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  2. Primitive Technology - Wikipedia

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    Primitive Technology is a YouTube channel run by John Plant. Based in Far North Queensland, Australia, the series demonstrates the process of making tools and buildings using only materials found in the wild. Created in May 2015, the channel has gained over 10.8 million subscribers and over 1.12 billion views as of December 2023.

  3. History of construction - Wikipedia

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    As building materials, they used bones such as mammoth ribs, hide, stone, metal, bark, bamboo, and animal dung. Pre-historic men also used bricks and lime plaster as building materials. [7] For example, mud bricks and clay mortar dated to 9000 BC were found in Jericho. These mudbricks were formed with the hands rather than wooden moulds and ...

  4. Architectural terracotta - Wikipedia

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    Architectural terracotta refers to a fired mixture of clay and water that can be used in a non-structural, semi-structural, or structural capacity on the exterior or interior of a building. [1] Terracotta is an ancient building material that translates from Latin as "baked earth". Some architectural terracotta is stronger than stoneware.

  5. American historic carpentry - Wikipedia

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    American historic carpentry is the historic methods with which wooden buildings were built in what is now the United States since European settlement. A number of methods were used to form the wooden walls and the types of structural carpentry are often defined by the wall, floor, and roof construction such as log, timber framed, balloon framed ...

  6. Conservation and restoration of immovable cultural property

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    Another reason not to restore a building is the value and knowledge that can be gained from the material remaining within the building. The Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings has a unique approach to the preservation of historic buildings, which focuses on the materials that were used in the building's construction and what ...

  7. Tabby concrete - Wikipedia

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    The British tradition began later (some time close to, but earlier than, 1700, upon introduction of the techniques from Spanish Florida) than the Spanish (1580), and spread far more widely as a building material, reaching at least as far north as Staten Island, New York, where it can be found in the still-standing Abraham Manee House, erected ...

  8. Building material - Wikipedia

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    It is the longest-lasting building material available, and is usually readily available. There are many types of rock, with differing attributes that make them better or worse for particular uses. Rock is a very dense material so it gives a lot of protection; its main drawback as a building material is its weight and the difficulty of working it.

  9. Reconstruction (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    Building materials or construction techniques used to build the original are barely or not at all available or not financially affordable. The same applies to craftspeople who still (or again) master the historical techniques and materials. The original would not correspond to the space requirements that the new use of the building will make.