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Mudbrick or mud-brick, also known as unfired brick, is an air-dried brick, made of a mixture of mud (containing loam, clay, sand and water) mixed with a binding material such as rice husks or straw. Mudbricks are known from 9000 BCE.
Adobe is Spanish for mudbrick. In some English-speaking regions of Spanish heritage, such as the Southwestern United States, the term is used to refer to any kind of earthen construction, or various architectural styles like Pueblo Revival or Territorial Revival. Most adobe buildings are similar in appearance to cob and rammed earth buildings ...
Mudbrick construction was used at Çatalhöyük, from c. 7,400 BC. [5] Mudbrick structures, dating to c. 7,200 BC have been located in Jericho, Jordan Valley. [6] These structures were made up of the first bricks with dimension 400x150x100 mm. [7] Between 5000 and 4500 BC, Mesopotamia had discovered fired brick. [7]
The Great Mosque of Djenné in Mali, the largest mud-brick building in sub-Saharan Africa [1]. Sudano-Sahelian architecture refers to a range of similar indigenous architectural styles common to the African peoples of the Sahel and Sudanian grassland (geographical) regions of West Africa, south of the Sahara, but north of the fertile forest regions of the coast.
Mudrocks, by definition, consist of at least fifty percent mud-sized particles. Specifically, mud is composed of silt-sized particles that are between 1/16 – 1/256 ((1/16) 2) of a millimeter in diameter, and clay-sized particles which are less than 1/256 millimeter. Mudrocks contain mostly clay minerals, and quartz and feldspars.
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In the field of archaeology this term refers to a wall base, frequently of stone, that supports the upper part of the wall, which is made of a different material – frequently mudbrick. This was a typical building practice in ancient Greece , resulting in the frequent preservation of the plans of ancient buildings only in their stone-built ...
The ruins of Ayn Asil in Dakhla, Egypt. In architecture, a Nubian vault is a type of curved surface forming a vaulted structure. The mudbrick structure was revived by Egyptian architect Hassan Fathy after re-discovering the technique in the Nubian village of Abu al-Riche.