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Morphing the Rules: Advanced Adaptations of Mud in Nigerian Buildings
Stephen Babatunde Ajadi
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DOI:10.17265/1934-7359/2024.08.002
Contemporary Initiative for Research in Design (CIRD), Nigeria
Mud is a ubiquitous building material in Nigeria, perhaps this is the reason why it is hardly seen as the outright building material that it is. The most popular contribution of mud to Nigerian architecture can only be seen in the ancient traditional huts all over the country. Although still a building material in the suburbs of the country, mud is seen as a relic of the past, a symbol of a primitive tale of Nigerian building construction. The primary effort here is to redefine mud as a “skin” with infinite possibilities of imagery and texture, rather than its typical application as a wall in Nigerian architecture. Mud is attempted to be expressed via a new geometric vocabulary by re-evaluating its surreptitious properties including its ability to behave like a formally defined NURBS (non-uniform rational basis spline) surface. The properties of mud and clay are unconventionally simulated in computer modelling and analysis software to understand the ways in which it can be optimized for advanced building applications. Streamlined calculations and algorithmic calculations serve as tools to discover the NURBS-propensity of mud. This provides a whole new low-cost construction opportunity for the building of irregularly flowing structures.
Comganisms, generate, morph, mud, skin, spline, texture.
Journal of Civil Engineering and Architecture 18 (2024) 373-383 doi: 10.17265/1934-7359/2024.08.002
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