Architects Are Using Mud to Build Sustainable Homes
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- Опубліковано 8 жов 2020
- ‘Earth built’ or 'breathable houses' are supposedly eco-friendly to produce, because they use readily available, natural materials and building methods. Homes made from mud have been used for thousands of years across many cultures, but they’ve been traditionally created by men.
In this episode of the ecological alarm clock that is Extinction Update, we travel to Mosorin, Serbia to meet Dragana Kojičić, an architect who for the past 10 years has been developing the Centre for Earth Architecture, a group reviving these ancient traditionally male-dominated techniques and teaching younger generations of women the earth built method.
Could this back to basics building method be a climate solution for the rest of the planet?
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Straw bale home builder/owner here. The insulation value of straw bale buildings is amazing. I have very low cooling bill in summer, and no bill in winter for heating, as I use waste wood to heat my home. Often times cooking a meal in winter is plenty to keep the entire house warm. It is also passive solar design, so in summer is shaded, but in winter when the sun shines, we get plenty of free solar warming.
We have clay plasters on the straw bales, and made many interior walls using several natural building techniques.
Our home is a hybrid of natural materials (clay, sand, straw) and manufactured materials (metal roofing, glass windows, wall tiles in the bathroom, and poured concrete floors.) So much can be done, but isn't.
It does take a special drive to accomplish what the architect has done, and yes, these sorts of homes can be built to the building codes in any region.
Convert to solar for heating. Burning wood is destroying the world.
@@Cthulhu013 I use wood that is sustainably grown on my own land. I also make biochar in my wood stove as a bonus product.
This sequesters carbon in the soil for hundreds of years.
My wood stove is highly efficient, and has extremely low particulates emitted.
I have done the research and am confident in my decisions to heat my home with wood.
@Bronski Turboski I absolutely used wood and modern roofing materials to keep the rain off of my mud walls. Have a great day.
Hi! I was wondering if you could tell me more information on your house. I am currently planning our home build. A few things I am wondering is where you built your house? how many sq feet your home ended up being and what the cost total ended up being.
@@Christinalight219 we are in Central Kentucky USA.
990 square feet inside, 2400 under roof. Wrap around porches.
$129,000 was final cost.
Civilization and the westernization has doomed us all. I am an african and we built like that but it was viewed as barbaric and now look at the consequences. We should never have changed our ways!!
I mean Africans built with many other materials like stone but I feel like we always go back to earthworks because our climate is conducive for that material.
@@whitneyshiphrah56 i feel like in England the rain would make a mud house into a mud slide plus it would probs be Robbie cause all you need is a good garden hose to make a hole in the wall
@@shrekthebest9399 There are rains in Africa too but mud houses can withstand such downpour. You're forgetting that the mud will dry and become sun baked
In places like England houses were built with using “wattle and daub” mud but with plaster cover to make it more waterproof, plus a thatched roof overhang so water flows away from the wall
I was gonna say the same
Me: Looks for a mud house in California
California: The cheapest mud house here is $350,000
I live in South Florida. The price of the land you could build any type of house on in CA or FL is the hugest factor. Then the cost & troubles of building codes- you'd have to live way out in the swamps in FL or the high mountains of CA to get away with building this kind of dwelling.
@@twillyspree3759 Gonna be gone in about 1 hurricane anyway.
@@deadeyeduncan5022 No matter where you live, there will be hazards from Mother Nature.
Nobody stops livin' their lives in Florida, Louisiana or Texas because of Hurricanes. Nobody stops living in California because of earthquakes- even tho that state is right on top of a volatile plate line.
Latest I've read by geologists, the massive volcanic system under Yellowstone Park is due for a blow.
While I'm all for humans trying to clean up the planet & spread much less pollution, there's not a damn thing any of us could do to prevent a volcanic blow at Yellowstone & the resulting "nuclear winter" environment after.
Actually it's free. Just make it yourself!
They can threat the volcano with nukes :7
While working as a carpenter in Japan I put an addition on a house that was built around the year 1900. The wall that we opened up had a massive header beam from a 100-plus-year-old tree that held the sliding doors in place. Between the studs, the walls were supported by interlocked bamboo and the insulation was made of straw and mud.
thats awesome. was it well insulated?
it is called wattle and daub in Englis, Bahareque in Spanish.
Yeah but not everyone wants to live in that..
@@deooptimomaximo9843 Sorry for the delayed response... lol The insulation isn't ideal, to day the least. But the more comfortable we are, the less resilient we are.
@@ItchyKneeSon yeah fair point. Thanks for the response
I wish my grandpa had a vice segment about how he built his house with mud and other things
Same :v
Hey, do you know what tools and natural resources he used? This looks really cool and i wanna build a pool 😅
Why don't you just ask him if he is up for it? And send a email to vice?
