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UNESCO Chair Earthen Architecture :

Architecture de terre et développement des territoires
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[Documentary] Restoration of the Aranda’s hut in El Palmar, Valencia

UNESCO Chair Earthen Architecture by AE&CC the 03.27.2025 at 08:36:00 AM - Favorize ||  Read/Unread

This video shows the adaptive re-use that the Polytechnic University of Valencia made of a vernacular earthen hut (adobe, cob and wattle-and-daub) in the Valencia lagoon. This hut has needed to comply with the fire regulations, professional kitchen and public use, with a 10 cm cork and double layer of gypsum isolation and a doubled timber structure, burnished and waxed gypsum paving in the mezannine and burnished and waxed lime and earth paving in the ground floor.

AVEI’s Recent Milestones

UNESCO Chair Earthen Architecture by AE&CC the 03.25.2025 at 09:14:00 AM - Favorize ||  Read/Unread

Over the past six months, AVEI has continued to advance the field of earthen architecture through pioneering projects, strategic collaborations, and knowledge dissemination. Key consultancy engagements in India include the Meditation Centre in Gujarat, where AVEI is overseeing the construction of a 33m-diameter compressed stabilized earth block (CSEB) dome—one of the largest of its kind—and the Dhamma Arunachala Vipassana Hall in Tiruvannamalai, featuring an 18.2m-spanning segmental cloister dome designed to enhance the meditative experience. AVEI contributed to global discourse on sustainable construction through engagements […]

BASEhabitat Postgraduate

UNESCO Chair Earthen Architecture by schwantner ulrike the 02.13.2025 at 09:28:00 PM - Favorize ||  Read/Unread

You are looking to deepen your expertise in socially and environmentally responsible architecture. Applications are now open!

BASEhabitat Summer School 2025

UNESCO Chair Earthen Architecture by schwantner ulrike the 02.13.2025 at 08:15:00 PM - Favorize ||  Read/Unread

July 06 - 20, 2025 Learn how to build with earth and plant fibres and discuss their use in contemporary architecture. Apply now!

UNESCO Chair : report of activities 2020-2024

UNESCO Chair Earthen Architecture by AE&CC the 12.16.2024 at 04:41:00 PM - Favorize ||  Read/Unread

The UNESCO Chair in Earthen Architecture, Building Cultures and Sustainable Development, created in 1998, is held by the CRAterre team of the Architecture, Environments and Building Cultures research unit at the Grenoble School of Architecture, France. CRAterre is working to gain recognition for the earth material and, more broadly, to make the most of all local resources (materials, skills, knowledge and methods of organisation). To achieve this, it is pursuing three major general objectives: i) to make better use of local human, natural and […]