K-State Research Exchange: Re-conceiving Afghan cellular architecture for the reconstruction of rural schools

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Title:	Re-conceiving Afghan cellular architecture for the reconstruction of rural schools
Authors:	Watts, Donald J. Yoldas, Cenk
Publication Date:	2004
Type:	Conference paper
Conference Name:	Ninth conference of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Environments (IASTE), Sharjah / Dubai, United Arab Emirates, December, 2004.
Volume:	168
Publisher:	Center for Environmental Design Research, University of California at Berkeley
Permissions:	Permission granted by Sophie Gonick, IASTE Coordinator, April 7 2009
Keywords:	Afghanistan Architecture Schools Compressed brick Vernacular transformation
Abstract:	Afghanistan suffers from a quarter century of war that has resulted in a devastated infrastructure and a generation of Afghans who have lived without a local school. This paper presents an architectural design investigation that seeks ways of synthesizing traditional social-cultural and formalspatial attributes with refined material and construction capabilities becoming increasingly available worldwide. In the spirit of George Kubler's thesis of invention and variation, stabilized compressed brick construction and computer aided structural analysis are introduced as refinements within the Afghan building tradition.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2097/1318
Appears in Collections:	Architecture and Afghanistan Faculty Research

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