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In South Sudan we been doing this mud house for a while, I mean the whole of African thou
India also
"South" Sudan? Wtf is that?
@@Sp1n1985 look at a recent map....
@@Paul__Allen when the hell did that happen?
Marcus INfinity there’s a documentary somewhere on UA-cam about it
They picked the right reporter for this.
lol my comment got erased.
@@jaimedelgado7529 what did you say
@@tylery6352 what did he say?
@@paogene1288 😂😂😂
@@paogene1288 what did he say that he said?
Also this reporter should host every vice from here on out 🤣
I love how sustainability is "inventing" techniques used for thousands of years by now.
I'm from india, we had houses like these like 40 years ago and everyone lived in them and were happy and now we are MODERN AND CIVILISED and depressed and stuck in shitty jobs
thanks to white folks, listen to sadhguru people !
George-Davidson blame white?? Who is ruling india now? Who is trashing the streets and shitting on the beach?? Brah
I would rather live in a home with a solid reinforced concrete foundation, wood and sheetrock walls, with a roof, than a cube of dried mud with some grass on the roof. And there isnt really such thing as being "stuck in a job." Peoole that think this way have no self esteem or drive to actually strive for what they wish to achieve. Instead you ACT depressed hoping for people to feel bad for you.
Why don't you go back to living in those mud houses edge lord. There are still ppl living in such houses without electricity , they will be happy to switch with you
Yeah-because Europeans gaslight other cultures into thinking they need to be like them and that's why our earth is dying and everyone is miserable.
Seriously???
I am now more proud of ancient Indian civilization and culture, their wisdom about life and compassion for mother earth.
Now you understand why they worship everything like soil, rivers,plants,animals,hills,sun,moon,mountains anything. They actually know the importance of living in harmony with the nature.
Just like the natives in the Americas, especially in the southern parts and the Sonoran desert
You don't need to worship the earths elements. You can be grateful for them.
@@jimmyneutron8702 agree 🙏
@@Ibaaz33 then just be Grateful... But unfortunately a religion causes hurdles in this way.
Same thing with Africa
Fancy architects: Mud houses and bricks .
Indian Village peasants: lol!
I guess we were the masterminds all along.
Right reminds me of when my white friends took me Apple 🍎 picking when my relatives found out from Facebook they said yea we did that too when we started of how much did they pay you?
Me -no I paid 3 dollars per pound I collected
Them - wtf what ?
@@MP-pw1yo this is one of the oldest house building techniques in humid regions all over the world.
😂😂
well it also depends what other amenities you have
Who's watching from parts of Africa and South Asia and going, Europeans rediscovering mud houses- We've been doing this.
I get your point but this is within Serbia, Balkan. If you look through history we have been building houses like these for millennia, No idea though why VICE decided to start marketing it now lol it is not as if we just found out how to do this lol
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wattle_and_daub
Facts
yea they’re trying to paint themselves like heroes here for something that u guys been doing for so long, its still great that they’re changing though.
There's no "rediscovery"
The US already has had an industry that mass produces hundreds of thousands of Adobe bricks for constructing purposes, they've had it for years in fact. Just not many homeowners choose to make their homes from it
"Buildings are responsible for 40% of greenhouse gas emissions" is so vague that it ignores what ACTUALLY causes the emissions. Its not the make up of the buildings, its the internal operations. Houses have emissions due to the daily activities of the people within it. I'd argue an uninhabited brick house has no emissions, simply a longer lasting footprint, which ultimately could be very small. A mud house with electricity, gas, and water would also have emissions, while also being less maintainable, strong, and worse at overall heat retention. Its not a terrible idea in warm climate areas. Then it brings up a whole other issue of soil composition. It doesnt seem widely applicable enough to have any impact. Plus the lack or diminishing of a chain of labour would be disastrous for the economy. Good idea, but I dont think its got any legs.
No, a brick house does not have a small footprint. Brick, mortar, and concrete are extremely carbon and water intensive to produce. Nevermind the wood or steel used to reinforce them, the fuel used to transport them hundreds or thousands of miles and erect/pour them. One foundation has to have limestone baked in a kiln, rocks crushed into substrate by giant diesel machines, and another giant machine mixes them and has to drive to the site on roads whose pavement is made the same way and degrades rapidly under the weight of the cement passing over it.
@@jcarry5214 sounds like skillful jobs
@MultiFreakface Agreed. But a chain of labour disappearing isn't disastrous in the context of ecology. If ecology wouldn't be outweighing economy we wouldn't be having this discussion in the first place. We need to somehow get rid of this mindset, and set of laws, that non-essential labour is anything but occupational therapy. That's been the positive side of covid incidentally, the diminishment of non-essential labour has been buying us a tiny bit more time.
