AFRICAN ARCHITECTURE & MUD HOUSES COULD BE A GAME CHANGER!
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
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It is time to wake up the sleeping giant in Africa, tap into our culture & let our ingenuity shine. African's have a real opportunity to tap into African architecture especially mud houses to provide affordable housing, & communities that help provide a decent & inexpensive living to our people. Cement boxes in the name of housing & real estate market are just not sustainable.
Let me know what you think in the comment section.
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After all these years of stereotypes of mud structures being called “primitive”, people finally figure out the effectivity
Africans are rebuilding and we know how we have been conditioned to believe that what we have is primitive while people take advantage of that and benefit themselves. We want change and we are committed to changing the narrative.
@@mudhouses Exactly, I love everything eco friendly. I even want to make my own mud structure as my home 😊
Most of the buildings built in Ancient Egypt were built with mud brick.
Even the pyramids they can't tell us how we built them but if the descendants of the culture (black Afrikan people) would be able to study the. I'm sure we would soon figure it out
Even the word primitive gives validation that we are the first (prime) and original
I know of one African architect who has returned to indigenous methods and materials: Francis Kere of Burkina Faso has earned international awards and recognition.
Cement is not as eco-friendly. Africans need to embrace their culture/heritage The West won't tell you that you were ahead of your time, but you were -- they are copying these techniques now and remarketing them as if they are new.
I am a Black American who has been wanting to learn how to build this way, but the workshops are costly here in the US.
Same. Would love to work under someone proficient in these techniques
Have a look at the book ‘The Masons Of Djenne’. God bless, from the whitest of the white Irish man 😜
I am from Benue State in Nigeria and currently split time in Oakland, California so the clip of the US with it's shanty towns is very close to where I stay when in the US. It's taken me 15 years to get a viable business going in Benue and have recently been looking into using earth or locally sourced materials for building projects. I am a structural engineer by profession so this video really spoke to me. Thank you for sharing this with us. Breaking the colonial mentality is something I've found to be the biggest challenge for us. Realizing there's nothing wrong with us and nothing amazingly special about the West. Both can be mutually beneficial to each other as we on the continent begin to slowly awaken from our slumber
True, I think the conditioning of the mind is something powerful and one thing I have learnt over the years as I start to seek out this knowledge is that no one taught me all this is school. Getting literature or specializations in African education systems that cater to its culture is not really an option. Its like we are prepared to be the perfect labours who end up benefiting the a lot of western societies. I think there is room for some people to venture into that route but there is a huge gap in preparing the younger generation to understand indigenous knowledge and build on it. As an engineer, have you easily been able to get indigenous courses or established professionals in your field who focus solely on this type of work? I keen on making more videos in this area for education purposes and if you have any resources you can share that would be great.
@@mudhouses My dear friend, my university training was in the West, Berkeley, to be exact and though there are many individuals that have experience with rammed earth, straw bale, cobb, and various alternative practices, I haven't come across too much literature in this field. What I know is from my own interests. I'm currently looking to develop 3D printed techniques that infuse hemp as a part of the printed medium. I am a firm believer in the original practices of our collective ancestry as they had to deal with the elements with much less and had a much better result. I think this is along the lines of less is more. At any rate, I love these types of videos, especially when it's from our beloved continent.
I have been into renewable architecture for awhile, I don't know if I want to go to school for it, but I definitely enjoy researching and coming up with ideas. It's my dream to build an affordable totally self-reliant village, close to what was displayed in the rendering. If you wanted to do some more research of your own (that's if you don't know about these already) look into: Rammed earth houses, Earthship homes, Sand Bag Houses, Cobb Houses, and Bamboo Houses. There is also aircrete, but since concrete isn't a renewable resource I don't think it makes the list.
Brother you should definitely start these types of communities in the state, we African America want our culture back!!
Wow, I from Oakland, Cali and I left that hell at the height of the Kovvad9teen pandemic. We touched down in Egypt went to Sudan for a month went back to Egypt and we have been in Morocco since last December. Gambia is next where we want to seriously plant ourselves. But my dream is to visit Nigeria tho beautiful people.
