Cumbres House: Digging to Build

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ASP Arquitectura [architects]

Contributor(s):

Portillo, Sergio [architect]

Material type:

Computer filePublication details: urbanNext, January 29, 2018.Description: 258 wordsISSN:

2575-5374

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Summary: 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.

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Compressed Stabilized Earth Blocks (5) ,
Soil (33) ,
Self-sufficient Housing (14) ,
Self-sufficiency (23) ,
Raw materials (35) ,
Project (1170) ,
Private housing (63) ,
Light (83) ,
Housing (336) ,
Footprint (8)

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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.

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