@@jcarry5214 it doesn't refute the fact that activities are what emit the greenhouse gases... It's also factually incorrect, google tells me 1/3 of all greenhouse gases emitted in US are from buildings which is more than any other sector of the economy (which means its ONLY building the buildings) but they don't produce MOST of the greenhouse gases.
Marcus INfinity All automated.
First world countries: Maybe we should start living in mud houses so we don't destroy the planet.
Third world countries: *Facepalm, You think?
Serbia is not a first world country we are third world
I understand, but compared to the countries where mud houses are common. Serbia is better developed.
@@sarastojakovic1484 Serbia is cloer to first world country
this idea of abandoning "traditional" homes and living in mud houses is just an idea for us poor people to adopt, while the wealthy elite continue on living in their multi million dollar estates
You’re really liking that electricity and internet, though. Aren’t you? How much carbon did you produce making this stupid little comment to which I’m responding?
I'd never get a permit to build with any of those materials. All materials must be CSA aproved and built to national building codes. Natural materials don't have a manufacturers certification.
And you've just discovered the beautiful world of lobbying my friend ...
Ant • like ants?
@@TubeMeisterJCthat is some wild cartoon fantasy you got there - you confuse earth houses with sand castles and flammable paper at the same time. Earth/soil is one of the most fire resistant materials on the planet, how exactly will rammed earth burn down quickly? You confuse it with modern houses full of plastic, chip board, electronics, plastic encased wires, plastic paints, installations and piping, plastic framed windows and carpeting together with poor electrics, gas pipes and shitty ventilation - all that turns modern buildings into torches, like that Greenwell house in the UK. How will damp ever be a problem when rammed earth houses are breathable and properly insulated? Modern brick and concrete houses are so poorly built they get water damage, fungus and mold from rain collecting on badly built rooftops and water emissions from humans, bathrooms and kitchens caught inside in shitty ventilation. And all these earth houses in the video are literally built upon sturdy wood frames, with proper roofing on top. And the lady in the start makes sturdy cob bricks that are water resistant after just drying in the sun. How is a flood supposed to collapse these houses and kill everyone inside? These are NOT sand castles on the beach. You are blind and hilariously ignorant
@@TubeMeisterJC Um, no. If the bricks are fired, they don't wash away. The roof can certainly burn but if the walls are white washed, it's going to be a bit more difficult for the walls to burn.
And the daubed walls are STRONG. There are still buildings in England standing many hundreds of years old with the original daub still intact and protecting the dwelling. Oldest is something like 600 years! So no, it's not going to be so easy to kick the walls in. You do not understand the material, clearly. Even modern style buildings begin to severely decay after just half a century.
@@TubeMeisterJC Yes and wood frame is inferior to concrete block in the modern day, and yet we still make wood frame buildings, so what is your point? Because I think you are missing the point of making these buildings today. They are capable of longevity with old standards and they are more affordable and more green than modern standards. If we combine this old technology with newer building ideas, they can be even better whilst still remaining more green than modern builds.
If for example we want to solve the homeless problem or help people climb out of poverty, these sorts of homes are ideal for doing that.
It would be so nice, if VICE would write the names of their series in the UA-cam titles
they posted this as new today lol season 1 episode 25 of "vice world news" on snapchat
It depends on the location and structural codes. As a civil engineer which is inclined with the structural stability of a building, homes build from bricks are very prone to flexure failure because bricks are only good for compression. If you build that in the Philippines, it will easily be dismantled by a Typhoon. Bricks are only good as an Architectural part of the building like walls, wall bricks, or floor tiles, if you will use this as a structural member therefore it is hazardous.
Phillipines is in the tropics so they'd probably use bamboo for structural support. In any case, best to see what the indigenous have been building with, because they've been there 1000's of years and the locals know which raw materials are available and how to combine them.
We in India have similar homes built until 20 years ago, they carry every kind of hazard, if it rains some parts washaway, the grass roofing leaks, roots, snakes nest in them, rats nest in them and a few more, they are a great fire hazard, one stray match and you can watch your home go up in flames, in event of an earthquake it ain't gonna survive. And pretty easy to break in with today's tools.
Then you are not making mud houses the right way. When mixing mud with water, it shud be done for long time with proper mixer machine. There are more than 1000 years old mud house in Afghanistan and 10 story mud buildings in Yamen. Make it the right way. Mix lime stone in the mix.. rates, insects all stay away
easy to break in using today tools?
Have you heard about lockpicking?
We couldn't build mudbrick house near River in the UK, that would be disastrous....
