Eleven doctoral students of the Historic Preservation program spent their spring holiday blades, straw and sand in wheelbarrows, mixed buckets of Lime -Gips and Wenden Limousinen on historical walls as part of an Adobe preserving workshops organized by Debora Barros and the assistance professor of Historic Preservation in the Center and in the Center the graduates and in the environment (GCPE) in the graduates and in the environment, in the environment (GCPE) and in the graduates, in the environment (GCPE) (gartage -mentigen for the abreal offer). Trainer at Adobe in Action, a non-profit organization in New Mexico, which supports the planning, construction and maintenance of Adobe houses. The workshop took place in Mesilla, NM, and was relieved by Pat Taylor, an Adobe consultant in Action, a Mesila, and local Adobe Conservation Expert and Lawyer.
In warm, sunny days, the students restored historical Adobe houses and buildings with local materials based on local and lime -based materials. They turned Limewash and lime plaster into the facades of the late 19th century and reinstated their original sign against weather damage and their historical appearance.
“The students benefited from the tactile experience of creating Adobe and preparing materials in order to restore these beautiful historical structures,” said Vicki Weiner, academic director of the historical conservation program, who supported the planning of the workshop and took part in the trip.
Barros said: “They solved real problems and helped people. They learned all kinds of things about the technologies and the construction of earthly construction work and had the opportunity to apply this knowledge to the support of the local community.”
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Students mix limesash
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Students preparing Limeshash
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Students press the Adobe mix into a wooden shape
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Students who use a wheelbarrow to transport materials
Adobe Construction and restoration is based on local knowledge and materials from the region. In contrast to modern construction and repair techniques, it is dependent on globally produced commercialized materials with considerable CO2 footprints. Interventions on earthly buildings from incompatible materials such as cement, a common practice, can accelerate the deterioration of an Adobe building, a phenomenon that the students encounter in Mesilla.
During the trip, the students learned that well -built and properly maintained earthen buildings can sound structurally for an indefinite period and offer a sustainable construction option for communities.
Adobe Conservation Expert and workshop manager Pat Taylor, who shares his expertise with the students in a traditional Adobe house in the 1850s
Students make Adobe bricks
As part of the HP course indigenous construction technologies, as climate protection taught last spring, Barros taught six lectures and planned a similar workshop in Brazil. Kaylee Johnson, Master of Science in Historic Preservation '25, inspired by the focus of the trip on earthen materials.
“It is so important to have these practical experiences in which the students can touch the material and thus be present,” said Barros. “It is a sensory experience that a recovery offers. It is an invitation to move away from the hyper -technological world in which we connect with nature, ourselves and again and build up a sense of community within the classroom. By understanding the pupils for the excitement of objections to the excitement of the earth's body for the generation of the generation by the excitement of the excitement of the generation of earth Field that is able to create.