Culture, cash and housing: community and tradition in low-income building
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1992
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| Beschreibung: | XIII, 130 S. Ill., zahlr. graph. Darst., Kt. 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 1853391530 |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
List of Illustrations vii
Preface ix
Introduction xi
PART I Theory
1 Why we Build 3
2 Choice of Building Design 12
Traditional Building: Vernacular Architecture 12
Change 33
The Role of Government in Shelter Provision 54
PART II Practice
3 Guidelines for Development Workers and Agencies 70
4 Experience in the Field 77
Low-Income Building in Kenya 77
Low-Income Building in the Himalayas (a) Bhutan 93
(b) Nepal 95
Low-Income Building in West Africa (a) The Gambia 99
(b) Ghana 101
Low-Income Building in Southern Africa (a) Zambia 103
(b) Zimbabwe 106
Low-Income Building in Caribbean and Belize (a) St. Vincent 108
(b) Belize 109
Low-Income Building in the Pacific (a) Fiji 111
(b) Vanuatu 113
5 A Checklist for Community-Based Builders 116
Appendix: Designing, Building and Testing Prototypes 121
Postscript: Lessons for us All? 124
Bibliography 126
ILLUSTRATIONS
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Figure 1. Traditional two-storey house in a hot humid climate 16
Figure 2. Modified traditional two-storey house in a hot humid climate,
Ghana, 1972 17
Figure 3. Terraced house in a composite climate, China, 1989 18
Figure 4. Stone vaulted tomb house in the Atlas mountains of Morocco 19
Figure 5. Construction of a rammed earth wall in the Draa valley of
Morocco, 1968 20
Figure6. Traditional house in the Asir mountains ofSaudi Arabia, 1980 21
Figure 7. Court house, Bamenda, Cameroon, built in the bungalow
style, photographed in 1988 22
Figure 8. Thatched, oak framed house with wattle panels at Singleton
Open Air Museum, United Kingdom 23
Figure 9. Sawyers at work reducing fags to planks in Thanh Hoa,
northern Vietnam, 1990 24
Figure 10. Unusual homestead, Toritregion, Southern Sudan, 1977 25
Figure 11. Traditional Mundari homestead (house and granary), Torit
region, Southern Sudan, 1977 26
Figure 12. Diagram of the cultural symbolism of a Dogon village layout
(representing the world egg) 27
Figure 13. Traditional rammed earth houses in the Draa valley of
Morocco, 1974 31
Figure 14. Diagram showing the effect of change on the fit between built
form and context 34
Figure 15. Diagram showing the choice of earth-based building materials
available from a given soil 40
Figure 16. Diagram showing the relationship between choice of earth-
based walling material and availability of fuel and stabilizer 41
Figure 17. Section through brickmaking shed built of round pole timber,
Southern Sudan, 1976 43
Figure 18. Brickmaking shed constructed of round pole timber, Juba,
Southern Sudan, 1976 43
Figure 19. Thatched traditional house alongside a modified traditional
house with imported corrugated iron roofs, Cameroon, 1988 45
Figure 20. The earth mosque at Mopti, Mali, 1971 46
Figure 21. Section through house built of round pole timber, stone and
thatch, Juba, Southern Sudan, 1976 47
Figure 22. House constructed of round pole timber, thatch and stone,
Juba, Southern Sudan, 1976 48
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Figure 23. The farmer s house: extended family accommodation with some
recently added lean-to general rental rooms attached in
Ashaiman, Ghana, 1974 49
Figure 24. The locksmith s house: rental accommodation for nuclear
families in a courtyard house in Ashaiman, Ghana, 1974 50
Figure 25. John Wayne patrolling the streets of Accra . A drawing by a
Ghanaian schoolboy, 1974 52
Figure 26. Diagram showing how the embryo local grass roots co-operative
structure develop in parallel with the official structure first
received house building finance from the Ghanaian Government
(1970) 58
Figure 27. Diagram showing the developed co-operative housing structure
linking official with grass roots organizations 59
Figure 28. Diagram of the effect of building regulations on house form in
Saudi Arabia 64
Figure 29. Map of Muka Mukuu, Kenya 78
Figure 30. Andy Bennett and James Kitonyi building teachers
accommodation at Muka Mukuu Farmers Co-operative in
Thika, Kenya 79
Figure 31. Muka Mukuu building training certificate 80
Figure 32. A blockmaking project in Suhum District, Ghana 83
Figure 33. Simon Muinde and his house 84
Figure 34. Action Pack block press made by Makiga Engineering works 89
Figure 35. Action-aid information sheet on Action Pack block press 90
Figure 36. Action-aid information sheet on FCR tiles 91
Figure 37. Micro-concrete roofing tiles and stabilized earth blocks in
Tulsipur, Nepal 97
Figure 38. The Kasapa Brick Co-operative in Zambia 104
Figure 39. A large round house being built at Neshuro, Mwenezi
District, Zimbabwe 107
Figure 40. Diagram of prototype development used for VSO training
courses 122
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