I bet the Germans could do it tho
You’d have to be very brave to live in a mud brick house in a country constantly ravaged by extreme weather and natural disasters like Japan. Even reinforced houses already crumble with typhoons and earthquakes.
@Chungus Britain is literally the most innovative country to ever exist🤔
@@mrsleakyshit concrete is mud. So no
Archibald Maule Ramsay no Dubai is
Hempcrete for the outside wall for insulative effect, mudbrick/cob on the inside for thermal mass....perfect for any climate!
This is fantastic. I have studied earth-built medieval European dwellings, the traditional wattle-and-daub, but this style seems to be made of adobe bricks and cutting out the ingredient of animal poo in the daub- definitely a bonus!
While air-conditioning seems to be an issue, I think if the houses were built angled to catch prevailing breezes, that would be helpful.
Architects don’t typically “use” anything to build a house. They draw up the plans which people like myself then build using whatever materials said plan specifies. But it’s nice to see someone bucking the trend.
I see
There are thousands of homes made of clay and straw (cob) in the uk some with walls 1m thick. They are still standing after 500+ years.
Glad to see you guys can still go out and interview, on location, hands on.
Africa, India, South America and Native Americans have been doing this for ages. I am happy the rest of civilization is catching-up🎉
"Inside The Community Made Of Mud" severely confused me lol the new title is better
Last year I went to Mexico, crazy how they still make home like that. Can't really tell the difference.
I grew up in the similar house. It was the very best experience. Considering air quality, it was way better than now, since I moved to a flat.
Why and how is air quality better I struggle with breathing
1. We already use regular hollow bricks to build houses here in europe
2. Wood is better building material then bricks or mud
3.Dry mud doesn't go well with rain
4.Greenhouse gases are not emitted by houses themselfs , but rather by power plants that supply electricity
Those mud bricks are sun dried and not fired. Once the rainwater reaches several centimeters, don't they concern about the lower part of the house starting to crumble?
In Bangladesh this mud bricks is cost around $0.09 for 10"x3"x2.5" size.
labour got just 1 cent of less for making and drying it. Then its being burn in terracotta burner.
And this is a major problem. Clay is clay because it contain calcium carbonate, potassium carbonate and Silicon dioxide. and the only source of this thing is fertile agriculture land.
I came to see the girl with her hands on the wall
You know that bricks are technically made from earth too?
They act as if they invented these kind of houses built with mud bricks, while we have been living in houses built like this for generations.
I like what they are doing,but we didn't move on from those houses for no reason,if they are so good we wouldn't have change them for the modern ones.I am from Serbia and I have a small house like that in the village and my grand grandparents made a modern house,they wouldn't have built it if it didn't have benefits compared to the mud house.So we don't use them for a reason.
@Ghai You have no idea what you are talking about. Yeah those big corporations which told our ancestors thousands of years ago to move on from mud are definitly real.
You can live in your dirt, but i will not. Thank you
@Ghai Have you even been in a house like that?It is not like you home clean and colourful it is just dark,dusty and miserable I mean it is liveable but not nice for sure so that is why people moved out of them
2:34 "So you just leave it for 3-4 days and in one week it's dry." .. wait so do I leave it for 3 days or for 1 week?? lol
3-4 days in the sun, 1 week of total drying :)
3 days and 4 days make one week
3-4 days to dry on one side after you flip it and let dry the other half...i used to do that in my childhood
Thanks for posting this up Vice, such great looking homes, architect Dragana's done great things here.
I work in lime mortars & plasters and live in a 300 year old cob home, so they can last well.
I want to make a community for homelessness in my area like this. Someone tell me how in the world to get this done. Its amazing. I thought about bottle homes previously. this sounds more sufficient in all aspects and areas. I would like to see how combining the two would work out as well.
Are there going to be any safe places where I can put my needle in my arm? If not you may be the only one in your mud community.
@Henry,
I dont look at you and see visible signs of shooting up. Who am I to guess though. Yeah you'd probably be safe and warm inside of your mud house. I cant help the fact that there are addicts. Being an ex user myself however, I do know these people still need a place to live and help and support they may not be able to get anywhere else. If they are willing to help come and build a mud house than I would see them fit enough to be willing to live in and take care of one as well. Just because they have a drug problem doesn't mean they need to be homeless.
Make the homeless build it
@@4057hofft only if they get to own all rights to it afterwards. Not too keen on slave labour where they get it snatched away from them once its built by companies or the corrupt governments
The government will never allow for it. They don’t want solutions to a housing problem that’s self created thru over regulation. Homelessness is a feature not a design flaw. Sadly.
