Projeto de uma bioalvenaria de vedação a partir de terra crua: o caso do tijolo de adobe.

Abstract

Crude land is the oldest construction material in world and the usage of this kind of technique is present since man felt de need of building your own home. In Brazil there are many regions, mainly in North and Northweast, wich have potencial to usage of bioconstruction since crude land. In this context, the aim of that work is design a sealing biomasonry, since crude land, for social house buildings, in two cities of Cariri Paraibano, with characteristics of dry and hot weather. The building of adobe brick, when well executed, become very interesting. In addition, inside the building can be cooler, supporting the high outside temperature and the big thermal range. The usage of adobe brick in construction of social habitations in small cities, with a large availability of land stock, provides a semi-artisanal production process, relatively simple, apart from provide, to local population, habitations that can have superior quality of the traditional habitations of buildind construction industry, through a soccially fair and sustainable project.