Local building traditions meet new sustainable concepts

Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building

Elevation west. (Photo: Roswag Architekten)

Ground floor classroom. (Photo: Roswag Architekten)

First floor porch. (Photo: Roswag Architekten)

Project update 2012 - "Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building, Jar Maulwi": The new school structure is not only a low-cost and energy-saving alternative to brick and...

Project update 2012 - "Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building, Jar Maulwi": Corner detail of bamboo structure: The façade of the light bamboo frame construction of the...

Project update 2012 - "Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building, Jar Maulwi": Constructing the ceiling: Instead of using timber or steel beams the massive roof is fully...

Project update 2012 - "Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building, Jar Maulwi": Layered and modulated walls. Ground floor is built out of massive 60 cm-thick cob walls:...

Winners of the Holcim Awards Gold 2011 Asia Pacific for "Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building, Jar Maulwi, Pakistan" (l-r): Eike Roswag, Ziegert Roswag Seiler...

Project entry 2011 "Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building, Jar Maulwi": Location of the earthen school on the existing TSM campus.

Project entry 2011 "Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building, Jar Maulwi": Ongoing construction works of cob walls: March 2011.

Project entry 2011 "Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building, Jar Maulwi": Research on traditional local building culture.

Project entry 2011 "Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building, Jar Maulwi": Adaptation to existing.

Project entry 2011 "Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building, Jar Maulwi": Heavy-light constructions.

Project entry 2011 "Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building, Jar Maulwi": Earth and bamboo.

Project entry 2011 "Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building, Jar Maulwi": Earth is conditioning climate.

Project entry 2011 "Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building, Jar Maulwi": The ceiling was developed 1:1.

Project entry 2011 "Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building, Jar Maulwi": Cob: a basic building technique.

Project entry 2011 "Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building, Jar Maulwi": Detailed building descriptions.

Project entry 2011 "Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building, Jar Maulwi": Team picture.

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This school project in the small village of Jar Maulwi, 35km northwest of Lahore, is an extension of the existing Tipu Sultan Merkez School, which has provided education for underprivileged rural girls for more than ten years.

The new two-story building will provide seven new classrooms. The building was completed in March 2013 and is made from locally-sourced cob and bamboo. The structure is divided into two compact parts connected by a light gallery to mitigate earthquake risk.

 Local building traditions meet new sustainable concepts

Updated on Tuesday · Taken in Pakistan

This earthquake-resistant school made out of earth and bamboo is now completed and will give rural Pakistani girls a chance for education.

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Dr. EMAD HANI ISMAEEL

 

                 Ph.D. in Technologies for the Exploitation

                 of the Built Heritage .

                 Senior Lecturer in the Dept. of Architecture

                 College of Engineering , University of Mosul 

                 Mosul - Iraq .

 

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