Uploaded on 2014-12-05 by DaniTeixeira

Because of the abundance of those materials in Brazil and the extensively extraction activity through mining, the steel, cement and sand uses normally comes from the country, but using abroad specific technologies and equipment for processing and production, so as the use of equipment in construction site, most of them coming from Germany, South Africa and Asian technologies and companies. In that sense, the only approach to advantage of popular construction materials in Brazil is the use of clay brick blocks. Although its fabrication process is imported from abroad, its production uses the native red clay, an abundant material in all areas of Brazil that has more close approach of our colonial vernacular cob wall architecture, very well adapted to our tropical climate range. The main problem of using the red clay blocks occurs due to the lack of compatibility of the architectural and complementary design (electrical and water/sewage projects): the design normally does not consider the modules of the bricks nor the sequencing of the construction: these complementary projects are normally built after the wall is built, generating an incredible amount of waste materials. Although the vernacular architecture of Brazil has its roots on indigenous culture such as structure made out of bamboo, palm trees, coconut trees leaves for roofing; and later on during colonial age with cob wall (made out of bamboo framing, tied with liana and covered with clay), almost all of the popular constructions never use any approach of the vernacular method, putting all the pressure on global resources and economy for manipulating, producing and using materials and equipment instead. ![Construction in downtown Belo Horizonte, Brazil][1] [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14178149951562464.jpg