let's get muddy
Graduate Thesis 2023 Krishna Kakadia
Ritual 1: MAKING
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1. Adobe brick construction
4 2. Cob wall construction
3. Rammed earth construction 5
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construction
Wattle and daub
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Earth bag construction
Ritual 2: CARING
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1. The festival of crepissage at the Great Mosque of Djenne, Mali
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Embedded scaffolding acts as support for resurfacing
11 3. Resurfacing
using bare hands
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4. Resurfacing of Musgum mud huts in Cameroon
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5. Resurfacing of mud towers in Shibam
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Resurfacing using thappi (lime+mud) plaster in India
15 7. Stomping to mix mud, aggregate and water
Forms
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1. Sankore Mosque, Timbuktu
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2. Dar al-Islam Mosque, New Mexico, USA designed by Hassan Fathy, 1979
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3. Mud House, Rajasthan, India designed by Sketch Design Studio, 2021
20 a. Exterior
4. Windhover Contemplative Center, Stanford, CA designed by Hassan Aidlin Darling Design 2014
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Interior
b.
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Fort Union National Monument, New Mexico, USA
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6. Giant termite mound near Palmeiras, Brazil
Leimert Park
25 1. Leimart Park Village
26 2. Jazz festival
27 3. Events
on Leimert Art Walk aka People’s St.
28 4. Drum circle on Degnan Blvd.
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Open-mic Thursdays at KAOS Network owned by Ben Caldwell
Studies
31 1. Embedded scaffolding as seen in Sudano-Sahelian Architecture
2.a. Structural elements required to support the mud structure
b. Scaffolding elements required during the resurfacing ritual
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3. Layering of the adobe blocks around the lattice structure
34 4. Stacked adobe wall
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5. Resurfaced adobe wall
36 6. Resurfacing in progress
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