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 Bio-Architecture Initiative

Development Partners Award

Third Place: Bio-Architecture Initiative

Initiative Description:

The idea of the initiative is based on exploiting the natural resources, recycling waste and construction residues in the building industry. The idea emerged in the year 2010G when the initiative launcher constructed a prototype, representing a semicircular dome with a diameter of 8 meters from the construction waste (iron, plastic) mixed with sand and pressed by a special pressing machine. 40% of the components of the model are from biological components (sand); sand is one of the most available natural resources and least exploited in Saudi Arabia apart from being cheaper from a financial perspective. The initiative launcher is now working on the development of the idea in collaboration with volunteer Dr. Manal Al Harbi. (medical student and researcher in microbiology) in order to make the building 100% biological. Note: (The launcher of initiative obtained a patent certificate issued by King Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology). This initiative is considered a social, environmental, economic and awareness-building initiative that contributes to the following:

  • Educating people on bio-architecture, environmental and emergency architecture, and its ease of application elsewhere in the Kingdom.
  • Reducing the problem resulting from the high cost of building materials and providing cheap housing for low-income people by use of cheap economic building materials.
  • Creation of innovative solutions to take advantage of the excessive natural resources as well as the industrial waste supported by the availability of the raw material, as an environmentally friendly material and its ability to easily integrate with the natural remnants.
  • Protection of environment by recycling the remnants and waste used in construction.
  • Exploitation of natural resources that are abundantly available in the Kingdom.
  • The process of producing and manufacturing bio-architecture that is not harmful and may be considered as environmentally friendly.


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