CCC LMI-1

LMI-1

A NEW KIND OF PROJECT: COMMUNITY
NONPROFIT WORKS TO BUILD A
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY
By Kelsi Williamson

UDC IS PROUD TO DONATE SOME OF THE PROCEEDS FROM THIS HOUSE TO SUPPORT THE EFFORTS OF THE FISHER HOUSE AND WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT CHARITIES.

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Location:
Abilene, Texas

Type:
Low Moderate Income Universal Home
For Community Development applications
Size:
1,386 SF

Designed By:
Steve Mueller/ Blake Smith/ Don Davis

Engineered By:
Charles Fowler PE, Inc.

Builder:
Universal Design Consortium

FACT: Earthen construction, as incorporated in the LMI-1 was first

used by the ancient Sumerians in urban design more than 6,000

years ago it was is now present day Iraq.

FACT: Passive design and orientation was again first utilized by the ancient Sumerians, but fully realized and successfully integrated into building design as a essential design feature by civilizations such as the Egyptians, Romans, Greeks Mayans, Incas, Aztecs and American Indian tribes of the Southwestern United States.

FACT: Taos Pueblo constructed between 1000 and 1045 A.D. is the oldest continuously inhabited house in the United states. The home incorporates both earthen building techniques and materials as well as passive polar orientation strategies to achieve efficiency and performance.

FACT: More than one half of the world's population,

approximately 3.5 billion on six continents, live and

work in earth buildings.

FACT: The oldest known earth building in the world

that is still standing and used is a Mosque in

Djenne, Mali. Constructed entirely of rammed earth

and coated in a festival annually with a natural

mud plaster for over 1,100 years. The Mosque I

s 7 stories high.

FACT: The LMI-1 has natural Lime plaster applied to the interior and exterior of the wall systems. The plaster is made up of Nopal cactus as a binder of Lime and clay elements i to create a exterior semi-permeable membrane. A techniques that is thousands of years old, but still widely utilized through out the world.