efe-epaBy Mariana Gonzalez-Marquez
Guadalajara, Mexico
2 Feb 2021
Super adobe, the cheap construction technique from Mexico
Photo taken Jan. 23, 2021, showing workers building homes with superadobe in Tizapan El Alto, in Mexico s Jalisco state. EFE-EPA/Francisco Guasco
Photo taken Jan. 23, 2021, showing Jessica Romero Lopez during a tour of houses built with superadobe in Tizapan El Alto, in Mexico s Jalisco state. EFE-EPA/Francisco Guasco
Photo taken Jan. 23, 2021, showing workers building homes with superadobe in Tizapan El Alto, in Mexico s Jalisco state. EFE-EPA/Francisco Guasco
Jessica and Salvador decided to move to the Mexican countryside and live in a house they built themselves using so-called superadobe, an environmentally friendly material and a technique that they are now teaching to anyone who wants to live in a more ecologically sound manner.
Superadobe, cheap construction technique becoming popular in Mexico 3 minutes read
By Mariana Gonzalez-Marquez
Guadalajara, Mexico, Feb 1 (efe-epa).- Jessica and Salvador decided to move to the Mexican countryside and live in a house they built themselves using so-called “superadobe,” an environmentally friendly material and a technique that they are now teaching to anyone who wants to live in a more ecologically sound manner.
Houses made of superadobe can weather bad storms and even powerful earthquakes because of their structure, EFE learned from Jessica Romero, who along with her husband Salvador Montaño runs the Igloo Kokolo environmental learning center in Ribera de Chapala, in the western state of Jalisco.