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Anna Heringer
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“[T]here are a lot of resources given by nature for free, and all that we need is our sensitivity to see them, and our creativity to use them.”
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“When I was an architecture student about 13 years ago, I went to Bangladesh, to a remote village called Rudrapur with the aim to design and build a school as my thesis project. I had lived in that village before when I was 19, and a volunteer at Dipshikha, a Bangladeshi NGO for rural development... [W]hat I had learned from them was that the most sustainable strategy for... development was to cherish and to use your... own resources and potential and not get dependent on external factors... [T[his is what I tried to do with my architecture, as well.”
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“In terms of suitable building materials for my school, I didn't have to look far. They were right under my feet: mud, dirt, earth, clay, however you call it, and bamboo that was growing all around.”
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“Electricity in remote Bangladesh is rare, but we didn't need it. We had human energy, and people were happy to have the work. Tools were an issue too, but we had... water buffaloes. We had also tried it with cows, but interestingly, they were too intelligent. They were always stepping in the holes of the previous round. They wouldn't mix the mud, the , the sand, which are the ingredients in the walls.”
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“[E]xcept a small team of consultants like my partner for realization, Eike Roswag and my... cousin, Emmanuel, it was... built... [by] craftsmen from the village.”
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“[T]he METI school after 6 months of construction... load-bearing earth walls that really ground the school and large bamboo structures that bring the lightness in. ...The classroom on the ground floor, attached are the caves ...for reading, for snuggling, for solo work, for meditation, for playing, and the classroom on the top.”
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“The children all signed... the doors. ...[T]hey ...helped building the school.”
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“[C]an you imagine the feeling of a small boy or a girl, or an illiterate day-laborer standing in front of that school building.., knowing that you built this out of the ordinary bamboo and... the dirt underneath your feet, using nothing but your hands? That gives such an enormous boost of trust and confidence in yourself and the community, and in the material.”
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“[[Mud|[M]ud]] has a very poor image. When we think of mud, we think of dirt. It's ugly, it's nondurable, and this is the image I want to change.”
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“[I]t's the 11th rainy season for the school now, really harsh, horizontal rains, and the walls are standing strong.”
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“[H]ow does that work? First rule, a good foundation that keeps the wall dry from the ground, and second rule, a good that protects from the top. The third rule, control. Mud walls need speed breakers... so that the rainwater cannot run down the wall fast... [T]hese speed breakers can be lines of bamboo, or stones, or mixed into the mud. Just like a hill needs trees or rocks in order to prevent erosion, it works just the same way.”
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“[P]eople always ask me if I have to add to the mud, and the answer is no. There is no stabilizer [in], no coating on these walls, only in the foundation.”
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“[I]f... [the wall] needs repairing it is really easy to do. You just take the broken part, make it wet.., put it back on the wall and it will look the same as before. I wish that would work on me too.”
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“[T]he great thing is, if an earth wall is not needed anymore, it can go back to the ground it came from, turn into a garden or get fully recycled without any loss of quality. There is no other material that can do this, and this is why mud is so excellent in terms of environmental performance.”
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“What about economic sustainability? When we built the school, I practically lived on the construction site, and in the evening I used to go with the workers to the market... I could see how they spent their money... [T]hey would buy vegetables from their neighbors... [T]hey would get a new haircut, or a new blouse from the tailor. ...Because the main part of the building budget was spent on craftsmanship, the school wasn't just a building. It became a real catalyst for local development, and that made me happy.”
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“If I had designed the school in and steel, this money would have been exported and lost for those families.”
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“The building budget... was 35,000 Euros (it's probably double by now) and this is a lot of money for that region.., especially because this money is working within the community, and rotating fast, and not on the stock market.”
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“So when it comes to economic sustainability of my project, my main question is, "Who gets the profit?”
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“[A]pproximately 3 billion people all around the planet are living in earth houses, and it is a traditional building material in Europe, just as much as in Africa.”
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“Strangely enough, mud is not considered worthy of being studied at universities, so I brought the dirt to Harvard... precisely 60 tons of dirt right in front of the main of the Graduate School of Design. ...[I]t was particularly fascinating to see how many people were touching the wall... [W]e usually don't go around our cities caressing our façades, right? ...In terms of awareness-building and... education it was like trigger point.”
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“In more and more countries... load bearing earthen structures are not allowed to be built anymore, although they are traditional and have lasted for 100s of years, and not because the material is weak, but because there are no s and s who know how to deal with that material.”
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“So education on all levels, for craftsmen, engineers and architects, is... strongly needed. Equally important is technological development, like developed by my colleague, Martin Rauch.., an Austrian artist and expert in earthen structures... [H]e has created technologies for... prefabrication of elements (that include , wall heatings and coolings, and... electrical fittings) that can be layered ...[for] multistorey buildings... [T]his can be important in order to scale up and... [speed] up the process... like in the Ricola Herb Center in Switzerland.”
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“[W]e need... projects that prove you can build with an ancient material in a very modern way. It is not a matter [of] how old the material is. It's a matter of our creative ability to use it today.”
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“These... are 3 hostels that I did in China... in the village Baoxi... The outside shape is woven bamboo, and the inside core is stones and ... [I]t is a traditional . Even large parts of the have been built with rammed earth, but it's getting replaced by , and this trend is happening very fast.”
