Afar Deboita – Ethiopian Vernacular Architecture 🏕️🌿
In Ethiopia’s Afar region, the nomadic Afar people craft the deboita, a flexible armature tent embodying their pastoralist lifestyle. Made from tree branches or roots and covered with mats, animal skins, or grass, the deboita is easily assembled, dismantled, and transported on camels. Permanent versions use grass, while flexible ones feature mats. This sustainable, climate-responsive design reflects the Afar’s ingenuity, yet Ethiopia’s architecture curricula often overlook such vernacular brilliance. Let’s draw inspiration from these ephemeral, adaptable structures! 🌄
APDA, Nomads.org, Rieger-Jandl (2013)
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In Ethiopia’s Afar region, the nomadic Afar people craft the deboita, a flexible armature tent embodying their pastoralist lifestyle. Made from tree branches or roots and covered with mats, animal skins, or grass, the deboita is easily assembled, dismantled, and transported on camels. Permanent versions use grass, while flexible ones feature mats. This sustainable, climate-responsive design reflects the Afar’s ingenuity, yet Ethiopia’s architecture curricula often overlook such vernacular brilliance. Let’s draw inspiration from these ephemeral, adaptable structures! 🌄
APDA, Nomads.org, Rieger-Jandl (2013)
@unityarch
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Afar Deboita – Ethiopian Vernacular Architecture 🏕️🌿
In Ethiopia’s Afar region, the nomadic Afar people craft the deboita, a flexible armature tent embodying their pastoralist lifestyle. Made from tree branches or roots and covered with mats, animal skins, or grass, the deboita is easily assembled, dismantled, and transported on camels. Permanent versions use grass, while flexible ones feature mats. This sustainable, climate-responsive design reflects the Afar’s ingenuity, yet Ethiopia’s architecture curricula often overlook such vernacular brilliance. Let’s draw inspiration from these ephemeral, adaptable structures! 🌄
APDA, Nomads.org, Rieger-Jandl (2013)
@unityarch
In Ethiopia’s Afar region, the nomadic Afar people craft the deboita, a flexible armature tent embodying their pastoralist lifestyle. Made from tree branches or roots and covered with mats, animal skins, or grass, the deboita is easily assembled, dismantled, and transported on camels. Permanent versions use grass, while flexible ones feature mats. This sustainable, climate-responsive design reflects the Afar’s ingenuity, yet Ethiopia’s architecture curricula often overlook such vernacular brilliance. Let’s draw inspiration from these ephemeral, adaptable structures! 🌄
APDA, Nomads.org, Rieger-Jandl (2013)
@unityarch
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