Friday, May 16, 2008

LOW COST, EARTHQUAKE RESISTANT HOUSE

Arun Deshpande & Arch. Girish Kulkarni from Solapur have developed structure for
Particular earthquake affected region. A
Village is developed by this technology at
Kacha, Gujarat. They constructed homes
Of 50sqm to 200sqm at Kach. The Steel structure of this technology as per given in image.
Material used to dome is steel angles, 2”& 4”sq. steel mesh, chicken mesh, steel discs, sand, stone crush etc. The concrete slab thickness is 1.5” to 2”. This low cost technology is appreciated by Gujrat govt. & villagers.

2 comments:

uday said...

good post...

Chizzer said...

That's a very cool design for a structure, and incredibly smart.

It's amazing how necessity breeds such clever innovations.