Local building traditions meet new sustainable concepts

Locally-manufactured cob and bamboo school building

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.
 
 
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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                   emadhanee@gmail.com
                   http://emadhani.blogspot.com/
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