The Roof - Update from Ntarama, Rwanda - Sally Botteley Photos

Compressed earth blocks (CEBs)  or Interlocking soil stabilised blocks (ISSB)

Inside second bedroom

inside first bedroom - note hole in wall for scaffold poles
first 6 or so courses have cement in blocks for stabiliser

back of house - timber lintel two pole tied with wire
eaves a good 40 cm from roof

roof on rains coming, masonry columns, ISSB makiga hand pressed earth, earth blocks, first five course stabilised with cement lighter colour

interlocking soil stabilised hand compressed earth blocks (CEB's), go into gable end, cut timber purlins and pole timber rafters

timber scaffold poles inset in masonry at 1.5 meter off ground to access top of wall at 3m height

the group of (hutu and tutsi) Rwandans gather together, once enemies now friends and colleges they build houses for victims of the genocide

PREVIOUS ADOBE HOUSE DESIGN: section, sketch, adobe block house,
typical of house building style of Ntarama, Rwanda
Design by REACH, Drawn by Edward Dale-Harris

CURRENT CEB HOUSE DESIGN: section, sketch, compressed earth block house,
eaves and gutter for social space and rainwater collection, Rwanda
Design and drawn by Edward Dale-Harris

Comparison : previous adobe block house and current CEB house