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Report #170: Thathara houses in Himachal Pradesh 14 Jun 2013 | 12:48 pm
by Aditya Rahul, Ankita Sood, Yogendra Singh, Dominik H. Lang The addressed building type has been identified in Himachal Pradesh, a northern state in India. Nowadays, this type of construction p...
Report #174 : Concrete-block masonry construction in Pakistan 24 May 2013 | 01:22 am
by Sarosh Hashmat Lodi, Abdul Jabbar Sangi, Adam Abdullah This report provides an overview of concrete block masonry housing construction, which is generally found in urban areas of Pakistan. Block ma...
Report # 167 : Reinforced concrete buildings with masonry infills 24 Jan 2013 | 03:49 am
by Sarosh Hashmat Lodi, Abdul Jabbar Sangi, Adam Abdullah This report provides an overview of reinforced concrete buildings in Pakistan, which are mainly limited to urban regions of the country. Reinf...
Report # 166 : Adobe houses 3 Jan 2013 | 10:31 pm
by Sarosh Hashmat Lodi, Abdul Jabbar Sangi, Adam Abdullah This report provides an overview of adobe housing construction, which is widely distributed all over the country. Adobe construction covers 14...
Report #164: Reinforced concrete frame with lightly reinforced masonry infill 15 Oct 2012 | 11:42 pm
by Laura Redmond, Reginald DesRoches This type of home is a reinforced concrete frame building with brick infill on the second story. The infill may be lightly reinforced and the first story is either...
Report #165: Timber Stilt Homes 4 Oct 2012 | 12:32 am
by Laura Redmond, Reginald DesRoches This construction type is used as a single-family house. It is a single-story, detached building, found in the rural and suburban areas of the province of San Juan...
Report #154: Assam-type House 24 Mar 2012 | 05:45 am
by Hemant B. Kaushik, K. S. Ravindra Babu Assam-type houses are commonly found in the northeastern states of India. Generally, it is a single storey house; however, two-storey houses are also fou...
Report # 146: Dhajji Dewari 13 Mar 2012 | 06:33 am
by Kubilây Hiçyılmaz, Jitendra Bothara, Maggie Stephenson Dhajji dewari (Persian for “patch quilt wall”) is a traditional building type found in the western Himalayas. Such houses are found in bo...
Report #161: Confined and Internally Reinforced Concrete Block Masonry Building 3 Mar 2012 | 09:05 am
by Diego Velasquez Jofre, Lars Abrahamczyk, Jochen Schwarz The February 1976 earthquake caused severe damage to housing and buildings in Guatemala. Because many adobe houses were destroyed during the ...
Report # 108 : Half-timbered house in the “border triangle” (Fachwerkhaus im Dreiländereck) 16 Sep 2011 | 11:04 am
by Maria D. Bostenaru This type of construction can be found in both the urban and rural areas of Germany, Switzerland, northern France, and England. The main load-bearing structure is timber frame. B...