Been doing this in India since beginning of time. Weird how most of us now want to be 'westernized' while the west is realising how efficient the traditional ways are
As an African, this s** hurts ☹️- we were considered primitive or uncivilized for having mud huts... my grandmother did everything shown in this video without an “architecture” degree....is eco-colonialisme a thing? Cuz this s** feels like it 🤦🏾♂️
Wait, it's all Earth?
Vojvodina: *Always has been*
I mean, my father built houses of mud all his life. It is a great idea to consider whenever you live in areas where skyscrapers are not. It is so cheap to work with adobe. There are a lot of factors to consider indeed, however, I believe it would be more beneficial than detrimental. I am currently learning how to work with mud.
Yeah, these Mudhuts are really climate friendly, also they have a life expectancy of 30 years, in comparison a "normal" House has over 100, they are prone to collapse and bury you under all the mud and straw, which is even more climate friendly since you wont be producing any more pesky CO2.
Any dont even try to build a multiple story house like that or any house near any water.
Also forget building a cellar.
There are reasons that most of humanity builds houses out of bricks or concrete if they can afford it.
Vice will do anything to reject Western conventions or technology.
citation needed? If you build a poor quality house and don't maintain it, it will eventually collapse no matter what building material is used. Bricks and concrete (and also steel for that matter) are also vulnerable to water damage, it's literally one of the most common ways that those materials fail.
With proper shoring and supports, you could build a earthen house with a cellar or a 2nd floor if local conditions allow, especially if you were "allowed" to use some wood and stone materials too. If you have access to lime or mortar, you could for sure do it.
Actually 30% of the worlds population lives like this right now.The reason most use other building methods, is simply because they won’t allow natural building techniques.
You can be literally in the middle of nowhere and in the US you’ll still run into building regulation issues. They really don’t want people living cheaply and freely and having cost effective natural building materials, hurts that web of control.
I can also write a book about the downside of these shitbox huts
Well we built millions of these houses in serbia, some are standing on top of rivers, most of them are very near rivers and they last for century, my greatgrandfather had one of these and nothing collapsed on his head
Heres a bit of advice...typically when we invent things, it's to improve on an original idea - or create something new to solve a previous problem.
We started transitioning from mud houses many many years ago for a reason, and there is a reason why we haven't 'improved upon' the idea of them either.
These things aren't meant to be long term housing solutions - nor are they meant to withstand major weather conditions (at least without being a major hassle) nor insects/rodents, etc.
Finally, they don't support modern electrical/plumbing and heating in a friendly manner. Yet alone the 'slanting' over time that occurs due to natural settling.
Why is this important 'news'? No idea. But hey, i've got an idea...lets go back to using outhouses while we're at it! I wouldn't mind having to scrape me and my families poo from the bottom of a hole every month! Sounds like fun!
@@wiseupfixit7552 these people don't know concrete starts from mud.
What you say actually makes sense but what it doesn't do is pay for stockholders. Houses built today are not better built. They are built faster. They are built quickly and cheaply and with as much profit as possible in mind. With tonnes of waste created.
I helped build Cobb homes from "mud" it was more energy efficient less wasteful and beautiful.
@Eric D, "We started transitioning from mud houses many many years ago for a reason, and there is a reason why we haven't 'improved upon' the idea of them either." you are correct and that reason was all for money, it cannot be denied that before European conquest and the stealing of natural resources from outside of Europe, most of the homes built in Europe for peasants was a sort of earthen homes (cobb) homes.
@@MrChrismasuimi 😂😭😂😭
The reporter is a hottie. I'd be cool with one of these houses.
No kidding
Simp
@Not So Regular I hate when those fkkers do that. What bs.
This is exactly what is needed to solve the housing crisis. We need to designate resources so that people can build their own houses on public land or “shared land”. The house is built out of nothing but natural materials so there is no waste after it’s gone and can be built in extensions as needed. Extremely durable, affordable, do-able with some education and practice and help. This combined with a community food forest is the basic structure of future cities. Simple and efficient with technology where needed. Solar panels, windmills, bike paths, community jobs, etc.
it’s just what needs to happen for the sake of the planet. We all need to live healthier, simpler and closer to the earth which we will all be apart of again.
David Jackson alright quick to labels and quick to name calling. These houses are beautiful, efficient and can be adjusted in size depending on family. Can be built in just a few months by a family or group of friends. Best thing about it is it eliminates homelessness and saves the environment at a very low cost. What’s so “Marxist” about that?
