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Anna Heringer
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“All the buildings I'm doing are looking different because my architectural language is created out of this vulnerability...”
Anna Heringer (born 1977) wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“[[Mud|[M]ud]] is my... passion. Almost 3 billion people... are living in mud buildings... and it's so important to scale it up... [I]t's a material... everywhere available, that needs... labor, and... we need work for 7 billion people, and it doesn't... [emit] CO2. ...That's the perfect material that we need for the future. ...[W]e ...need ...to scale it up, and that's ...the topic of a new book ...I just wrote with Lindsey Blair Howe and Martin Rauch.”
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Recorded in: Ref: Anna Heringer, Lindsey Blair Howe, Martin Rauch, Upscaling Earth (2019) gta Verlag, Zurich.
“[O]ur current studio is dealing with the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh. ...Mud is often used in therapies... to overcome trauma... [W]hile the process... is forming community, it's healing... You feel powerful again, because... when you build the house, you feel empowered... [T]hat's... what we're trying... to contribute...”
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“A person who lives in a beautiful, unique environment with a strong , where she or he can actively participate, and find work in creating it, is [less] likely at risk to fall toward ideological fundamentalism in the search for meaning... [T]his kind of fundamentalism is... a danger in the camps. ...[T]hey have nothing to hold on, except their religion, and... have all this pain.., and that often comes out... in an agressive... movement.”
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“[T]he time of star architects is over, but... we need iconic buildings... that... give directions and shows some visions...”
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“I don't like symmetry much, but... in that project and... cultural context, the center was... very important, so I started to... go into this central and symmetric... meditation.”
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“I'm... working into... smaller scale... interior projects... with Martin Rauch... in Austria, in an interior courtyard.., the hangout area for the employees... with a high tech company.., and we brought in... low tech material...”
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“[M]artin [Rauch] and I... wanted to... do... the very basic building techniques.., the Butabu technique.., taking the wet clay and shaping it with your... hands... [W]e designed... and... built it.., like ceramics... these sausages, one layer after the other.., two stories.”
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“[T]his very basic building technique... is... almost unaffordable... in our economic system... Although... healthy for people.., for the planet, and it's creating jobs (so also healthy for the society), why... punished with a higher price? There's something wrong with our economic system..! [A] ... would set... the right balance again.”
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“[[Capitalism|[C]apitalism]] is... man-made. It's not a force of nature, and it's... time to change...”
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“[T]here is one sustainability, one approach.., that's a global one, because if something is exclusive.., just affordable for one part of the society or the world's population, then it can't.., on a social level, be sustainable.”
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“We are one planet.”
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“I work... looking at the local materials.., the local energy sources.., then adding global creativity...”
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“[[Creativity|[C]reativity]] know-how should not be limited to one place. That should be coming in from a global scale and... applied to local conditions.”
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“I always use... the technique of "claystorming"..: [projects] designed... on large clay models. ...We think ...how may square meters, how much volume.., and then we start shaping it.”
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“[T]he process is just as important as the outcome... [I]n former times, communities, cities were coming together creating.., building.., a church, a school... [etc.,] and that... united the , because you cannot build... alone. You have to come together... to manage large scale projects... [T]his is a... powerful element that we have lost in our societies... (given away to contractors), and... something... we have to gain back.”
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“So we decided... We built the altar out of mud. ...[T]he whole community is coming together to build it. ...And then the ramming started. ...The people started to bring in their own elements ...[S]omeone ...said, "Oh, I'm from France, and I was a soldier in Algeria, and my mother gave me that... amulet in... war time and it protected me..." ...The [homesick] Indian nuns ...brought a piece of Indian earth ...putting it in ... [and] starting to cry. So... earth is much more than a building material. It's... an emotional element...”
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“[[Children|[K]ids]] were coming in... from all over the world... mixing the mud... their hands in the mud... and... stamping their feet in the formwork.”
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“The priest.., in the beginning... wasn't... sure about this project.., but then he found in the Bible a quote where Moses, when he received the Ten Commandments.., received the... direct order how to build the altar.., "It should be made out of mud.”
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“We're not lacking of materials, but what we are lacking is relationships... and meaning. ...That is ...the symbol of the altar. It brings us back... to the essence... [W]hat really matters is... relationships and meaning.”
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“That picture is... very important.., this alpha and omega... [T]o truly build sustainable we have to... embed the Omega. When we design buildings and objects, we should... design how it can go back to the ground, to... nature again.”
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“[T]he most important thing... in my work is raising trust... in their own potentials.., [Y]ou can... get rid of the strife.., ego. Leave space... for intuition... [Y]ou have everything inside. You don't need... plotters, programs... [etc.] We're getting so... [dependent]. ...[W]e need creativity.., intuition, and we have to give [them] space to... create... surprising architecture.”
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“[[Trust|[T]rust]] is... important... [to] bring participation into our projects... [W]e have to compromise sometimes in perfection, but it brings back... meaning and relationship.., important in our society...”
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“[[Trust|[T]rust]] in the [beautiful] local materials all around us... [W]e... need to use them... to create a planet that is also there for the .”
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“500 years ago we were able to do this, so with all our technology... there are no limitations. It's a wide field open for innovation, because... mud architecture has not been much discovered yet. ...I hope ...colleagues join me in... pushing... forward.”
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“[[Architecture|[A]rchitecture]] is a [very powerful] tool to improve lives...”
