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February 27, 2007

Woodless Construction

For some time now I have been very interested in woodless construction and we have now decided to build the Djibo FM studio in this way.

These buildings use only mud bricks, thereby saving the Sahel's precious trees. They are very stable and very nice to look at. Great.

Here is a sketch of the proposed studio. I'm afraid it doesn't give a very good impression of the beautiful domes and vaults of the mud-brick roofs though. You'll have to browse the galleries of DW's official woodless construction website for that.

Talking of woodless construction, Keith has been building some woodless houses for the flood victims over in Gorom-Gorom and yesterday he posted this heart-warming story about the ceremony they had to hand over the keys of the new houses.

Posted by sahelsteve at February 27, 2007 12:14 PM