Bricks traditionally dried in the sun comprised of soil, straw, and other ingredients.
building material made of sun baked earth/clay. Adobe is often made into brick shaped units. It is quite durable in arid climates. It continues to be used in the Southwestern U.S. Adobe is sometimes referred to as rammed earth.
A type of brick made from clay and straw used to build many of the early buildings in Monterey. A building made with adobe, especially in Monterey; plural: Adobes
Adobe is a kind of natural clay that is sticky when wet but dries hard.
ado·be A brick or building material of sun-dried earth and straw; a structure made of adobe bricks; a heavy clay used in making adobe bricks. This word came into Spanish from the Arabic, at-tub meaning the brick.
Bricks made of sun-dried dirt, sometimes with straw added [Spanish, from Arabic at-tub the brick, from Coptic tobe brick [1748
Mud brick that is dried in the sun. The first adobe bricks were used 8,500 years ago in the Middle East.
Sun dried (i.e. baked) clay in block form. Typically about 4 x 18 x 20 inches, adobe blocks are made from clayey soil, water and sometimes straw is added as a binder.
Med bricks reinforced with straw. Used particularly in Latin America and southwestern USA, adobe produces a distinctive architectural style based on organic forms, a smooth finish, and a minimum of window openings.
a sun-dried, unfired brick of earth or clay mixed with straw; a structure made with such bricks
Sun-dried bricks made of clay mixed with straw and sometimes horse manure, then baked in the sun. Also refers to structures made of this material.
Construction using sun-dried units of adobe soil for walls; usually found in southwestern United States.
(Sp. adobar, to plaster) the sturdy mud buildings of the Pueblo Indians of the Río Grande, strong enough to support several storeys. Perhaps the notion of 'multi-storied buildings' was deemed indicative of advanced cultures.
bricks made of compressed mud and straw, dried in the sun.
the clay from which adobe bricks are made
sun-dried brick; used in hot dry climates
a Mexican house made of clay bricks
sun-dried building blocks made of mud and straw, which are laid like brick. Emplastadoras (plasterers), traditionally women, then plaster the blocks with adobe mud.
A brick or building material made of alluvial clay and straw.
heavy clay soil, not suitable for container gardening or hydroponics.
A mixture of sun-dried earth and plant fibers used as building material. In ancient times, the Pueblo people used adobe in roof construction and as a finish coat on structure walls.
Sunbaked bricks or blocks reinforced with straw. Usually 450x300x10 mm. Context used in a plaster rendition.
Special high silicon mud that is mixed with straw or sage to create blocks approximately 18 inches square. The mud is used also as a mortar between the blocks and the plaster to smooth the surface.
dried mud, often mixed with straw to form mud-bricks
A sun-dried brick used by the Indians of the western United States and Mesoamerica. A structure made of the same.
A building material made from clay, straw, and water, formed into blocks, and dried; used traditionally in the southwestern U.S.
Surface clay which is suitable for making sun-dried bricks. Rather non-plastic and contains a high percentage of sand.
unfired brick dried in the sun, commonly used for building in the American Southwest, Spain, and Latin America. Usually covered with stucco in home building.
Sun-dried earth used to build houses.
sun-dried bricks made of clay earth, straw and water
Unburned or unfired brick, dried in the sun
Heavy clay used to make adobe bricks.
Sun-dried brick used in places with warm, dry climates, such as Egypt and Mexico; the clay from which bricks are made; the structures built out of adobe bricks.
Adobe is a natural building material composed of sand, sandy clay and straw or other organic materials, which is shaped into bricks using wooden frames and dried in the sun. It is similar to cob and mudbrick. Adobe structures are extremely durable and account for the oldest extant buildings on the planet.
