\n<\/a>Building with mud and steel frames is an interesting hybrid between industrial and non-industrial technologies. Two examples:<\/p>\n
“The design recalls recent works by the Chilean architect Marcelo Cortes<\/a>, who employs a steel meshwork onto which mud is sprayed, but on a far greater scale. Cortes has developed a “quincha metalica”, a form of traditional quincha<\/a> construction (mud and straw packed between a bamboo or wood frame) that uses a steel frame work.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n<\/a> “Kazakh architect and artist Saken Narynov<\/a> created a superstructure able to host what we could call an adobe vertical city<\/a>. In fact, the structure is used as a matrix that can be more or less densely filled with multifamily habitation units. The traditional earth based material thus hybrids with the steel structure in a very unusual and interesting way and the space resulting between the habitation units and the structure is beautifully occupied by mazes of staircases and elevated pathways.”<\/p>\n