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Mud is the natural building material - mihika mathur - 08-16-2014

Mud is the natural building material

Mud is the natural building material, mud is harmonized with all environments and good for being a passive air-conditioning system.
Thus living in mud-house is comfortable year round. Frugality and reuse in mud house construction can create tremendous saving in environmental impact, energy use and capital expenditure.

It can be found mostly in hot-dry and arid area like some parts of India, Nepal, China, African continent and even in the West Side of North and South American continent.

Mud brick vaults and domes are common in countries like Iran and Egypt. Many communities in the north and northeast of Thailand also live-in and build their dwellings with mud.

All mud-house constructions use just simple local materials, mainly are soil and water, added up with paddy husky or rice straw or local fiber weed. The subordinate materials can be anything from garbage recycling, such as bottles, cans, newspaper, etc. Besides that, the mudded walls are mostly massive, which help a year around stabilize temperature inside houses of about 24°c to 26°c. [ 2 ]

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