Handmade House Ghana
A Poured Earth Workshop
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Beschreibung
Handmade House Ghana is a student run workshop which built a house using the local earth with the aim of removing the stigma associated with earth housing.
Handmade House Ghana was run over summer 2015. The aim of this student run workshop was to create a house using experimental methods that would allow everyone who took part to learn and take away new skills from the project, as well as removing the stigma associated with earth housing as a 'poor man's' building material. The house was built using the poured earth method, making this house the first in Ghana to have the primary structure entirely made using this technique.
With the help of a dedicated team of nine local workers and ten volunteers from around the world, we took the original design and altered it according to local social or climatic needs. The prototype house stands 40km east of Kumasi, and this book attempts to document the issues and construction sequence of the house. This book has been produced so that people in the future will not have to start from scratch but can draw from the knowledge provided here.
Autor*in
Louis Mayes
Louis Mayes is an Architecture student working and studying in London. He has a previous degree in the History of Architecture and was the workshop leader of the Handmade House Ghana project built over summer 2015.
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