Cumbres House: Digging to Build
Cumbres House: Digging to Build
- urbanNext, January 29, 2018.
- 258 words.
ASP Arquitectura Sergio Portillo, Designing Matter, Energy and sustainability, Low Density, Project, Technology and fabrication
Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks, Connections, Ecological footprint, Energetic Approach, Fluid space, Fluidity, Footprint, Housing, Light, Private housing, Project, Raw materials, Self-sufficiency, Self-sufficient Housing, Soil, Technological Approach
This singular project, located in a housing development in Mexico City, takes the earth as the unifying element by benefitting from the rich soils underneath to produce compressed earth blocks (CEB), thus generating the construction material from the own excavation, avoiding all the transport process.
2575-5374
Architecture Mexico City, Mexico Mexico
ASP Arquitectura Sergio Portillo, Designing Matter, Energy and sustainability, Low Density, Project, Technology and fabrication
Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks, Connections, Ecological footprint, Energetic Approach, Fluid space, Fluidity, Footprint, Housing, Light, Private housing, Project, Raw materials, Self-sufficiency, Self-sufficient Housing, Soil, Technological Approach
This singular project, located in a housing development in Mexico City, takes the earth as the unifying element by benefitting from the rich soils underneath to produce compressed earth blocks (CEB), thus generating the construction material from the own excavation, avoiding all the transport process.
2575-5374
Architecture Mexico City, Mexico Mexico