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What is Vernacular Construction

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Handbook of Research on Methods and Tools for Assessing Cultural Landscape Adaptation
Construction that uses ancestral experimental knowledge, usually slow, using local materials and adapted to regional characteristics.
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Construction Information Map: Support for Sustainable Architecture Projects in Developing Countries – Angola Case Study
Júlio Londrim Baptista (University of Beira Interior, Portugal), Jorge Tavares Ribeiro (University of Lisbon, Portugal), and Cristina Delgado Henriques (Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
Copyright: © 2018 |Pages: 23
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-4186-8.ch013
Abstract
All developing countries face a construction and serious housing problem, with deep economic and social consequences in the landscape. Promoting and implementing effective and rapid initiatives in rural areas to attract the population and keep them in their places of origin can solve this problem endorsing a reduction of the migration to urban areas. A digital research tool was developed with the purpose of illustrating the compatibility of local natural materials with global industrial technology, creating conditions for the development of versatile and locally sustainable building systems in rural areas of Angola. As a product of this research, a new map with construction information serves as a guiding database to support the sustainable architecture and construction project, which flexible structure allowing it to be used (with appropriate adaptation) in other developing countries.
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