Earth Architecture
An earth structure is a building or other structure made largely from soil. Includes adobe or mud-brick buildings.
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Agadez | ||
| Ahwar of Southern Iraq | Sumerian sites | |
| Al Ain | mud brick constructions | |
| Al-Ahsa Oasis | Al-Qubbah Mosque and other buildings | |
| Arslantepe Mound | The Arslantepe mud-brick architecture, due to its antiquity, advanced technology, and state of preservation, is also an outstanding example of a traditional building system representative of a millenarian culture shared by all Near Eastern communities. (...) It has been widely exposed and preserved in perfect and integral state, with the original mud-brick walls, mud plaster and floors, internal features and paintings (...). (Executive summary, p. 4) | |
| Asante Traditional Buildings | ||
| Baekje Historic Areas | “Gongsanseong Fortress consists of both earthen wall sections and stone wall sections, although most parts are stone walls. The total length of the fortress amounts for 2,660m (stone walls: 1,925m; earthen walls: 735m).” - Nomination File | |
| Bahla Fort | Its ruined walls and towers | |
| Brú na Bóinne | Newgrange : henge | |
| Chan Chan | ||
| Cliff of Bandiagara | ||
| Coro and its Port | Coro's traditional buildings are built of earth - adobe, or earth reinforced in a technique known as "bahareque". | |
| Djenné | ||
| Fujian Tulou | ||
| Gyeongju | Wolseong Fortress "The fortress was built in 101 AD. The east, west, and north walls were built on stone/earth foundation covered with clay. -Kyongju by Kim, Yong-nam (published by Woojin Press, Seoul, Korea) 2008 | |
| Hahoe and Yangdong | Most of lower class houses in Yangdong are mud wall house | |
| Koutammakou | ||
| Ksar of Aït Ben Haddou | ||
| Mesa Verde | ||
| Orkhon Valley | Karakorum, Mud walls | |
| Paquimé | provide exceptional evidence of the development of adobe architecture in North America, and in particular of the blending of this with the more advanced techniques of Mesoamerica (OUV) | |
| Poverty Point | ||
| Quebrada de Humahuaca | ||
| Royal Palaces of Abomey | ||
| Shibam | ||
| Silk Roads | Jiahoe, Gaochang | |
| Sudanese style mosques | ||
| Taos Pueblo | ||
| Timbuktu | ||
| Tomb of Askia | ||
| Turaif Quarter | ||
| Yazd | Yazd is also one of the largest cities built almost entirely out of adobe. (wiki) | |
| Çatalhöyük | mud brick houses (AB ev) |
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