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Advantages and Disadvantages of Adobe

Adobe is one of the oldest building materials still in use. It is made by mixing mud, clay, and sometimes straw, and is left to dry in the air to form bricks that are used to build walls. Although adobe has low strength and absorbs moisture, it has been historically used in many cultures due to its low cost and ease of access to materials.

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Advantages and Disadvantages of Adobe

Adobe is one of the oldest building materials still in use. It is made by mixing mud, clay, and sometimes straw, and is left to dry in the air to form bricks that are used to build walls. Although adobe has low strength and absorbs moisture, it has been historically used in many cultures due to its low cost and ease of access to materials.

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ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES.

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Apart from its highly advantageous features The qualities in disadvantage such as Education
construction materials are also UPTNM "Ludovico Silva"
known for their low conductivity Caripito, Monagas State
well known. Adobe is hygroscopic,
thermal that makes the constructions
tend a absorb moisture
so cozy adobe ones have
other equally practical ones, such as the atmospheric when the air is saturated
so that for this reason it loses its
fact that the raw material is
resistance to efforts, even those of
always present in the place of
its own weight. In the tropics after
construction with the savings
from a prolonged rain for several days,
consequent in its transport. Advantage
some walls collapse without
appreciable given the high volume of
intervention of no other force,
necessary materials to build them.
due to the humidity of the environment. THE ADOBE
Even though it can be done modernly
Their compressive strengths are
use machinery to manufacture bricks,
drops (from 3 to 5 Kg. per cm2) when
one can be so primitive to
it is dry and can be considered null
build like making balls of
mud and throw them forcefully against the to the traction efforts. For those
wall under construction and, additionally, same characteristics its manipulation
it becomes more difficult, the adobe bricks are
raise your height that way; everything they break down due to not having been 'healed' from
this handmade work, without in a way that they can withstand their handling Teacher: Bachiller(s):
no tools or instruments.
for placement in its place.
Maybe a fiber basket or a Calzadilla Yolanda 26.291.936
wooden paddle.

Caripito, February 2020


THE ADOBE MANUFACTURING AND USE OF HISTORY:
ADOBE
Adobe is one of the materials of One of the most well-known cities
older constructions still in use. Adobe bricks are made of: ancient, Çatalhöyük, in Anatolia,
It is a low-cost building material VII millennium before Christ, had the
cost and easy accessibility since it is Cieno houses built with adobe. In the
developed by local communities. The Clay Ancient Egypt himself employment
Adobe structures are generally And sometimes straw, or other fibers frequently the adobe, made
self-built, because the technique added for to endow of with Nile silt, in the construction of
traditional construction is simple and not resistance. houses, tombs (mastabas), fortresses, and
requires additional energy consumption. even palaces, although the Egyptians
The Best Land for Production of they were also the first to employ
The blocks adhere to each other with Adobe must have between 15% and 30% the carved stone for erecting temples,
clay to raise the facade walls of clay to bind the material pyramids y others buildings
or interior partitions of a dwelling. while the rest can be Sand or monumental.
It is common in semi-desert regions of coarser aggregates. Too much clay
Africa, Central and South America. it can produce cracks, while a In Spain, it is characteristic, among others
lack of this would produce fragmentation due to from the dry regions, of Castilla and
lack of cohesion. They compact. Lion where straw is added to the mud.
giving them the desired shape and then they It is also common in regions
let dry. The mixture is introduced into the semi-desert regions of Africa, America
mold and press onto the material. Central and South America (ranch.) The
Then it is taken out of the mold and left Adobe term, in Spanish, although
with the spelling adobes, appears for the first time
dry (cure) in the air for 10-14 days
to be used in the first already in 1139-1149, in the so-called
construction. "Fuero de Pozuelo de Campos" (today
Pozuelo de la Orden, in the Province of
It can come in different sizes and Valladolid.
forms. During the curing process not
it must be given sunlight during the first 5
days and throughout the entire curing period
They must not get wet in the rain.

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