Nader Khalili

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Eco-Dome under construction in Djibouti , May 2012

Nader Khalili (born February 22, 1936 in Tehran , Iran ; † March 5, 2008 in Los Angeles , USA ) was an architect and author. He is considered a pioneer in the field of self-assembly systems in the third world . His worldview is guided by the mystical poet Jalal ad-Din ar-Rumi .

Life

Nader Khalili studied architecture at the University of Tehran , the Istanbul Technical University and then went on New York and San Francisco to Los Angeles. After receiving his license as an architect in California in 1970 , he worked in the USA and Iran.

Gel taffan

Tired of building conventional high-rise apartment buildings and multi-storey car parks, he has been working on small earthen buildings since 1975. To do this, he goes on a motorcycle trip through rural Iran, where he will stay for the next five years. Khalili's innovative concept of a ceramic house resulted from the need for the found buildings made of adobe bricks to be more resistant to the forces of nature. To do this, he burns the built clay structure for several days. After returning to the USA, he developed this further into the Geltaftan Earth-and-Fire System , which he also adapted from 1984 for NASA to build residential structures on the moon.

Super adobe

Khalili's simpler approach to strengthening earthworks, which he calls Superadobe , becomes more significant . To do this, he fills locally found soil into sandbags (later produced specifically in long hoses), which he builds up in layers to form vaulted structures and fix the individual layers against one another with barbed wire . In a rudimentary way, this is an ideal construction concept for temporary structures in refugee camps and leads to Khalili's appointment as advisor to the United Nations . These structures are being implemented for the first time in isolated cases for a refugee camp for Iraqis in Baninajar Camp, Chuzestan (Iran).

A more stable implementation of the principle with the help of moist earth and binding agents as well as plastering makes the buildings suitable for long-term use. He developed several models for this, which he implemented in Hesperia (California) , including a. the Earth One house with a series of barrel-vaulted rooms and Eco-Dome , a round building with smaller apses .

Teaching and Awards

Khalili taught at the SCI-Arc from 1983 to 2008 . In 1986 he founded the Geltaftan Foundation and in 1991 the California Institute of Earth Art and Architecture ( Cal-Earth ) in Hesperia. In 1984 he received the “Excellence in Technology” award from the California Council of the American Institute of Architects (CCAIA) for his research . In 1987 he was honored by the UN. In 2004 he won the Aga Khan Award for Architecture for his Super Adobe - prototypes .

Fonts

  • Racing Alone (autobiographical)
  • Ceramic Houses and Earth Architecture: How to Build Your Own
  • Sidewalks on the Moon (autobiographical)
  • Rumi, Fountain of Fire
  • Rumi, Dancing the Flame

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ More pictures of the construction at Wikimedia Commons
  2. ↑ Interview with Nader Khalili, 2005 (in English) ( Memento of the original from March 15, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / architectureforhumanity.org
  3. ^ Architecture in Development
  4. ↑ SCI-Arc news, March 26, 2008 ( Memento of the original from October 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sciarc.edu

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personal data
SURNAME Khalili, Nader
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Iranian architect
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Iran
DATE OF DEATH March 5, 2008
Place of death los Angeles