As an African domicile outside the continent because of the transatlantic trade in enslaved Africans I am concerned about the amount of plastic and hair extensions that I see been used on the continent
I am convinced with the right technology multi-story homes could be built without cement, that is what I plan to attempt.
Yes, thank you for sharing us this video, and your saying the right about Africa especially about the kids,and us I'm studying architecture I'm soo happy to seeing this and last month I have a research about a successful architect and I discovered we have a great architecture man from Burkina Faso Diébédo Francis Kéré And I am so appreciate about the good quality hi have done it and my teacher wanted to know about the African architecture's, I'm so happy to I'm born in Africa and to be African ✊🏿. your brother from Somalia 🇸🇴✊🏿
Hire me at your firm fam 😅
I agree sis. In my opinion Africa has the best architecture in all the world and Morocco is profiting off of traditional African ideas. Traditional African designs are even all over world. That's how influential it is. Africans are very creative. I'm not saying ditch mud all together but they should be moving past mud huts. It's 2022. And Africa should look like Africa not the west or Asia. It's sad to see so.many western style homes and shacks with rusty tin roofs in Africa. But im still hopeful.
Why should africa move past mud huts?
Move past the natural structure (mud hut)? When the concrete boxes start baking like ovens, you will take that back, I hope.
Yes move past traditional style mud huts. Africans are creative. They can revamp @@seeingchild3232
Absolutely love this architecture, no pollution and when no longer used can go back to the Earth . All people need to build this way for world wide affordability. Let's face it African people have built this way since the dawn of time. Many standing for hundreds of years. Thank you
So happy to hear that you are sharing the genius of African architecture!
I am African American and I feel that what you are expressing here is what the world needs in order to be a heal-thy (self) global community. Much thanks
Astounding video. Thank you for your vision. Thank you for being unapologetically african. I'm passionate about african design and architecture and i'm definitely convinced that this is the future. Amazing work
That is my dream as an AA to move back to Africa and live on my own land in a Mud house I build myself. We have to start valuing everyone elses culture except our own. Very good points love the work you do.
Just beautiful, some the design looks historical, love to see young people changing or bringing back some of the ancestoral home design. Blessings my sis!
Couldn't agree more!
I agree, I believe that you can do it and it will look so much better . I absolutely think you need to share this idea with the people . Dont let anyone come in and buy your lands.
This topic is so interesting and exciting. Thank you for what you do. There are so many ways to do mud building. I grew up in a mud brick home.built by the colonial powers, British army circa 1900. The way they did it is using a lot of lime, so lime mortar to join the bricks and lime plaster on the outside of the house. Its not so environmentally friendly as the lime has to be burned and used up a scarce resource, seashells. My Dad painted the house with Poly-vinyl-acetate, a modern, plastic wall coating. It can't breathe, and since then the damp problems started. I've since read about milk based paints and many other ways of making the outside of the wall waterproof so it can still breathe. This as a future market is huge, not just the architects and builders (and a high degree of skill is needed) but people who make natural breathable paint, plasters and more. I've since built a raw clay pizza oven that bakes like no other oven, gourmet all the way. I found the material so forgiving, so easy to alter, so flexible with so many creative possibilities... WOW... its fabulous. However its ease of use has perhaps led to it being held in disregard. It is a forgiving material on a small scale. But to build multistorey buildings and buildings in climates with heavy rains needs expertise, and a deep understanding of the material. Probably this skill way exceeds that of building with concrete, which is 'easy' But the reason I think the cement and concrete industries have been so industrialized is that the materials are expensive not free. So the economic incentives for companies to develop mechanized building methods was great. The greatest era of mud building lies ahead, when it to will be mechanized, and the craftsmen who use it paid as well as plumbers and electricians and other builders. Sorry, I'm repeating myself... love love love what you do
We are on the same wavelength. Thank you for assisting me to get to my destination
The 3D model is indeed inspiring
We should be using local materials, sustainable and all that, BUT, we need to not go back to the middle ages. We need to build modern homes with electricity, solar panels, internet. I have seen 21st century homes that pay homage to or are inspired by ancient looks but still look modern.