David Jackson I think it’s gullible to believe that the only way to have a house in America is by getting people to build a house and paying them less than what it takes to actually own one🤷🏽♂️
屋根に土を盛ると夏に草が生えて涼しくなります。冬は土が太陽熱で暖かくなります。全部自然を元に考えるといいそうです。
This place looks absolutely amazing!! I love it.
in the average lifetime a person will breath in about 44 pounds of dust
Most of dust is skin flakes
this houses have better air inside than outside, no dust whatsoever, even the mud floors make no dust
@@DeandreSteven very correct sir
@@DeandreSteven Apparently not, ua-cam.com/video/jn5M48MVWyg/v-deo.html
During video they mention adapting to local available materials, labor or other costs. As for how long any last in one climate or not, I recall people doing maintenance periodically, not just waiting for devastation. The roof incline and materials. Drainage and diverting. Etc
Sand, steel, concrete are also "natural" materials
Some of these materials are natural to a point, but it’s the process to obtain, manufacture and transport them that is very harmful to our planet. It’s important to research how materials are sourced, were they are sourced, how they are manufactured and how they are transported to site... these are all very important factors in understanding whether a material is / can actually be sustainable / green or not.
I agree you start with natural ingredients but this completely ignores the impact of the process to get them to be refined products.
Sure, bring your mud houses to our fine eco-system in Puerto Rico, lets see how they stand on Hurricane season! Thank you but no thank you!
Doesn't cost anything to repair other than time. Mud houses can last literally thousands of years with ease but wood only a few hundred as for brick and concrete again only maybe a hundred or so as concrete needs maintenance. Dirt doesn't as its totally breathable.
Once it rains and the mud dries out it becomes stronger and holds itself together even better than before.
Try building one of your puerto rican homes in Subsaharan africa, let's see if it won't get stripped/sand blasted and sand over runs your home
@@Mr3344555 again nothing a bit of dirt and water can't fix, repairs cost nothing but your time
It's obviously not for all locations. But in locations where it is feasible to build using alternative materials it would be best to do so.
@@Mr3344555 Where in Sub Saharan Africa? The deserts, the grasslands, rocky areas, the costal areas, jungles? Stop talking about stuff you don't know about.
The white man called us uncivilized not too long ago. *Laughs in African* 😂😂
[Edit] Oouuuweee!! I see this comment struck some nerves. Praise the ancestors!! 😁😁
FACTS 😂😂😂😂
foreal🤣
@@mrsapplez2007 Facts? Africa is the most deprived area on the planet, you know you are scraping low when you celebrate a mud hut as an achievement
@@TheFreshSpam yeah but Africa is industrialising fast yet the west is shifting towards these "primitive" and "uncivilised" forms of infrastructure lmao
TheFreshSpam most deprived of what???
Love this. Should have visited the group of guys everyone stays up watching at 3am that build the cool houses of mud with pools and what not.
Bohol Philippines just got hit by a typhoon signal #5 and a lot of houses lose its roof and also a lot of people are now homeless,hope this type pf houses can withstand strong typhoons or earthquakes
I feel in love with this reporter wow
Back off, she's mine.
It’s good that you’re all after her. That means less competition for my pursuit of Isobel Yeung.
it is really laughable how americans and europeans are rediscovering these methods while the rest of the world haven't forgotten about them and still use it to this day
This video is awesome...the ending is perfect 👍
There is a simple reason why this type of building is not mass produced. From a purely structural standpoint, the lifespan of a mud house is about 1/4 that of even a poorly built house with "first world" regulations. Also, you won't find many of these mud houses with a safe second floor, let alone a true multi-story building safe for human habitation.
Humans have been studying engineering for tens of thousands of years. Technology plays a huge role in structural engineering. If this was a truly feasible option for major development, well trained engineers would be doing it everywhere.
I'm not saying that there are zero positive attributes to these mud structures, but I am saying that our understanding of structural engineering and architecture in 2020 is based on hundreds (if not thousands) of years of research. If these structures made financial sense in an urban area, and were safe at scale, they'd be made everywhere already.
The host is cute AF tho! EDIT TO ADD- Petrovic is a name derived from Petra, meaning Rock or Rock solid. So the surname/last name Petrovic essentially means rock solid... A strangely apropos name of a host talking about building from earthen materials
My maternal grandfather's mud house is about 100 years old and still standing.
It needs a different kind of maintenance, but I will stand.
You are right about the multistorey though...
Very funny 😄 when People of Africa know this System of building houses long time ago and the West tells you otherwise.!!! Crazy
Outstanding work! The world needs more people like y'all.
