Desk Research & Primary Findings Issued on: 30th August 2023 Table Of Contents 1. Background…………………………………………………………………………. 2 1.2. Overview of Compressed Earth Blocks………………………………….. 2 1.3. Advantages of Compressed Earth Blocks……………………. 3 1.4. Disadvantages or limitations of Compressed Earth Blocks……………………………………………………………………………….. 4 2. Primary Explorative Research Findings……………………………….. 4 2.1. Knowledge and techniques used when building using Compressed Earth…

Desk Research & Primary Findings Issued on: 30 August 2023 Table of Contents 1. Background…………………………………………………………………………. 2 1.1 Overview of Straw and Grass as a Building Material………………….. 2 2. Types of Straw and Grass used as a Building Material in Lesotho…………………………………………………………………………………… 2 2.1. Cereal straw……………………………………………………………………. 2 2.2. Wild grass………………………………………………………………………. 3 2.2.1. Highveld Grassland ( Lowlands)…………………………………… 4…

Desk Research & Primary Findings Issued on: 30th August 2023 Table Of Content 1. Background…………………………………………………………………………. 2 1.1. Overview of Wool……………………………………………………………… 2 1.2. Wool as a building material…………………………………………………. 2 1.3. Wool bricks……………………………………………………………………… 3 3. Disadvantages of Wool………………………………………………………… 4 4. Primary Explorative Research Findings……………………………….. 5 4.1. Availability of Wool……………………………………………………………. 5 4.2. Cost of Wool……………………………………………………………………. 6 5. Feasibility…

Desk Research & Primary Findings Issued on: 30th August 2023 Table of Contents 1. Background…………………………………………………………………………. 2 1.1.Overview of Waste as a Building Material……………………………….. 2 2. Categories of Waste Material for the Built Industry………………. 2 2.1 Glass Bottles Used as a Building Material……………………………….. 3 2.1.1 Techniques Used when Building with Glass……………………… 4 2.1.2 Advantages of Glass…

Desk Research & Primary Findings Issued on:30th August 2023 Table of Contents 1. Background…………………………………………………………………………. 2 1.1 Overview of Hemp…………………………………………………………….. 2 1.2. Characteristics of Hempcrete………………………………………………. 3 1.3. Uses of Hemp as a Building Material…………………………………….. 4 2. Advantages of Hempcrete Blocks………………………………………… 5 3. Disadvantages of Hempcrete Blocks……………………………………. 6 4. Primary Explorative Research  Findings………………………………. 6 4.1. Research Methodology……………………………………………………….…

Desk Research & Primary Findings Issued on: 30th August 2023 Table of Contents 1. Background on Sandstone……………………………………………………….. 2 1.1. Overview of Sandstone……………………………………………………… 2 1.2. Geomorphology of Sandstone in Lesotho………………………………. 3 1.3. Sandstone Formations………………………………………………………. 4 2. Advantages of Sandstone……………………………………………………. 7 3. Disadvantages of Sandstone……………………………………………….. 8 4. Desk Analysis……………………………………………………………………… 8 5. Primary Explorative Research Findings……………………………….. 9 5.1…

August is a thrilling month that brings excitement and lots of activities through our international workshop which is led by the in loco Director Luca Astorri. We have three young passionate architects and an international law student who came all the way from Greece, Belgium, and Italy to Lesotho, and joined our in loco fellows…

rise International is happy to see one of its long-serving team members,  Retsepile Rammoko making his way to the United Kingdom where he will pursue a Master’s in Design For Change at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland. Retsepile is already a University of Pretoria graduate holding both a BSc Architecture Degree and a Hons…

🚀We are thrilled to announce the successful launch of the Research and Innovation program in March 2022! Our mission is to revolutionize sustainable construction materials and significantly reduce environmentally damaging carbon emissions, particularly from concrete and cement. Thanks to the generous support of a capacity-building and knowledge exchange grant funded by Irish Aid, in partnership…

We are excited and proud to introduce our in loco fellows for 2023 Meet our in loco 2023 fellowship team. This year we are happy to announce that we have reached another milestone. These fellows are the cream of the crop that was picked out of the largest pool of hopefuls, as we had the…