Forest Zone Vernacular Architecture

mekelle university

Project idea

The aim of this project is basically to apply the appropriate building technology, material and skill to construct a modified vernacular housing typology at KAFFA forest zone located at the southern part of the country Ethiopia.

which ultimately use the most abundant building material available throughout the site , which is Bamboo.

Project description

a clear and comprehensive analysis has been made in order to understand the overall social and environmental interaction , since we are about to find out some basic solutions to modify such nature based vernacular architecture.

having the deep analysis in mind we have gone several looks on different case studies for further imagination and understanding the typology , here in the project KAFFA societies lives in a compound so that their is more communal life style than individualism so the we provided services which basically shared by the compound dwellers , in addition to the Kaffa societies life is based in agriculture and livestock , which basically lead us to provide an alternate way of gaining energy from a bio-gas system.

we believe , such measures and modification factors should be applied in order to maintain the longstanding typology of this remarkable vernacular housing.

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Technical information

The entire construction of the houses are based on Bamboo ,

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Co-authors

Yordanos D. and Ruth T.