Thursday, January 31, 2008

Casita Linda presentation.

Some post-graduate students from the most prestigious design school in the U.S.A are in SMA and have thought up a new design for a group called Casita Lindas'(beautiful little house)houses.
The original design of Casita Linda's houses use forms and rebar to make a shell then pour the concrete into the form, however these students have found a new way to make sustainable and cheap houses.
This process that the students think should replace the current one is adobe which is a form of making a house with bricks of dirt and water.
To put those bricks together they use...MUD!
This new process creates a load of benefits for all of us here is a list of them:
1.It doesn't polute like regular bricks, which are fired by burning anything.
2.To have a brick that can be made at their homes and is held together by a mud and lime mix.
3.They can be made really easily.
4.it doesn't need rebar(metal reinforcement).
5.Lastly it doesn't need transportation, removing more air polution.
I'll tell you more when I know more.
Bye!

1 comment:

Tanya Breese said...

Wow, you are sure an interesting 10 year old! Is it scary living in a foreign country?

From New Zealand, living in Mexico! & I'm 13.