best mix with which to build our Superadobe.
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We wanted to have a clean slate towork on. So, we leveled the site!
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When it was ready, our littleblueprint got a lot bigger.
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And then, it got deep !
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Once it was deep enough, we went to the nearbyriver, got a couple of truck loads of gravel, and
filled it back in !
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And we kept doing it, but, since we were using theRubble Trench foundation system, we put the
gravel inside rows of double bags !
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We did it like this until we werehigher than grade level !
Did you seeour compass ?
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We then were ready to start buildingthe walls with superadobe.
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We got better and better every time !
Fill the bag up
Tie and place the bag
Tamp it !
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We used heavy duty plastic sheet toprevent ground moisture !
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Only nineteen more rows to go !
Check our door formsout
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This is what the other side looked like !
It is difficult to see,but there are two lines of barbed wire
between each row of bags !
At first, we used rocks tohold the barbed wire in place
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Slowly but steady.
But then, we got smarterand started filling plastic
bottles with sand andattached twine cord to them
to hold the barbed wire
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To save wood, we borrowed a few blocksto make our doors and windows forms.
There are nine windowsand four doors
Here forexample
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It was a lot of work, but finding solutions aschallenges showed up was stimulating !
No need for reinforcedconcrete lintels if we
use arcs
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After we finished the arcs, westarted with the plaster.
Yesthe plaster is
mostly dirt.
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We then removed the forms, plastered bothsides and started working on different details.
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Since our resources were limited, we had to usegalvanized metal sheets for our roof.
A skylight
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Our first reciprocal roof.I was close to brain meltdown
figuring out how to do it !
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Butit puts a smile in oureyes now !
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This is what it looks like afterthe second layer of plaster !
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Remember theother side ?
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The faade !
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Our cob benches on theentrance are almost ready !
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Stone workWine bottles
Bamboo
A footwashingbin
D
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AI
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KITCHEN-DINING
A. Window
B. Built-in shelves
C. Electricity
A
B
C
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KITCHEN-DINING
A. Main entrance
B. Door to bedroomB
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BEDROOM
A. Door to the kitchen
B. Built-in night table
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B
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BEDROOM
A. East windows
B. Built-in night table
B
A
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EXAMINATION ROOM
A. Door to kitchen
B. Built-in cabinets
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B
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BUILDING DOORSAND WINDOWS FORMS
Recycled pallets !
Start A bit higher Fan bags !Place the arc
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g g
Almost there ! Remove it ! Done !
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DETAILS
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Learning together
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Communal work
French friends
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We are almostthere !
Would you liketo help us ?
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..Be Humble, for you are made of earth,
Be Noble, for you are made of stars
Serbian proverb
GRACIAS
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and YOU,What do you dream about ?
Cato