{"id":45899,"key":"SECU_-_Sustainable_Emerging_City_Unit","title":"SECU - Sustainable Emerging City Unit","latest":{"id":1263235,"timestamp":"2026-09-02T13:14:02Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:SECU project 05.jpg|thumb]]\n\n{{Project data\n| authors = Ethiopian Institute for Architecture Building Construction and City Development (EiABC)\n| status = Prototyped\n| type = Straw bale construction\n| location = Ethiopia\n}}\n\nThe SECU building is a double-storey experimental prototype to present a provocative and innovative design for housing for emerging settlements, as well as inspiring the construction industry and the government and decision makers at large. The research discusses the potentials of innovative building materials for fast growing housing solutions in Ethiopia. The building was realized in 3 months with experts and students from EiABC together with the chair of building construction. The whole house was structurally built out of compressed straw board panels.\n\nThe prototype building was constructed by researchers and students at the Ethiopian Institute for Architecture, Building Construction and City Development (EiABC) in collaboration with Bauhaus Universität Weimar and ETH Zürich. The material used is strawpanels by STRAWTECH building solutions.\n\nlearn more at:\n\n* [http://web.archive.org/web/20170709190343/http://eiabc.edu.et/secu-project/ SECU project page at EiABC website]\n* [http://web.archive.org/web/20130504220520/http://infar.architektur.uni-weimar.de:80/service/drupal-infar/WelcomeAfrica Bauhaus University website]\n* [http://icebauhaus.sudile.com/index.php/Concept_-_Test_-_Realization icebauhaus wiki]\n\n<gallery mode=slideshow>\nFile:SECU_projekt_01.JPG|Roof\nFile:SECU_project_02.JPG|side-view\nFile:SECU-project_03.JPG|full view - construction\nFile:SECU_project_04.JPG|material\nFile:SECU_project_05.jpg|full view - finished\n</gallery> </center>\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = Housing, Construction, Alternative building, Sustainable buildings, Strawbale\n| organizations = Bauhaus Universität Weimar, ETH Zürich\n}}\n\n[[Category:Housing]]\n[[Category:Construction]]\n[[Category:Alternative building]]\n[[Category:Sustainable buildings]]\n[[Category:Strawbale]]"}