There're architects in Burkina Faso trying to develop innovative mud-building techniques. Bloomberg Originals has a video on this.
Hi sis, keep up the good work. much appreciated. How encouraging your video has been, especially at such a time as this as I am planning to build a mud house in my mother land - Uganda. We Africans in the diaspora need to encourage one another.
So true! We need to come together as a community and work together for our common goals, and break the power of these landlords who build empty homes everywhere, only for investment. In America we could end homelessness now, but somehow that would crush the so-called "American Dream". Greed can be so evil and so stupid.
This video is so inspirational, it would’ve been so incredible if cultures can be represented through architecture, especially like the mosques in Mali they stood for almost 600 years yet other western cultures still thinks this is primitive architecture, which is absolutely ridiculous
I love the idea, because I want to build a house for myself. And I like the natural shapes
omggggg i love this video and your explanation of the potential for the future of the continent! this is my favorite topic right now and i’m so excited
social entrepreneurship message inspires. many collaboration between builders and home buyers. They have a system here where people build their own houses in a collaboration with companies providing materials, finance and training. It brings the cost of a four roomed cottage with plumbing and all the features down to about 8% of the usual purchase cost
Francis kere, architect from Bukino Faso.
We just sold our Colonical house three months ago , now we renting looking at Land to build our new family home some ideas are coming from Indigenous African Architectural design as well using earthly materials like mud and clay but also taking climate weather condition into account with some japaness influence at low costing to construct.
Thank you for this beautiful video. Love the people around the world are now looking back at their cultural past and learning to live in eco villages just like their fore fathers did.
Hi, I am a young and aspiring architectural designer who truly believes that we as Africans need to go back to how we used to do things, especially in the way we built our civilisations. I do believe that a different policy needs to be implemented where we embrace heritage and culture in how we design and define our Urban areas. That 3D model is amazing. Care to share the link for a fellow brother, there is a lot of work that needs to be done. Ase
The Japanese culture is very careful to support and honor their artisans of traditional works. Silk makers, sword makers, potters, silk screen artists...on and on. With all that gorgeous African architecture I'm sure you can find those who know how it has been done. Honor them by preserving them and their knowledge and by using them. ❤
I love what you're saying. Your words are music to my ears. African architecture is exquisite. Mud building also requires special skills and could create many many jobs. They are doing this all around the world now, even printing mud with 3D printers ! Though some techniques are so easy a child can build a house with it, there are other forms of mud work where artisans are sorely needed, and all the architects in India designing with mud bring up the issue of the skills. I envision a situation where the homeowners put in a lot of labor doing the simpler tasks of building their own house but there are these specialists who perform crucial tasks and are paid as well as the best craftsmen. We should have trade schools which teach mud building alongside the crafts of carpentry, electrical, plumbing etc. On that note (sorry to go off at a tangent). Plumbers must also be trained to build compost toilets. I have had one for four years since our city ran out of drinking water because 3/4 of the water use in a house is for flushing. The bucket system is very easy to run. Without waterborne sewage you save on the water, the laying of waste pipes, all the ceramics and expensive urban infra-structure like purification works and more. All the home owner needs is tap water and a solar geyser and a 2 cubic meter composter to live a life of luxury. The composted manure also provides excellent fertilizer for growing a lovely garden, as they have been doing in China and the Amazon since before Stonehenge was built. But that is also a topic surrounded by shame and fear.
Love from Oakland, Cali 🇺🇸. Excellent work sis, keep up the good work ✊🏾
I really love Dwell magazine but I am noticing a trend. Companies and architects are utilizing indigenous techniques and styles for forward thinking housing. Case in point, I open my email and see an email from Dwell. The email contains the usual architecturally built homes costing more than I want to pay - but still like to "tour". Then I see this article: "Have a look at the World's first 3D printed home made entirely of clay". I say a quick "yes" and drive into the article. The founder of a company named WASP notes in the article that the project responds to the increasingly serious climate emergency and the need for sustainable homes.
