terra 2016 – 12TH WORLD CONGRESS ON EARTHEN ARCHITECTURE

11th – 14th July, Lyon, France
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The international UNESCO congress Terra 2016 is the twelfth in a series of international events organized since 1972, bringing together academics, professionals and experts, and a broad audience gathering around earthen architecture. Andrea Klinge (Roswag Architekten) will give a lecture about hygroscopic natural materials versus mechanical ventilation and present current findings of the H-House project.

Terra 2016 is organized under the aegis of the ISCEAH Committee of ICOMOS international, in the framework of the UNESCO World Heritage Earthen Architecture Programme (WHEAP). It is organized by CRAterre laboratory of the Grenoble National School of Architecture (ENSAG), with the support of LabEx AE&CC and ICOMOS France, and in partnership with the Lyon National School of Architecture (ENSAL), les Grands Ateliers, ENTPE, INSA Lyon, and la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée. This edition is unique because the questions of cultural heritage and conservation and sustainable development will be considered of equal importance and treated in that way.

During the congress, 140 oral presentations will be held, from which 80 in plenary sessions and 60 during the thematic sessions. You will also have access to the exhibition of about 100 posters and have the possibility to meet with the authors, as well as to demonstration workshops (amàco). Two thematic evenings are foreseen (Mali and Armenia),

About 800 participants from over the whole world are expected (80 countries are already covered by the authors), specialists in cultural heritage and conservation, in archaeology, in architecture, in urbanism, in engineering, in social sciences as well as in local development and in interventions in risk situations.