DIF Adobe Senior Center: Difference between revisions

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Introduction

This 10 week project is a combination of social service and a comprehensive experience with natural building. Provide more background information, assume that readers do not already know what you are doing. This section should be dramatically expanded.

This section should be dramatically expanded

Purpose

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The final goal of this project is to provide the Parras Desarollo Integral de la Familia (DIF) a refuge for homeless senior citizens to find shelter and companionship (expand this concept further) The shelter is constructed out of a natural building material that is widely used here in Parras, adobe. This project also provided hands on education for the participants of the Parras 2006 summer program.

General Description

The building will consist of a kitchen area, a living room or social area, and sleeping quarters (How large are the rooms? Bathroom? Windows? Wiring? Plumbing? Vents? Foundation? How many people will the building accommodate? Please provide a diagram.). The projected number of adobes needed to complete the shelter is approximately 1,300. (How did you calculate this? State methodology. Awkward.) Adobes are made offsite and transported to DIF. (Are you involved in building design, layout, construction, sealing, and/or painting? If so, please describe here. If not, who will be addressing these issues?) This section should be dramatically expanded.

Location

The adobe blocks were fabricated offsite from the DIF. The site provided ample storage space to allow 250 adobe bricks to dry. The shelter is to be constructed in a small ranch town calld Parras of aprox. 32,000 citizens which is located in northern state of Coahuila Mexico. It will be constructed in the Parras DIF headquarters which is located on the calle Ramos Arizpe. At the DIF headquarters the senior center will be located in a far back right corner, behind the kitchen.

Proposed Materials and Budget

Too casual.

Address topics such as plumbing, wiring, windows, doors, framing, paint , sealant, plasters, required mortar, design, labor (there are different costs for different specialities and levels of experience - thus separate out the cost of different laborers), equipment, actual cost of water, rooving, foundation reinforcement and construction. Itemize costs for the floor and roof.

Do and show quantity calculations for materials, such as adobe needed (for blocks, mortar, maybe plaster), concrete (foundation etc), water (for adobe etc), paint, etc.

Process

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  Fig 1: Here the students of the Parras 2006 program are clearing the area where we are going to be making adobe bricks. It is important to remove the majority of organic mater so that it does not get mixed into the adobe and level the ground so the bricks have a flat surface to be cured on.

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  Fig 2: To clear and level the area we used hoes, shovels, rakes, and pick axes.

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  Fig 3: During our clearing process we made separate piles of the organic mater and trash. At this point we are not sure what the home owners are going to do with these piles but we will suggest that the organic mater be composted.

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  Fig 4: This process took 18 people only two hours to finish. Now we have a large enough area to dry 250 bricks per day.

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  Fig: The adoberas must be soaked in water over night so that they are easyer to use and so that they don't stick to the adobe when they get pulled off.

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  Fig: After the pile of dry dirt is made into a crater it needs to be filled with water and soaked over night so that the hard chunks of dirt will be easyer to break up and so that most of the dirt becomes wet and ready to be made into adobe.

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  Fig: When the dirt is ready to be made into abobe we pile the dry dirt into the middle where there is a pool of water.

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-Avoid use of unspecified ´it´. -Tone is too casual. -A number of words are misspelled, use a spell checking devise to avoid this issue. -Write a caption for every figure. -State clearly where you obtained your information (How do you know that enough space is available for 250 adobes/day? Does this assume that adobes completely dry in one day? Did you measure? Did you research? Did someone tell you?) -Define ´ready to be made into adobe´. -Mixing process? -Hay? -Preparing molds? -Etc.

Your process description should provide necessary information for an inexperienced person to successfully make adobe bricks. What type of material do they need? Where can one find it? How do you know if adobe is ready? What steps are required to mix adobe appropriately? Etc. Please include the important steps.

Timeline

Where is your timeline?

Project Participants

Project Coordinators

• Ana Mari Arruabarrena

• Ariana Verona Madappa

Project Participants

Parras 2006 Humboldt students and coordinators, Parras DIF employees; Bernardo Reyes and Adrian, Parras DIF volunteers, Adobe educator; Martin (Ciro Liro).

References

Please find Credible Sources

http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/adobe.htm

http://networkearth.org/naturalbuilding/oven.html

http://www.adobebuilder.com/

http://www.adobebuilder.com/adobe-home-construction-2.html

http://www.firebudd.com/adobe/