Investigations on construction with earth

Abstract

Housing, refuge of humanity since ancient times has been transformed according to the needs of society: climatological factors, protection against natural disasters and the two pandemics that so- ciety has lived through have radically changed its design. The materials that have been used for its construction have evolved from the natural and sustainable to the processed, therefore, the cons- truction industry has become one of the most po- lluting and it is the responsibility of the builders to look for materials and construction systems with low impact and minimal carbon footprint. Research on sustainable materials and eco tech- niques is scarce; therefore, the objective of this paper is to disseminate earther construction re- search as a possible solution to this problem, pre- senting different construction techniques. The prototypes and research that have been carried out in the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism of the uat Campus Tampico-Madero, not only seek to validate ancestral techniques as safe, under regulations and laboratory tests, but also to innovate in the search for combinations and sustainable materials. Finally, the discussions address the issue of how the gender perspective affects such research.