And if I had held my breath until he give credit to the originators of clay homes, I would be dead. The article centered more on the overall shape of the building (it is reminiscent of a wasp nest) than anything else. No mention of Mali, Nigeria or anywhere else on the Afrikan continent. But the founder is quoted as saying: "It would be truly extraordinary to shape the future by transforming this ancient material with the technologies we have available today". Confused: is he referring to the soil as an ancient material? Or using the word "material" so he can say he did make reference that the idea was taken/stolen/borrowed from another culture.
Please understand, I don't have an issue with a company creating a 3D printer to build clay homes. My issue is with the missing reference notes. I feel that I am continually feed plagiarized Afrikan culture, technique and design, that has been studied, dissected and reassembled without the slightest "...you can see indigenous examples of this style in ancient and today's (insert your favorite Afrikan country here)" comment.
Enough is enough.
Feels like we should have done this video together ua-cam.com/video/O9EHWKiU9Bo/v-deo.html It is exactly what my head was thinking when I was talking about how Italy is saying they are pioneering mud new models of mud houses but when you look at the designs they tell a deep story about African indigenous culture that is not acknowledged anywhere.
@@mudhouses Yeeesssss!!! This is the first video that I watched on your channel. After I watched it, I had to subscribe. I love that you also made a video about the "steal an idea, then add a up to date technology, now we own the concept" companies/individuals. The sad true is...that company is not the only one doing this.
Taking back, owning and disseminating our narrative is a first step. Thank you for the work you are doing.
@mudhouses They can also start researching with videos on Sfrican architecture like these: ua-cam.com/video/QChYRjxtaMg/v-deo.html
Amen. I'm s firm believer that their are more answers for modern problem in our past than what we see today. I like how you brought up the sewage issue. I would love to build with mud but sewage is an problem for me to complete an idea. I always wanted to me an architect some i was 10 unfortunate dropped out of college after my first year
Hey I am a 22yr female from SA studied Civil Engineering in college and this is my dream to build people sustainable homes or make them see that not only is it cost effective , and is them reducing their CO2 footprint but it also be designed and build beautifully. Would love to get in touch with you and Possibly work with you , but would most importantly just be part of your network group because seems like we have a heart for the same thing
All the materials to make your own home is literally everywhere in every square inch of the soil. What africans need to do is invest in education to learn atlernative home building with mud and clay like traditional old age building methods and I'm sure everyone can build cities worth of homes. Modern materials cost money, but soil of africa is perfect to make your own material with clay and mud. You just need the education to know how. Great video.
Villager here
❤️🔥🖤🔥💚🔥💛!!! Salute and shalom! Amen and amen!!!
Thanks!
I appreciate the support 🙏
very excited !!!!
I am so happy I found this UA-cam. I have been researching this type of building only. Thank you.
Peace be with you
Move africa❤
I applaud your thinking on policy. There is so much that can be achieved if this road is explored. Africa is essentially a leader, but it is currently becoming a victim by trying to follow the unsustainable conditions of the west.
Yessss!!!
This is truly an inspiring video!. I have spoken to many people over the years about adobe brick architecture!. It's durability and eco friendliness!. But the points you made about the economic and cultural angles of this is not only prophetic, it's also a bold revolutionary gesture!. Outstanding presentation!.✊🏾❤️💯
This video is amazing! Thank you for taking the time to do this research, inform Black people and being bold enough to think critically ✨
We should have in french translate please thanks and share in all Africa
I love your content. Completely agree with you on the architecture. Will definitely be building my next house using these techniques.
This is very intriguing.
I see the continent trying to fit in world wise as one of the major problems. The concept of “third world country” should not even exist in certain aspects where the way of living/culture differs around the world.
Our way of living should not emulate others, we don’t have the same technology hence why we fail to fulfil majority of our duties. As I said, the “third, second, first world country” concept shouldn’t exist in certain areas, meaning that certain things are undeniably useful and these are the ones to be adapted to our own reality. If this was the formula to be followed from the beginning, the image of Africa would be so unique as I am writing this. But I guess values and Identity is not our focus but dressing well in front of others when the scenario at our homes is the opposite.
