Architecture by Adobe

 Architecture by Adobe

Adobe is a fibrous material made up of sand, clay, straw, dung, or other fibrous substances. The thickness of the adobe bricks is important in architecture. It is primarily in charge of keeping the buildings cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

Adobe is a fibrous material made up of sand, clay, straw, dung, or other fibrous substances.

The adobe is then sun-dried after being formed into bricks with frames. Similar to cob or mud bricks, the structures become extremely durable. They are most commonly used in hot, arid climates where they keep cool in the summer and slowly release heat in the winter.

When assembling dried adobe bricks to form a structure, the same mixture, minus the straw, is used as mortar. Some cultures even discovered that lime-based cement could be used to make plaster, which could be used to protect against the wet months.

The thickness of the adobe bricks is important in architecture. It is primarily in charge of keeping the buildings cool in the summer and warm in the winter.

The Bam Citadel was the largest Adobe structure ever built. It was, however, severely damaged by an earthquake in 2003.

Another magnificent adobe structure made of over 100 million signed bricks is Peru's Huaca del Sol.

Built as recently as 500 BCE, the citadel of Arg-e Bam may be the world's largest adobe architecture structure.

The Bam Citadel is 180,000 square meters in size and is surrounded by walls made of Adobe that are 6-7 meters high and 1815 meters long. Once the gates were closed, no human or animal could enter the city. The city was self-sufficient, with wells, gardens, and cattle all within its walls.

When it came to covering the structure with a roof, adobe architecture was a little different. Roofs were typically made of lengths of wood or metal. Rows of dried adobe bricks are then laid over the top of a support structure and plastered into place with more adobe.