A Selection of Documents
Produced by DW members in PDF format
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Indigenous
Building and the Third World |
In 1976, DW, based in Iran, mounted an 40
panel exhibition that was shown first in the Iran America Society in Tehran,
then at the Habitat Conference in Vancouver, Canada and subsequently at
other locations in north America. The exhibition and accompanying book
outline a vision of development based on a respect for the indigenous
which nearly thirty years on remains pertinent.
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The
Grameen Bank housing loans programme in Bangladesh |
This article was written by J. Norton, DW, after a review of the Grameen Bank housing loans programme for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, which it was awarded in 1989. This example of loans to the poor for house building highlighted the idea of targeting the loan to make sure that houses are flood and storm resistant. DW’s current work in Viet Nam incorporates a similar idea (Link to VN as well). |
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Sustainable
shelter |
An article that appeared first in Habitat News in 1999 that considers the characteristics of sustainable approaches to achieving shelter |
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Woodless
Construction |
unstabilised earth brick vault and dome roofing built without
formwork. This document, which first appeared in 1997 under the Lund Centre for Habitat Studies Building Issues Volume 9, No 2, summarise DW experience of developing woodless construction in west Africa over the past fifteen years |
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Burkina
Faso Project |
In 2003 DWF started a new programme to develop local capacity to meet settlement and shelter needs in northern Burkina Faso and to consolidate woodless construction skills in the region |
