ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 11月12日 02時09分

Adobe mud bricks are one of the world’s most commonly used building materials. An estimated 30% of the global population — from Africa to India to parts of Europe — resides in earthen structures. But many of the zones around the world where earthen architecture is prevalent also happen to be seismically active, resulting in adobe that is prone to crumbling in an earthquake. That doesn’t mean adobe will no longer be used, conservators say, or that existing structures shouldn’t be adapted to make them safer. Now, conservators are rigorously testing seismic retrofits to provide evidence of their effectiveness in Peru. If successful, the techniques could be rapidly applied to hundreds of similar buildings in that region alone. “It’s very well known here in Peru that earthen construction can withstand earthquakes if they are properly built and maintained,” said Claudia Cancino, the project lead of the Seismic Retrofitting Project, an initiative of the Los Angeles-based Getty Conservation Institute. “But there was no science behind it, no data.” @barrios.altos took this photo of a mason at work making adobe bricks for the Church of Santiago Apóstol. Visit the link in our profile to see more.

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