It is so sad. I’m from Angola and even regarding language(still with identity)
Only the elders speak the dialects so when they die, the language will die with them. As a result, we take one more step towards a confused area with no attraction at all.
I’m an architecture student and it hurts me to see temples in Asia, Roman structures in Europe to other landmarks in Americas and how they preserve and its people take so much pride in such things that in many ways represent the history of their country.
Inshallah tourism will be a major contributor to Africa’s economy in the future.
Immediacy is the modern curse.
I always find it humorous that people say "Oh, it's just an African and Asian problem with slums" because, in addition to the fact that first- and second-world countries do have slums, those same people had no problem making any business ventures in Africa their business when they could take the profits. They say it's their problem when it doesn't help themselves, but then invade the country for resources.
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Hehehe, my fellow villager how are you doing?
@@mudhouses I'm do great. 🙏🏿
Please what's the tune in the background?
San Leandro Blvd. Is where much of Oakland's homelessness is.
Could you please inform me of the houses in 15:17 and 15:54. in which country these houses are situated ?
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Awesome work.
How can I connect with builders?
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Thank you for this video and the research you shared.... Well the mud houses are beautiful and eco friendly but not scalable... M glad you gave numbers, numbers don't lie, if you want to fill the housing gap for example in Uganda where there is a housing deficit of over 2.5million houses and growing at an additional of over 300,000 units per yer, you need a housing technique that's strong, eco friendly but fast enough to catch up with those numbers. You need to atleast build 100,000 units and more per year.
And constructing single single houses will not do, we need to increase vertically not horizontally because as the population increases, land does not increase
Hi Doreen, I have made a video to answer your question about the scalability of Mud houses. I know mud houses to be scalable and I will include a few examples of cities thriving in the modern day through mud architecture. I think we need to take time to build our indigenous knowledge because mud architecture is very diverse depending on the technique you wish to use. I agree with you on the housing deficit and us focusing on providing good housing for the growing population but I think the key issue right now contrary to what you think about mud houses is the growing inequality gap that has made many people unable to own a decent home. I lived in Uganda for 2 years and one of the things I admired about your people compared to us Kenyans is that you had mastered the art of using mud to build your homes. I come from a country where we have erected many skyscrapers in areas like upper hill, Kileleshwa, Lavington, and these are the areas next to the biggest slum that we have in Africa called Libera. I have seen first hand what poor urban housing and bad governance, and a lack of education of traditional architecture has created houses that most of the year are vacant, waiting for airbnb guests from abroad while the people who live right next to these big beautiful vacant building can barely afford to live here and all the do is be the cheap labour to clean these houses. There is something fundamentally wrong in the way we have prioritize the needs of the west and their agenda for a life that is unsustainable over our own culture, heritage and most importantly our people.
@@mudhouses I agree with you. Let me watch this video
Here is the link to the video Doreen, please let me know what you think. Plus there were some really good comments on that video that challenged me further. I hope we both learn something new and keep these conversations going! ua-cam.com/video/3QYSaLMTNG0/v-deo.html
Adobe... Call it Adobe which translates to Mud Brick.. Name it Adobe and you can charge what they charge in South West USA..LOL
Numbers lie 😡😡
The Problem is this western way that has tricked everyone into believing that that is the proper way. This way that has such a disparity between wealthy and poor. This planet could sustain upwards of 30 billion people if we didnt have a group that must steal other peoples resources to be able to live in their ivory towers thereby forcing the indigenous people to live in poverty. They complain that they have to feed us. Well we fed ourselves quite well for eons before the westerners came and took our lands and forced us out to the poorer part. We need to stop idolizing that way of life, go back to the land form small communities with mud houses and farms. Re-plant more of the trees we have cut down. We will produce less green house gases and raise the oxygen levels in our breathable air and see the value in each other. May God bless us.