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Recorded in: Ref: 1) Three Hostels in Baoxi, a village in China @anna-heringer.com 2) YouTube video, International Bamboo Architecture Biennale China (Longquan) @StudioAnnaHeringer channel. 3) 2016 International Bamboo Architecture …
“Within only a couple of years China has consumed more cement than the United States in the entire 20th century.”
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“This trend of replacing natural building materials with materials... that are energy intensive, and that emit CO2 is... clearly contributing to climate change... [W]e have alternatives, such as mud, stones, timber, bamboo, earth, that are totally effective options for all sorts of purposes.”
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“Mud is healthy for the planet, but also for the human bodies, and the material is low-tech, but the performance is high-tech.., the earth walls... naturally regulating moisture... [T]his wall in our own home is our . We love our 6 tons of dirt at home, not only because it's healthy and sustainable. It's archaic warmth is touching deep within.”
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“My personal dream is to build a mud skyscraper right in Manhattan... [T]his dream isn't so crazy if you think of the mud city of in Yemen that was built in the 16th century, and has lasted now for 500 years. What was possible that long ago is possible today as well, and we can apply all our technical know-how to... these ancient materials, so that it meets our needs and our dreams.”
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“All around us, and just below our feet, are wonderful natural building materials. Let's use them! ...I deeply believe our homes, our work spaces, our cities would become more healthy and sustainable, and more humane and beautiful.”
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“For me, in this field of work, which is mainly in Asia or Africa..., emancipation is very important, that one imparts knowledge and empowers people for self-construction, or to improve what they know.”
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“[I]t's perfectly fine if my buildings eventually end up on the compost heap, but what is wanted is that the knowledge remains, that one can simply rebuild it better... My passion for development... is... strong. My passion for architecture and business is... the fantastic link between development and... architectural design.”
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“[[w:Earth structure|[T]his material]] is... healthy for people, for the environment.., for the society because it creates jobs, and... it's beautiful. ...That's where my motivation to work with it comes from.”
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“[W]e need many more resources, but also a way for people to see a real march of knowledge. ...[I]t's important that you can buy things as an architect, but... we need to know much more about new open-source resources so that , even those without financial means, can access those...”
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“Life has a good future, especially when the CO2 tax comes...”
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“Life has a chance if ...human labor is... valued... but we have to fight for it...”
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“If the economic system does not support this construction method that is socially just, ecological.., healthy, then this economic system has to be changed, because capitalism is not a force of nature. It is created by humans, and we can always abolish it.”
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“[W]hat I had learned during my year in Bangladesh was that the most sustainable and... effective strategy for development, is to... look at the potentials... existing and try to make the best out of it.., not... depending on external factors... [S]even years later I tried to transform this philosophy into architecture.”
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“[I]n terms of materials.., what was there was just below my feet.., the mud, the dirt, and the bamboo... growing all around... [I]n terms of energy, it was the .., happy to have opportunities [working] on the school.”
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“I wanted to show what you can do out of... local, basic materials; that it's not only possible to build small, dark s, but... also large structures.”
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“[W]hen you... deal with... archaic notions.., it doesn't make a difference between a n child and a Bangladeshi child...”
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“The children all signed with their names on the doors... as authors, because... every afternoon they were on the site helping us building. ...[T]hat's a very humane notion, that... even if you're small and... weak, you want to be part of the real life. ...You want to be needed.”
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“[[Mud|[M]ud]] ...is a very inclusive material. ...It is just ceramics in a slightly different scale. ...[I]t's a wonderful material to play... and... build with, and the children felt extremely empowered.”
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“[T]he third rule is , so just as a hill needs rocks or trees... to slow... the pace of the water.., the wall needs... on a bigger level.., speed breakers... on the , and... on the micro level you have... , and... if... you have stones... so that the façade is... self-healing. They are extremely strong and there is no in it except in the foundation.”
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“I felt more like a conductor... when I could give space to the craftsmen to bring in their own ideas, and I could just moderate... and then I knew when I had to step in and take the lead again... [I]t was a... dynamic... and participatory [process].”
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“[T]he biggest learning experience is the things that don't turn out the way you want...”
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“The entire top floor had to be replaced because I had no idea as a Bavarian what is good bamboo and what [is] not. ...[T]he super nice, green, fresh, sugary bamboo ...was a big party for the beetles...”
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“Vulnerability is part of life. ...[[Decay|[D]ecay]] is... normal... Hindus... build their cottages every year out of mud, out of clay, and they return it to the water every year, while we build everything in gold, and in the most durable materials... The holy statues... go into the water in the cycle every year. ...That's something we can ...learn from ...”
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“We're always thinking... we have to build for eternity. ...But ...much more important is the know-how that we're leaving behind. ...I'm really ok if my buildings go back to nature one day ...I really don't think that I'm so important that my buildings have to stand forever. ...If they're needed they will be rebuilt, and the know-how will be passed on from one generation to the next. ...[T]hat's the important thing, that we ...build and create knowledge, and not just waste.”
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“The core problem of sustainability is how we deal with the fear of decay and death... [T]hat's... something, especially in our society, a big taboo, but... death is a part of nature, and that's just something we have to respect.”
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“[[Vulnerability|[V]ulnerability]]... in the beginning... was difficult to deal with.., but... it is a... source of creativity, because... every material... plus every is different... and the materials are vulnerable towards the climate... The mud is water resolvable... It's vulnerable, so I have to change my architectural language, and... tailor it... [T]hat gives two great s, the climate and... local materials... and the byproduct is.. authentic and... unique architecture...”
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