Archinect - News2024-11-21T19:17:04-05:00https://archinect.com/news/article/103320360/with-dirt-and-a-vision-palestinian-architects-break-the-mold
With Dirt And A Vision, Palestinian Architects Break The Mold Alexander Walter2014-07-03T12:36:00-04:00>2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00
<img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/18/18ad40052bcc54c882e2cbd210cc5970?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>The city of Jericho sits in the hot, flat Jordan Valley down the hill from Jerusalem. Jericho has bragging rights as one of the oldest towns on Earth. But one of its newest homes looks like it might have arrived from outer space.
Ahmad Daoud hired a firm of young Palestinian architects to build this house. Like Jericho's original homes, it is built of dirt. This one has a contemporary twist, though: It's constructed with earth compacted in bags that are then stacked and plastered over.</p></em><br /><br /><!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd">
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