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    The document summarizes the construction of a community clinic called the "Casita de Salud" in Mexico using a sustainable building technique called "Superadobe." A group that included a Swiss photographer, activist, and wanderer worked with the local community to plan and build the clinic. They dug foundations, made building materials from local dirt, gravel, and sand, and worked together to construct load-bearing earthen walls reinforced with barbed wire, add plaster, a roof, windows and doors. The goal was to provide an affordable, sustainable, and replicable design to address the community's lack of adequate housing and healthcare facilities.

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    The document summarizes the construction of a community clinic called the "Casita de Salud" in Mexico using a sustainable building technique called "Superadobe." A group that included a Swiss photographer, activist, and wanderer worked with the local community to plan and build the clinic. They dug foundations, made building materials from local dirt, gravel, and sand, and worked together to construct load-bearing earthen walls reinforced with barbed wire, add plaster, a roof, windows and doors. The goal was to provide an affordable, sustainable, and replicable design to address the community's lack of adequate housing and healthcare facilities.

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    What Do U Dream About WEB

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    The document summarizes the construction of a community clinic called the "Casita de Salud" in Mexico using a sustainable building technique called "Superadobe." A group that included a Swiss photographer, activist, and wanderer worked with the local community to plan and build the clinic. They dug foundations, made building materials from local dirt, gravel, and sand, and worked together to construct load-bearing earthen walls reinforced with barbed wire, add plaster, a roof, windows and doors. The goal was to provide an affordable, sustainable, and replicable design to address the community's lack of adequate housing and healthcare facilities.

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    Dreaming with Eyes Wide Open

    Want to take a look ?

    Go ahead !

    As in other parts of Mexico, the people at the LpezHernndez community live in temporary houses.

    As in other parts in Mexico, the root problem is not the lack of a house, but the lack of work.

    WORK MONEY

    HOUSE

    Give a man a fish and he will eat one day. Teach a man how to fish and he will eat every day.

    Meche

    Michel

    Cato

    Community

    Michele, a Swiss photographer, Mercedes, a committed activist and me, Cato, a wanderer, joined efforts, to look for a feasible alternative. The peoples participation would be fundamental.

    We decided to build using Superadobe

    Affordable

    Sustainable

    Easy to duplicate

    Flexible

    But, with so many things lacking, what would we build?

    Visitors center?

    Sample house?

    Toilets?

    CASITA DE SALUD (clinic)

    To make our little plan work, we made a little blueprint.

    Kitchen-dinning

    Dorm Entrance

    Examination Room

    N
    N

    Then, we picked, cleaned, prepared and dug the best building site !

    We made several piles with different types of dirt. We did some test, and we found out the best mix with which to build our Superadobe.

    We wanted to have a clean slate to work on. So, we leveled the site!

    When it was ready, our little blueprint got a lot bigger.

    And then, it got deep !

    Once it was deep enough, we went to the nearby river, got a couple of truck loads of gravel, and filled it back in !

    And we kept doing it, but, since we were using the Rubble Trench foundation system, we put the gravel inside rows of double bags !

    Did you see our compass ?

    We did it like this until we were higher than grade level !

    We then were ready to start building the walls with superadobe.

    Tie and place the bag

    Fill the bag up

    Tamp it !

    We got better and better every time !

    We used heavy duty plastic sheet to prevent ground moisture !

    Check our door forms out

    Only nineteen more rows to go !

    At first, we used rocks to hold the barbed wire in place

    This is what the other side looked like !


    It is difficult to see, but there are two lines of barbed wire between each row of bags !

    But then, we got smarter and started filling plastic bottles with sand and attached twine cord to them to hold the barbed wire

    Slowly but steady.

    There are nine windows and four doors

    Here for example

    To save wood, we borrowed a few blocks to make our doors and windows forms.

    No need for reinforced concrete lintels if we use arcs

    It was a lot of work, but finding solutions as challenges showed up was stimulating !

    Yesthe plaster is mostly dirt.

    After we finished the arcs, we started with the plaster.

    We then removed the forms, plastered both sides and started working on different details.

    A skylight

    Since our resources were limited, we had to use galvanized metal sheets for our roof.

    Our first reciprocal roof. I was close to brain meltdown figuring out how to do it !

    Butit puts a smile in our eyes now !

    This is what it looks like after the second layer of plaster !

    Remember the other side ?

    The faade !

    Our cob benches on the entrance are almost ready !

    Stone work
    D E

    Wine bottles

    T
    A I L

    A foot washing bin

    Bamboo

    KITCHEN-DINING

    A. Window B. Built-in shelves C. Electricity


    C

    KITCHEN-DINING

    A. Main entrance B. Door to bedroom


    B

    B A

    BEDROOM

    A. Door to the kitchen B. Built-in night table

    BEDROOM

    A. East windows B. Built-in night table


    B

    EXAMINATION ROOM

    A. Door to kitchen B. Built-in cabinets


    B

    BUILDING DOORS AND WINDOWS FORMS

    Recycled pallets !

    Start

    A bit higher

    Place the arc

    Fan bags !

    Almost there !

    Remove it !

    Done !

    DETAILS

    Learning together

    French friends

    Communal work

    We are almost there ! Would you like to help us ?

    ..Be Humble, for you are made of earth, Be Noble, for you are made of stars
    Serbian proverb

    GRACIAS

    and YOU, What do you dream about ?

    Cato
    moradasverdes@gmail.com

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