Sustainable Hollow Super Adobe

PrizeSilver in Architectural Design / Green architecture
CompanyEbrahimi Associate
University/Schoolislamic azad university of najafabad
Projecthttp://

Hollow Superadobe (sandbag, barbed wire and prefabricated pipes) system is a large, long adobe with prefabricated pipes spread on it. It is a simple adobe, an instant and flexible line generator. It uses the materials of war for peaceful ends, integrating traditional earth architecture with contemporary global safety requirements. Long or short sandbags are filled with on-site earth and arranged in layers or long coils (compressions) with stands of barbed wire placed between them to act as both mortar and reinforcement (tension). Stabilizers such as cement, lime, or asphalt emulsion may be added. It can be applied for different functions like educational, residential, remedial and etc. but in this project we consider it for educational spaces in the rural and bereaved regions with moderate climate like some parts of Africa which cannot afford expensive and luxurious buildings for educational purposes. We mix this system with Ab-Anbar, is an ancient means of water preservations and cooling through an underground building structure, towards sustainable and zero-energy architecture. During the rainy days, water from raining gather in the water bowl and plummet to Ab-Anbar, during this process turbine starts to turning and making electricity in the generator. When the raining stops or in the dry day’s suction dynamo suck the water and sending it back to water bowl through outlet duct (1/5 of electricity produced with turbine spent for suction dynamo and 4/5 can be used in building) so with this system (hollow Superadobe) mixed with Ab-Anbar we can build sustainable, reasonable furthermore beautiful spaces for educating children’s in the poor and bereaved regions of world.