Main goals of the project:
To desing, and build a straw bale prototype model for a Health Care Centre. Using local materials and a community workshop in order to build the elements of the project:
Ferro cement water tank for rain water harvesting 10,000 litres capacity
manual water pump
Dry composting toilet,built out of PET botles walls, rammed earh, and traditional techniques.
straw bale non structural prototype module of 64 m2 designed following the standards of Secretaria de Salud del Estado de México
Location
comunidad de tierra blanca
jiquipilco, Mexico Mexico
Project posted by juan m casillas pintor
- Affordable/Cost-effective
- Context - Rural
- Energy - Efficiency
- Energy - Renewable
- Green Design/ Practices
- Health Clinic
- Healthcare
- Materials - Alternate
- Materials - Environmentally Sensitive
- Materials - Local/Indigenous
- Materials - Reused/Recycled
- Materials - Traditional
- Self-Help/Volunteer Construction
- Solar - Passive
- Mexico
Comments
kindly view my proposals on a similar project :
http://openarchitecturenetwork.org/node/708
kindly experience : http://www.sulabhinternational.org/st/community_toilet_linked_biogas_pan...
all the best for your project
Dr.Peter Riefenthaler
excellent : reused plastic bottles & wasted tires
all the best for the straw bale community who may leading us into the future :
Jaime Maussan : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgOpfB_kUGY&list=UUGgxGvHXG2UA2kIMYD5ygDg...