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Category: Arches Vaults Domes

The monumentality and geometric wonder of EARTH

Popular in almost all historic buildings of the ancient world are arches, vaults and domes – and we have the Romans to thank for it ! The forms they used to span basilicas, baths and aqueducts centuries ago, as been abandoned and replaced with steel and cement intensive.

Today, these forms are proving to be an eco-friendly alternative to conventional Reinforced Cement Concrete, that can span large spaces while giving monumental character. This labour intensive is a display of masonry craftsmanship at its best!

6 comments on Stars in mud mortar

Stars in mud mortar

Then came Kali, he gave me a hundred kisses on my cheek, I hugged him and did not let him go. He was excited. He was one of those to whom the school belonged. I had been waiting on the rope bed for one of my friends to ask for a brick or some mortar. […]

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2015 Build the Cuckoo School, 2015 Cuckoo Forest School, Adobe, Arches Vaults Domes, Blog, Workshops
July 20, 2015October 24, 2017
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Clay Clan and Cuckoo

Together with Cuckoo Movement for children and Varun Thautam

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2015 Build the Cuckoo School, 2015 Cuckoo Forest School, Adobe, Arches Vaults Domes, Blog, Workshops
July 20, 2015October 24, 2017
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