I bet peaches are expensive in that area too, because there are no peach trees.
Concrete costs about $160 USD per cubic meter both in the USA and in Zaire (first African country I cound find a price), that works out to $4 USD a 35 kg bag, but in this case it's mixed and ready to pour.
If concrete factories were more common there there, I'm sure the price would be comparable for a material that is easier to work with, requires far less labor, etc etc. But they don't, and their traditional techniques work well for the area they're in. The moral to this story is, use what's local and does the job, and I feel like the only thing I got out of the video is some cool visuals of dudes building with bricks.
Of course, clay has a lot of benefits over concrete. It's lighter, insulates better, they can dig it out of the ground!
> The moral to this story is, use what's local and does the job
The content of the video is specifically directed at people of the developing world:
> this is the catastrophic reality I say in developing countries we have to go back to using natural building materials. historically we have a very rich examples of vernacular architecture that still stands we have to go back to our
traditions to learn from but in the same time keeping up with the immense
scientific progress so that a person from the 21st century can enjoy modern
life commodities examples from South of France and Germany
I guess titles for any documentary are going to be at least a bit intriguing, which could be the same as clickbait? But the full YouTube video title does specify it's talking about/to Africa:
"i'd rather build my house with my own earth than go into debt, Green Architecture, Africa"
Concrete costs about $160 USD per cubic meter both in the USA and in Zaire (first African country I cound find a price), that works out to $4 USD a 35 kg bag, but in this case it's mixed and ready to pour.
If concrete factories were more common there there, I'm sure the price would be comparable for a material that is easier to work with, requires far less labor, etc etc. But they don't, and their traditional techniques work well for the area they're in. The moral to this story is, use what's local and does the job, and I feel like the only thing I got out of the video is some cool visuals of dudes building with bricks.
Of course, clay has a lot of benefits over concrete. It's lighter, insulates better, they can dig it out of the ground!