adobe brick
Earthen building block
A brick made from a mixture of clay, sand, water, and often straw, shaped in molds and dried in the sun rather than fired in a kiln.
Adobe bricks have been used for thousands of years in arid climates, where the material stays durable and provides natural insulation: The old mission walls were built of adobe brick.
The term is slightly redundant, since adobe already implies the brick form.
- mudWet soil mixture
- clayMoldable earth for ceramics
- strawTube for sipping
- sun-driedDehydrated by daylight
- puebloCommunal adobe village
mud hut · desert · desert dwelling · southwest · terracotta · terra cotta · earth tones · mortar · walls · thick walls · earthen · rustic · handmade · kiln · masonry · building material · hacienda · ochre
- Southwestmesa, Monument Valley, Arizona, New Mexico, Grand Canyon
- brickmakingclay, kiln, firebrick, brickworks, mould
- brickworkstretcher, header, pointing, repointing, tuckpointing
- earthen structurescob, rammed earth, mudbrick, earthen wall, earthwork
- eco-buildinggreen building, eco home, cob house, earthship, straw bale
- Rancho Californiarancho, hacienda, vaquero, ranchero, corral
adobe brickconcrete block
Molded masite building unit
cinder block · glass block · steel beam · reinforced concrete · structural steel
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