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“[I]n the end of my career.., adding up all the building budgets.., I want to be able to tell myself that... the money... ended up with , with craftsmen, and not just in big pockets of... some industries, and... that I contributed to social justice, to cultural diversity, and I'm not leaving scars, but a garden behind.”
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“[W]e should use... [architecture] with all the creativity that we have, with all our sensitiveness and... love... to make this place, the world.., better, more beautiful and more humane...”
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“I had never seen s before. ...[I]t's weird to make walls that are completely sealed, that cannot breath. ...In winter you have to plug in these instruments. You need a lot of electricity to get... a that... is comfortable, while... my is my mud wall at home... It's completely automatic, and it's much more healthy. ...I'm living not in a total load bearing mud house, because I'm living in a 500 year old house. So I did a lot... inside... So there's a lot of hybrid versions also possible.”
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“The foundation is the only thing where it would make sense to get [commercial] material. ...[T]he regulations in the camp are that there should be no lasting material there. So... you have to make foundations, which a lot of houses in Bangladesh... have, also some 2-story houses. It's not that strong.., but... it's possible. It's doable. It just needs to be... a thick rammed earth foundation, and... the walls also have to be comparatively thick.”
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“I... grew up.. surrounded by an architecture that is... archaic... and... born out of the material... from that region.”
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“It was fantastic to grow up, [to have] as a... playground... these gothic... vault systems.., and the lines... built out of the local stones... That was... the... tools and the toys that we had... growing up...”
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“The tradition, the culture of this place... as a shaping element is... dominant.., and... raised an interest... in other parts of the world.., to see this from another perspective. That's why I went from to Bangladesh.., a completely different cultural context.., to see... how... local traditions... with local resources... is shaping architecture.., and... the search of people on their way to happiness.., the aim, to... reach a life... in balance with nature...”
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“[T]here is a lot of similarity between the life... anywhere... It's always, what existing resources... you have, and how can you use... creativity to make the best out of it? ...[T]hat's what I'm trying to do with my architecture.”
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“How... get together and... build something together.., and this identity... linked with that, and this pride when you stand... in front of that church and say.., "We built it," and that ... created... [T]his is something... we have to incorporate... It's not just about the outcome and the architecture, but... designing the process...”
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“[I]n any project... I'm trying to bring in this notion... that... the community gets together and gets their hands involved in the building process... [T]hen... if you stand in front of that building, you... feel an extreme trust in your own potentials and... in the team, the community, and in the local resources...”
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“If you have strong roots, then it's much easier to go away and discover new horizons.”
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“I'm... an , but I'm also a development worker.., an activist, and... there's this creative itching in me... [I]f I see a need somewhere, and... a potential, then it might, Zing! and then something is coming out...”
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“I'm trying to use the creativity, always as a tool to improve lives.”
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“[W]hen I start a project... I try to figure out what are the resources available... in terms of materiality.., energy sources, and... know-how, craft skills... [etc.] [I]t's essential that the materials... [and] energy sources are local.., particularly... human labor.., a wonderful source of energy. Whenever we think of alternative sources of energy, we think of solar, wind... [etc.,] but... the human energy is... important, and... if we don't use it, then we create a social problem. So this... is the most important energy source...”
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“Materials... coming from far away... needs a lot of transportation, and... it's not needed [i.e., necessary]. We have fantastic building materials all around.”
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“[[Sustainability|[S]ustainability]] is... harmony with nature, with the sociocultural context, [and] with the (the users). ...[I]t's ...doing things with love and care, and not just ...on a formal level [to] solve a problem... [[Beauty|[B]eauty]]... is an expression of love and... sustainability is a synonym of beauty.”
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“[T]here is some activism... in... the sign, "Less more Earth"... [W]e just can't continue building as we do. It's... just not working.”
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“In Bangladesh the cheapest solution is also the sustainable one. You just take the dirt from the ground and... build it with your hands. If you do this... in Europe, it's damned expensive! ...[T]hat makes me angry.”
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“[I]t's not a problem of the mud... or earthen architecture, but... a problem with our economic system. ...[W]e have to readjust our system and... have a higher price on materials that have... high embodied... energy s... and [that] create a lot of carbon emissions. So we... have to tax those, and... decrease the taxes on human labor... [T]hat would completely change our economic system... [and] our social system. ...[I]t would not just make a few people rich, but... would... make... a strong middle , and really build up ...”
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“[W]e have one planet, and we should... design... [accordingly.] [W]e are one humankind, and just because I could afford... to build... with a lot of resources... steel.., carbon emissions.., , I shouldn't.., because it's... using up more resources than... persons... visiting this opera... should... consume.”
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“[W]henever I'm designing, I... have... in mind... times 7 billion.., considering what would the world look like if... 7.5 billion people would do it in the same way.”
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“If you use that bucket of paint.., it's maybe just a bucket of paint, but if 7 billion people are using that paint that is... harming the groundwater... No, I don't have the right to use that paint, and that's... my approach...”
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“It was just dirt, and you just pile it somehow into a wall, but... mud was not considered to be equal to brick or... ... It was just a temporary, dirty solution. ...[T]he most important part was... to show that... with good [design and] craftsmanship, you can really... improve the quality of houses...”
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“[A] good looking architecture is not enough. ...[I]t ...has to bring meaning to the people, and... add... to a healthy planet... [T]hat's what I'm trying to do with the work.”
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