What are Stabilized Mud Blocks? Stabilized Mud Blocks (SMBs) are an alternative green Building that can be used as an alternative to Bricks or ACC blocks. Bricks and ACC blocks used more energy to produce than SMBs. SMBs are made from a mixture of locally available soil, water, and stabilizers such as cement, lime, or fly ash. The exact proportions of each material may vary depending on the type of soil and stabilizer used, as well as the desired properties of the SMBs. However, a general guideline for SMB production is: Soil: The soil used in SMB production should be clayey or silty, with low sand content. The ideal soil should have a plasticity index (PI) between 10 and 20, and a pH value between 6 and 7.5. Water: The water used in SMB production should be clean and free from impurities. Stabilizers: The stabilizers used in SMB production include cement, lime, or fly ash. The amount of stabilizer used will depend on the type of stabilizer and the soil characteristics. Typically, the
So, basically there is 3 things that will increase you architecture skill (or i should say instinct),
- mathematical understanding
- ability to quantify design ideas
- common sense (most people doesn't know how to use it!)
well, there are some exercise and/or skill set you can do/learn to improvise your understanding about architecture.
Let's start with core skill...
1. Sketch:
Yes! Sketch. improve your sketching skills, try drawing random things like chain of circle or just lines. this will help you get command oh your hand. because one wise man said "practice makes the person perfect! "
don't have fear of sketching! to sketch an object or a building is way easy than you thing! just see the pictures below
at first you will be confused from where to start?
just see at these images again from whole to part... there are only geometrical shapes(i.e., square, triangle, arc), in only 2 planes vertical & horizontal. that's it!
now you have to just practice for these geometrical shapes only! so, start drawing geometries!
2. Learn basic html:
At first you think why to learn an computer language?
but html will excel you in thinking critically about your design. It will help you to quantify your design! because if you design a page in html you have to aware of it fully from a basic line to characteristic of font to image. i mean you have to design every inch of that layout. which will help you while designing a space. you will be start thinking every inch of the space & its utilization.
because in architecture every inch is valuable. you can not waste space in real world!!
3. Memory Mapping:
This one is awesome exercise for newbies in architecture, just make a map of a place from google maps or some other way. just draw the road only nothing else, make it in scale say 1 cm = 1 mt. make sure that place is near by to you. now go to that place and just see things around you.
Initially, go quickly & come back to your place, now open that maps and start making those those place which you have seen & write about that place in detail in other book.
now go again to that place & explore other things. come back & do it again.
doing it again & again makes you realize that how much your observation power is weak or strong! do it with friends & compare what they have missed & what you have observed & how much detail you can perceive!
you can do it in many ways. by walking down to streets, go out by car, go there and sit there to observe. you will see the difference !
you will see how your travelling speed makes you observe things and why some building design in a way. okay, let me put it in other way, have you ever notice why the hording in street is more decorative then one you see on the national highway! i hope now you had got my point!
4. Write something about your project before starting designing:
Just write something, it can be description about your project, or a thought about the whole project or anything. it should only have to relate your project.
just make an statement about your project in big bold letters.
That will help you improve by the time about your decision taking ability. you will see at the end of the project that how your initial thought or idea has turned in to the building. it is not always necessary that what ever you think can always be done 100%. I think it will make you more reasonable architect than others.
The Written line can be a single statement or else a bunch of ideas or a strong concept! but it must have written explanation about itself!
5. Practice Detailing:
Each & every building needs detail of its execution, otherwise what is looks good on paper can not always been build if it has not details of it. even smaller things need details of how it could possibly made. even the basic things around you has detailed so well that you can use it comfortably.
just look around you, even thickness of pencil is designed & detail by someone.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( very well known German Architect ) once said that "God is in the detail"
from detail i doesn't mean about working drawing! its a whole other things. you just pay attention the detailing which helps the thing or object or a structure more useful, or beautiful or more comfortable than it was before.
I Hope you like the article, please comment below your suggestions!
don't have fear of sketching! to sketch an object or a building is way easy than you thing! just see the pictures below
at first you will be confused from where to start?
just see at these images again from whole to part... there are only geometrical shapes(i.e., square, triangle, arc), in only 2 planes vertical & horizontal. that's it!
now you have to just practice for these geometrical shapes only! so, start drawing geometries!
2. Learn basic html:
At first you think why to learn an computer language?
but html will excel you in thinking critically about your design. It will help you to quantify your design! because if you design a page in html you have to aware of it fully from a basic line to characteristic of font to image. i mean you have to design every inch of that layout. which will help you while designing a space. you will be start thinking every inch of the space & its utilization.
because in architecture every inch is valuable. you can not waste space in real world!!
3. Memory Mapping:
This one is awesome exercise for newbies in architecture, just make a map of a place from google maps or some other way. just draw the road only nothing else, make it in scale say 1 cm = 1 mt. make sure that place is near by to you. now go to that place and just see things around you.
Initially, go quickly & come back to your place, now open that maps and start making those those place which you have seen & write about that place in detail in other book.
now go again to that place & explore other things. come back & do it again.
doing it again & again makes you realize that how much your observation power is weak or strong! do it with friends & compare what they have missed & what you have observed & how much detail you can perceive!
you can do it in many ways. by walking down to streets, go out by car, go there and sit there to observe. you will see the difference !
you will see how your travelling speed makes you observe things and why some building design in a way. okay, let me put it in other way, have you ever notice why the hording in street is more decorative then one you see on the national highway! i hope now you had got my point!
4. Write something about your project before starting designing:
Just write something, it can be description about your project, or a thought about the whole project or anything. it should only have to relate your project.
just make an statement about your project in big bold letters.
That will help you improve by the time about your decision taking ability. you will see at the end of the project that how your initial thought or idea has turned in to the building. it is not always necessary that what ever you think can always be done 100%. I think it will make you more reasonable architect than others.
The Written line can be a single statement or else a bunch of ideas or a strong concept! but it must have written explanation about itself!
5. Practice Detailing:
Each & every building needs detail of its execution, otherwise what is looks good on paper can not always been build if it has not details of it. even smaller things need details of how it could possibly made. even the basic things around you has detailed so well that you can use it comfortably.
just look around you, even thickness of pencil is designed & detail by someone.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ( very well known German Architect ) once said that "God is in the detail"
from detail i doesn't mean about working drawing! its a whole other things. you just pay attention the detailing which helps the thing or object or a structure more useful, or beautiful or more comfortable than it was before.
I Hope you like the article, please comment below your suggestions!
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