The Art Of Earth Architecture In Iran
Architecture, Design, and Culture using of mud, clay, soil, dirt & dust
Earthen buildings come in a vast variety of shapes and
sizes, made from materials like fired clay, compressed dirt and a
mixture of clay, sand, straw and water. People have been using various
forms of earth to build structures for centuries.
Iranian architecture displays great variety, both structural
and aesthetic, developing gradually and coherently out of earlier
traditions and experience. Currently it is estimated that one half of
the world's population approximately three billion people on six
continents lives or works in buildings constructed of earth and while
the vast legacy of traditional and vernacular earthen construction has
been widely discussed, little attention has been paid to the
contemporary tradition of earth architecture. It is a renewable building
material that is simply borrowed from the earth for the life of the
building and can be recycled indefinitely as a building material or
returned to the earth.
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