Actually, I think the whole point of civilization is that the world needs less people living in mud huts;)
I live in Wisconsin in the USA and I am very poor and I already know there's plenty of clay in my backyard to build like this and sand as well and wish I could do it but the government creates laws that prohibits building things out of other materials then there idea of things. I'm sure for some good reason would be we don't want stupid people who don't know what they are doing to get hurt and I agree with that. But we are not all stupid and we are capable of learning and I don't think we should be excluded to have a chance to try it. Makes me feel like they really only want the world to be for the rich and don't care about the poor at all. We don't get our chance to do anything. I don't think that's what god by anyone's creed intended. We should all be able to do what we need as individuals to build a home, to hunt and collect water to eat and drink in our own way, and at least have a way to gain our own basic needs as a right. I think that's everyone's right. Shouldn't ever be anyone standing in the way of that.
Just started renovation / restoring an old mud house in Belo Blato.
I'm thinking of building a house with adobe bricks, that I want to make! Do you know if it makes any difference whether the size of the bricks are 30×15×10cm or much larger 48×48×14??
@@marioshadjikyriacou3381 the size is actually irrelevant. Naturally the larger ones are a little harder to handle. I would use the 30x15x10. Also the ideal thickness of the wall is about 70cm for earth walls. Consider framing and ramming the clay
@@Dalje1960 wall thickness has to do with the waether conditions i guess! 50cm(+something) is great enough for us!
The host got tan nd looking hot...hot climate made her tan
you should go outside more
@@11Cent lollllll epic
No we r already brown as we r Indians....the sun can't burn us anymore
@@Racing_Rog i think you missed the point. you should go outside more and find real women to simp over
@@11Cent so then do you also ever take a break from trolling random people online and get out of the house to troll people outside instead??
My guess is no.
Where do I find this "ert"?
I'd like to make a house of mud too.
Da ganja come from de ert
Google earth bag construction or cob construction
those are houses made of mud or dirt or as we call them in Serbia blatnjare
Guys just visit Nepal..you can find this types of houses are built and people are living from many decades
I was thinking, it is not natural, but more recycling, so : you could put recycled bottles filled with salt water in the walls and utilized in areas as kind of "windows", but what they really are is a possible heating unit? And by utilizing them within the walls, maybe the heat would spread? I don't know, I'd think if you did the entire bottom foot or so with supports and the bottles with salt water, maybe the heat will rise up through the walls? Again, I know it's not "environmentally friendly" but maybe it could work and provide a way to recycle these items. And also, my reasoning behind using salt water is that it would inhibit mold growth and hold the heat longer possibly?
Depends on the area but I love it!
I think I want to build an eco-friendly house. This is genius!
@David Jackson WoW you needed to comment on this guys comment because your life is so miserable or more likely moronic.
A straw bale house would provide the insulation needed in colder climates.
For adobe you really need roof overhangs to reduce the impacts of rain or snow. No matter what never patch adobe with concrete. Adobe needs to breathe and requires some yearly skim coat in most areas.
And Africans were called uncivilized for doing just this centuries ago. Can you imagine how far advanced this "technology" would have emerged if it was left to be instead of demonizing it?
I feel like this wouldn’t do so well in Florida 😅
Earth building techniques are possible in all weather conditions and environments. 30% of the worlds population lives just fine in earth homes. If you curious to how it works I’d look up earthbag construction.
Nothing survives Florida Man
In my country (Bangladesh) in the rural areas we use mud houses all the time. It is best suited for our climate
Why is it best suited
I helped build one of these in NC. It is a Cobb home I remember correctly.
My grandparents build theirs in the same way , and they still live in it
I came here to see the host...though I live in a house made of mud
Lol we beeen building mud houses 🤷🏿♀️
That’s what I thought 😂😂
🤣💯💯
Lol there's nothing to see here fam😂😂
colonizers always think they discovered some world changing idea that indigenous black and brown cultures been doing lol
@@giovannimiller7378 oh boi. Stop crying.
Its not about white people stealing culture or thinking they invented something new. The video Ist just about facts. No body cares if it was filmed in serbia or in africa because it results in the same thing: its eco friendly...
They probably just chose Vojvodina because not a lot of people expect those mudhouses in the centre of europe.
Neither did i know that and more than half of my family is from serbia and the serbian parts of bosnia.
Very common in india.......One of the best traditional methods....
serious question. I remember Adobe structures falling apart in heavy rain. What do you do to make mudbricks waterproof?
I have a adobe made brick house in Tucson we have big monsoon rains here house is totally fine
Earthships! Jesus Vice took you long enough. Hippies have been making these since the 70’s
third world countries have been making these for way longer😐
It's just old Indian village style
Exactly.... Then we were called 'non civilised'! Now they do means it is so it's ' science', research etc. With NO credit to India / Bharat!🙄
@Mi Movil Did anybody say it hasn't been done anywhere else? you seem salty. and tbh I don't think your supposed spanish mud buildings can even compare to sheer number of mud architecture in indian rural areas bro. we have entire states comparable to your country both in terms of your size & population. and no, it hasn't been done EVERYWHERE.
