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== Process: Preparing the Construction Site ==
== Process: Preparing the DIF Construction Site ==
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== Timeline ==
== Timeline ==
'''''Where is your timeline?'''''
 
Week One: The first step of the process was learning and perfecting the art of making adobes. Each day about 200 adobes were made in a three to four hour period with a group of about 15 workers. Each day the progress moved more quickly.
 
day one: 27 bricks
day two: 185 bricks
day three: 166 bricks
day four: 188 bricks
 
Week Two: With a quota of 1,400 adobes the adobe construction continued.
 
day five: 180
day six: Rain
day seven: 54
day eight: 174
Total 974 Bricks
 
[the rest will be purchased at 3.50 pesos each]
 
Week Three: The building site, having been neglected for some time, needed to be cleaned and prepared for construction. A dead tree was removed, an out-of-commission adobe oven was taken down, and all of the inorganic trash was taken out. The materials taken from the adobe oven were used to level the ground in the area.
 
Week Four: The three foot foundation of the adobe oven was removed. Before taking it down, the large rocks and sand filling it were taken out. The rocks were piled for later use in the foundation, and the sand was saved to be used as mortar. Once removed, the walls were taken down with a sledge hammer.
 
Week Five: The sand from the foundation was sifted in order to be saved for mortar. The rocks sifted out were used for filling in holes in order to level the ground. The concrete was removed from the rebar in the foundation and saved for use on the building.
 
Week Six: Using the old adobe wall, and the DIF kitchen and office buildings as points of reference.


== Project Participants ==
== Project Participants ==

Revision as of 06:21, 10 July 2006

Please note this document is currently a work in progress.

Introduction

This 10 week project is a combination of social service and a comprehensive experience with natural building. The final goal of this project is to provide a refuge for homeless senior citizens to find shelter and companionship with the Parras Desarollo Integral de la Familia (DIF), as integration of the family and community is an important part of the Parras culture. DIF (http://www.dif.gob.mx/) is a nation-wide government organization based in Mexico City. They are a social service organization providing communities with essentials such as childcare services, food drives, public education concerning etiquite, proper nutrition, child rearing, etc. while creating a community center and support network for those who need it.

The shelter is to be constructed out of adobe, a natural building material that is widely used here in Parras. For many, public awareness of the benefits of using adobe, which is something we hope to do through this project. Adobe is a time-tested wonder, a building method that has low environmental impact, low overall cost, is ideal for warm climate areas, MORE ON ADOBE. This project also has provided hands on natural building education for the participants of the Parras 2006 summer program and DIF volunteers. Throughout construction, we have made efforts to recycle and reuse our materals.

General Description

The final construction will consist of one large room measuring 4.40 x 6 meters. The adobe walls are 30 cm thick, making the building itself 5 x 6.60 meters. The projected number of adobes needed to complete the shelter is approximately 1,300. (How did you calculate this? State methodology. Adobes are made offsite and transported to DIF.

THIS PLAN IS A WORK IN PROGRESS, figures not exact

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Location

The shelter is to be constructed in a small ranch town called Parras of approximately 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. The adobe blocks used to build the center were fabricated offsite from the DIF. The site provided ample storage space to allow approximately 250 adobe bricks to dry. We figured out this number first by approximating and then by seeing how many bricks we actually made in the given space.

Proposed Materials and Budget

Quantity Materials Source Cost (pesos) Total
8 Strawbales WHERE FROM? 50 400
4 Truckloads (HOW MUCH) Dirt WHERE FROM? 330 1420
4 Adoberas WHERE FROM? 120 120
(HOW MUCH) Water WHERE FROM? 200 200
TBD Bags Cement WHERE FROM? TBD TBD
Mortar DIF site Recycled Free
Rebar DIF site Recycled Free
Lime DIF site Already on site Free
Total Cost MATH

The only paid labor on this project is for the expertise and guidance of Martin, aka Ciro Liro. He has had over a decade of experience with making adobe and construction. All other labor is purely volunteer.

Too casual.

Address topics such as plumbing, wiring, windows, doors, framing, paint , sealant, plasters, required mortar, design, , equipment, actual cost of water, rooving, foundation 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: Preparing the Adobe Site


Process: Making the Adobe Mixture


Process: Making the Bricks

Process: Preparing the DIF Construction Site

Timeline

Week One: The first step of the process was learning and perfecting the art of making adobes. Each day about 200 adobes were made in a three to four hour period with a group of about 15 workers. Each day the progress moved more quickly.

day one: 27 bricks day two: 185 bricks day three: 166 bricks day four: 188 bricks

Week Two: With a quota of 1,400 adobes the adobe construction continued.

day five: 180 day six: Rain day seven: 54 day eight: 174 Total 974 Bricks

[the rest will be purchased at 3.50 pesos each]

Week Three: The building site, having been neglected for some time, needed to be cleaned and prepared for construction. A dead tree was removed, an out-of-commission adobe oven was taken down, and all of the inorganic trash was taken out. The materials taken from the adobe oven were used to level the ground in the area.

Week Four: The three foot foundation of the adobe oven was removed. Before taking it down, the large rocks and sand filling it were taken out. The rocks were piled for later use in the foundation, and the sand was saved to be used as mortar. Once removed, the walls were taken down with a sledge hammer.

Week Five: The sand from the foundation was sifted in order to be saved for mortar. The rocks sifted out were used for filling in holes in order to level the ground. The concrete was removed from the rebar in the foundation and saved for use on the building.

Week Six: Using the old adobe wall, and the DIF kitchen and office buildings as points of reference.

Project Participants

Project Coordinators

Project Participants

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

References

http://www.cahe.nmsu.edu/pubs/_g/G-521.pdf
http://www.terracruda.com/architetturadiffusione.htm
http://www.appropedia.org/index.php?title=Parras_Adobe
http://www.greenhomebuilding.com/adobe.htm
http://www.adobebuilder.com/
http://www.firebudd.com/adobe/
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