APPROPRIATE BUILDING TECHNOLOGY

DINA MOHAMED IHAB

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 APPROPRIATE BUILDING TECHNOLOGY
DEFINITION :
technology that is suitable to the social and economic
conditions of the geographic area in which it is to be
applied, is environmentally sound, and promotes self-
sufficiency on the part of those using it

environmental social government

HISTORY :

The first known of appropriate technology 1950

The appropriate technology movement grew
out of the energy crisis of the 1970s and focuses
mainly on environmental and sustainability
issues. Appropriate technology has been used
to address issues in a wide range of fields. Well-
known examples of appropriate technology
applications include: bike- and hand-powered
water pumps, the universal nut Sheller, self-
contained solar-powered light bulbs and
streetlights, and passive solar building designs.
Today appropriate technology is often
developed using open source principles, which
have led to open-source appropriate
technology and thus many of the plans of the
technology can be freely found on the Internet.
OSAT has been proposed as a new model of
enabling innovation for sustainable
development.
Dr. Ernst Friedrich "Fritz" Schumacher

One of the best-known early proponents and

popularizers of appropriate technology was the British
economist E. F. Schumacher, who talked about
'intermediate technology' in his book Small is Beautiful: A
Study of Economics as if People Mattered. He was
principally concerned with development in low-income
countries, and recommended a technology that was
aimed at helping the poor in these countries to do what
they were already doing in a better way. Schumacher's
intermediate technology had the following
characteristics:
1.methods and machines cheap enough to be accessible
to anyone;
2.small-scale application&emdash;individual smallness
allows nature to recover, is more sensible because human
knowledge is patchy, and is an appropriate scale for self-
help;
3. room for human creativity, as opposed to alienation
and dehumanization.
BUILDING MATERIALS:
Clay limestone Palm leaf Glass

Wood Bamboo straw stone

HOW TO APPLY?
1. Natural ventilation can be created by providing
vents in the upper level of a building to allow warm
air to rise by convection and escape to the outside,
while cooler air is drawn in through vents at the lower
level
2. A solar chimney often referred to as thermal chimney
improves this natural ventilation by using convection of
air heated by passive solar energy. To further maximize
the cooling effect, the incoming air may be led
through underground ducts before it is allowed to
enter the building.
3. A wind catcher (Badger; )‫بادگیر‬is a traditional
Persian architectural device used for many centuries
to create natural ventilation in buildings. It is not
known who first invented the wind catcher, but it still
can be seen in many countries today. Wind catchers
come in various designs, such as the uni-directional,
bi-directional, and multi-directional.
4. A passive down-draft cool tower may be used in a
hot, arid climate to provide a sustainable way to
provide air conditioning. Water is allowed to
evaporate at the top of a tower, either by using
evaporative cooling pads or by spraying water.
Evaporation cools the incoming air, causing a
downdraft of cool air that will bring down the
temperature inside the building.
 ADVANTAGE OF APPROPRIATE BUILDING TECHNOLOGY :

1.It works to reduce pollution of the environment

and to work to exploit the natural environment
resources around us
2. Helps sustain coexistence in different
environments
3. She works to feel the love of nature
4. Save money

DISADVANTAGE :

1. You need more time to work

2. Need to have adequate culture and
degradable 3.environmental conditions and
weather
4. Be more tired in work than other ways
EXAMPLES:
Waste Not: Exploring Alternative Building Materials
Can waste have a second life as sustainable building
material?

Future resilient cities will be constructed out of their

own refuse. This hypothesis was the spark for the
book, Building from Waste: Recovered Materials in
Architecture and Construction from ETH Zurich and
the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore.

Join the authors at swishes San Francisco alongside

local experts for a conceptual and practical look at
materials and products that use waste as a
renewable resource. Hear how mushrooms can be a
viable building material, how experiments in
architecture are incorporating unique products
focused on sustainability and renewal, and how San
Francisco’s Reclog is working towards zero waste for
the city by 2025.
Examples :
Gurna Mosque - Hassan FathyLocated in (Luxor, Egypt)
working to re-establish the use of mud
brick (adobe) and traditional as
opposed to western building designs
and lay-outs.

REFERANCE :
https://www.scribd.com/presentation/55117244/Desi
gn-Assignment
http://www.archidatum.com/articles/hassan-fathy-
and-the-architecture-for-the-poor-the-controversy-
of-success/
https://www.archdaily.com/tag/building-
technology-and-materials
http://listverse.com/2010/06/12/10-cases-of-
appropriate-technology/
https://www.gdrc.org/techtran/appro-tech.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appropriate_technology
https://www.uow.edu.au/~sharonb/STS300/technolo
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