The warmth and wisdom of mud buildings | Anna Heringer

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🗓️ 28 September 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

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"There are a lot of resources given by nature for free -- all we need is our sensitivity to see them and our creativity to use them," says architect Anna Heringer. Heringer uses low-tech materials like mud and bamboo to create structures from China to Switzerland, Bangladesh and beyond. Visit an awe-inspiring school, an elegant office and cozy social spaces -- all built from natural materials -- in this delightful talk.

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0:00.0	This TED Talk features architect Anna Harringer,
0:03.0	recorded live at TED-2017.
0:08.0	It was the end of October in the mountains in Austria.
0:12.0	I was there on a field trip with my architecture students from Zurich.
0:16.0	And when we reached a high valley,
0:20.0	I surprised them with the news that there was no hot a hotel booked for the night.
0:25.6	It was not a mistake, it was totally on purpose.
0:30.6	The challenge was to build our own shelter with whatever we could find.
0:36.6	And we could find.
0:39.3	And we all survived.
0:40.1	It was cold.
0:41.2	It was really tough.
0:44.6	And it was a great learning experience to discover that there are a lot of resources
0:47.4	given by nature for free.
0:49.1	And all that we need is our sensitivity to see them
0:52.6	and our creativity to use them. I found myself in a similar
1:00.0	situation. When I was an architecture student about 13 years ago, I went to Bangladesh to a remote
1:07.9	village called Dutupur with the aim to design and build a school
1:11.7	as Mathesis project.
1:13.6	I had lived in that village before when I was 19, and a volunteer at Dipsika, a Bangladeshi
1:17.9	NGO for rural development.
1:19.8	And what I had learned from them was that the most sustainable strategy for sustainable development
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