Handmade Modern Buildings Created Using Old Tactics

Anna Heringer, Architect and Visiting Professor at the University of Art and Design Linz, Austria, helps communities build handmade buildings and uses "architecture as a means to strengthen cultural and individual confidence, to support the economies and encourage local ecological balance." Use of local materials and techniques, hand made buildings Heringer allow communities to own architectural solutions. These hand made buildings to save land for agriculture. Like the traditional mud houses and schools become more resistant through improved construction techniques including protection against moisture and a strong base of land, water and rice straw. The cows, instead of machinery, mixing. Heringer says, "What I hope is that we will be able to establish a trend in a regional fresh style that motivates people to their traditional construction methods." References: anna-heringer and treehugger.