vide terra - superadobe italia
earth architecture, design and research. building, consulting and teaching about sustainability in buildings.
Vide Terra spreads the knowledge about earth building mainly through workshops. We facilitate and coordinate the realization of participatory earth projects
Built with Superadobe:
A community center built for and with Yazidi community inside the Berseve 2 refugee camp in the Kurdish part of Iraq.
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Curious to know more about earth building?
Read the articles:
why to build with earth?
The energy efficiency of a house depends greatly on the materials it is built of, on its design and on how it is used. The earth has a great thermal inertia, which combined with the thickness of the walls and an appropriate solar design can create a very well performing house of a fairly constant temperature inside the house...READ MORE
why domes are amazing?
An arch spinning around its vertical axis creates a dome. A dome distributes the load equally and transfers the forces along the wall engaging the full section. The shell structures, even if very thin, can be very resistant. In particular the shell structures are optimized shapes which can achieve maximum strength with minimum amount of material...READ MORE
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