Bobs and vagana has entered the chat
@Mi Movil I'd say it's spread out across the entirety of asia, middle east & africa...and quite surprisingly the mediterranean? good to know
I'm not sure that this would be useful in weather extreme areas (hurricanes, floods, earthquakes, etc.), but for more safe areas, this seems revolutionary...
This is all in Serbia, with Balkan, Greece and Turkey being one of the most earthquake plagued areas in the world (where the African and Eurasian tectonic plates meet), with some extreme weather on top (drought summers and floody rain). These houses are not sandcastles on the beach, they are sturdy and built on sturdy wood frames. And how are regular brick and concrete houses doing any better in these earthquake areas?
*In this 21st century i am still living in a house made of mud bamboo and straw and i am proud of it*
Reporter: "Its actually a lovely feeling to know that you can make a brick"
Poor peasants who are forced to make bricks at pennies a day because that's the only job they can get in order to pay their debts that have been forced on them and keep them in a state of bondage to the land and debtor: "seriously?"
Its interesting how we in the west see this as a cool thing to do and like a novelty. Meanwhile the rest of the world see it differently.
Naive innocence. Like playing pretend war
Some just make cinder blocks wdym. It’s more durable
It is actually nice to know you can build with materials from the earth and construct your own home. Stop sniping people's language and pivoting with woke anecdotes to try and elicit unnecessary judgment. Natural earth building is a sustainability practice, and a home can last hundreds of years all the while having to dish out very little money. Also, you're not the spokesperson for "the rest of the world."
I was thinking in my head "try and get starving people to make mud bricks when they don't have to and see how they respond"
Something about the reporter that uhh... makes me lose focus
shes pretty
longest lived in building in the U>S is an Adobe. Lived in for thousands of years.
Now the longest a foundation can last is 100 yrs. using concrete
I have lived in Vojvodina for 10 years and I haven’t realized the houses are built this way...
ni ja XD
A živim u Sremu od rodjenja XD
So Africans are not the only ones that built with mud. So why is African architecture looked upon with such contempt??
Love how clay and earth has been rebranded as sustainable and ecofriendly but when Africans were doing it, it was barbaric and savage.
"A group focused on reviving these old techniques" wait who said they were not in use today?!!! This is how most people in Africa build their houses. If she did her research it would've been nice to discuss the similar techniques used in different areas to build using mud
Old techniques by Serbian standard. You know,the place this was filmed in. And yeah,they are not in use today in this part of the world. It's common here for people living in villages to have one small,old mud house,and a way bigger one made with modern stuff. When a mud house suffers any damage, it's repaired by modern matherials,or not at all.
In Rural Peru mud house are totally normal. A couple of problems with insects and water resistance since most of them just stacks bricks and dont pay much attention to details.
If we have been building homes from mud for millennials, we must ask ourselves why we chose to build with different materials🔍
Building regulation and death grips of industries making sure natural building laws never take place.
Because they aren’t safe or made for long term living or able to withstand bad weather conditions? Also there isn’t enough room for them, most people live in citiies, there is a reason we build upwards now. Kind of hard to build a multi-storey building from mud.
Exactly. We have to truly think if this video is realistic for the 21st century.
@@jeremyagosto-santana5280 we don’t even really need to think about it lmao, the answer is simply “no”.
Lmao. Then tell that to the people who-some of which are the people who made this video-why their idea is flawed; therefore, I do think we need to think about it. Also, to not think is to not learn. Don’t be arrogant now, I assume you are very close minded and think you know it all.
The robo-voice intro/outro is lame.
1:51 Bender from Futurama....
Baš je ovo lepo ...Hoću da idem u ovaj grad kad se vraćam u Srbiju
I have still Using this type of house & use local sources Eco material from Ancient times
I wonder what the lifespan of these houses are?
30-50 with tiny repairs, earth built houses are among some of the oldest in Europe tho when you add in some other methods.
With cob and earthbag construction for example you can easily built something much cheaper that will out last most modern buildings quite easily. For much cheaper.
Its all fun and games until there's a fire flood or earthquacke
Those don’t effect these houses that much...
Conventionally constructed homes are much more succeptible to all of these issues, especially if the builder opts to go with a reciprocal roof structure and green roof. Thatched roofs can catch fire, but so can a tar shingle roof.
So modern homes are immune? All those houses in California didn't burn? The tornado belt leaves modern houses alone? Japan didn't lose thousands of modern homes in floods after tsunamis?
This has been going on in Guatemala. They build house like that in small town. My grandmother is build that way.
Nice outro and great you are Sharing that!