{"id":9977,"date":"2011-12-10T08:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-10T08:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/?p=9977"},"modified":"2025-04-10T08:43:01","modified_gmt":"2025-04-10T08:43:01","slug":"building-week-a-week-of-loam-construction-in-addis-abeba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/building-week-a-week-of-loam-construction-in-addis-abeba\/","title":{"rendered":"Building Week: A week of loam construction in Addis Abeba"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"537\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/BWSS25_EARTHopia_quer-537x380.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/BWSS25_EARTHopia_quer-537x380.jpg 537w, https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/BWSS25_EARTHopia_quer-1024x724.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/BWSS25_EARTHopia_quer-212x150.jpg 212w, https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/BWSS25_EARTHopia_quer-768x543.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/BWSS25_EARTHopia_quer.jpg 1191w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 537px) 100vw, 537px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>We travel to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. While modern architecture dominates the cities, the rural areas are traditionally characterized by &#8220;tukuls&#8221; &#8211; round, simple loam houses. A contemporary reinterpretation of this construction method is being developed as part of the Building Week: The &#8220;Tukul 2.0&#8221; combines the traditional architecture of Ethiopia with rammed earth technologies known in Europe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> In collaboration with students from the School of Built Environment (formerly EiABC) at Addis Ababa University, prototypes will be created that enable a more robust, durable and yet simple construction method. The focus is on the intercultural exchange of knowledge between Ethiopian and German students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First orientation meeting: 7 May 2025, 3:00 PM, Bldg. 11.40 Room 26<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Excursion one week in the period 28.09.25 to 12.10.2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We travel to Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia. While modern architecture dominates the cities, the rural areas are traditionally characterized by &#8220;tukuls&#8221; &#8211; round, simple loam houses. A contemporary reinterpretation of this construction method is being developed as part of the Building Week: The &#8220;Tukul 2.0&#8221; combines the traditional architecture of Ethiopia with rammed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8IIze-2AV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9977"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9979,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9977\/revisions\/9979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nb.ieb.kit.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}