A Study of the Forms and Technology of Traditional Granary Buildings in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Fu River

Wang, Yansong; Yu, Yi; Zhang, Nie; Du, Jinzhou

doi:10.3130/jaabe.17.175

“…(Shiferaw, 2018). The results of the analysis demonstrate that granary buildings can maintain low temperatures and prevent moisture using eco-building techniques, such as ventilative stone ridges, moisture-resistant walls and heat insulation storage rooms (Yansong Wang, 2018).…”

Section: Literature Review: Traditional African Granary Trends In Africamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The architectural design of most granary borrows heavily from the architectural designs for domestic houses. This means that, the structural and architectural designs is technically not suited for grain and farm produce preservation thus increasing post-harvest losses (Yansong Wang, 2018). The traditional African granary is heavily prone to attack by weevils that cause grain loss and damage to the tune of 77% causing hunger and starvation (Maletsema Alina, 2016).…”

Section: Objectives Reinforcing Investments In a Newly Improved Traditional African Granarymentioning

confidence: 99%

Design Of An Improved Traditional African Granary: Literature Review

Kabinga¹

2021

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<p>In the past several decades, domineering influence from the western culture has played an important role in Africans abandoning their traditional foods for the more appearing western cuisines and highly refined factory foods. Unfortunately, this approach results in problems related to increase in lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, obesity, impotence in men, high blood pressure and cancer to name but a few. This problem has been largely studied and many viable solutions have been found including going back to consumption of traditional foods. Consequently, there has been much campaign and spirited debate in the media for the need to return to the consumption of African traditional foodstuffs to try to reduce the spread of the lifestyle diseases. On the same note, African communities have abandoned their traditional farming practices including food storage and warehousing practices. This turns out to be even more problematic because instead of improving their traditional food storage practices like granaries, on the contrary they have adopted urban systems, which have proved ineffective and inefficient. For instance, such poor storage practices include the following: the use of converted storage rooms in modern urban residential houses; construction of stock yards and sheds using cheap scientifically untested materials, poorly built traditional granaries due to loss of artisanship and knowledge from one generation to another and use of shopping bags and plastics. This is a basic chicken-and-egg problem, therefore, this article encourages the need for new research initiatives aimed at coming up with a newly designed African granary as a solution to reducing postharvest losses by rural farmers in Kenya and other developing countries. Other studies have failed to come up with a viable solution to the problems occasioned by the traditional African granary and the modern versions in the markets. The aims of this research are twofold: firstly to find engineering solutions to the practical and applicability challenges facing the traditional African granary, secondly, to design a commercially viable technically practical traditional African granary prototype. Therefore, this paper evaluates the past and currents trends in the use of the African granary and proposes new technical improvements to make it more suitable in combating pest, rodents and disease invasion. This shall be done, by searching for appropriate literature on the current problems associated with the granary and forecasting the economic, technical, socio-cultural, governmental and legal benefits of a newly designed traditional African granary. This thesis will document several key contributions made to the fields of warehousing and stores management: to reduce post-harvest losses by 90% therefore combating food shortage and hunger in Kenya and other developing countries of the world. </p>

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“…The architectural design of most granary borrows heavily from the architectural designs for domestic houses. This means that, the structural and architectural designs is technically not suited for grain and farm produce preservation thus increasing post-harvest losses (Yansong Wang, 2018). The traditional African granary is heavily prone to attack by weevils that cause grain loss and damage to the tune of 77% causing hunger and starvation (Maletsema Alina, 2016).…”

Section: Objectives Reinforcing Investments In a Newly Improved Tradi...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Design Of An Improved Traditional African Granary: Literature Review

Kabinga¹

2021

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<p>In the past several decades, domineering influence from the western culture has played an important role in Africans abandoning their traditional foods for the more appearing western cuisines and highly refined factory foods. Unfortunately, this approach results in problems related to increase in lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, obesity, impotence in men, high blood pressure and cancer to name but a few. This problem has been largely studied and many viable solutions have been found including going back to consumption of traditional foods. Consequently, there has been much campaign and spirited debate in the media for the need to return to the consumption of African traditional foodstuffs to try to reduce the spread of the lifestyle diseases. On the same note, African communities have abandoned their traditional farming practices including food storage and warehousing practices. This turns out to be even more problematic because instead of improving their traditional food storage practices like granaries, on the contrary they have adopted urban systems, which have proved ineffective and inefficient. For instance, such poor storage practices include the following: the use of converted storage rooms in modern urban residential houses; construction of stock yards and sheds using cheap scientifically untested materials, poorly built traditional granaries due to loss of artisanship and knowledge from one generation to another and use of shopping bags and plastics. This is a basic chicken-and-egg problem, therefore, this article encourages the need for new research initiatives aimed at coming up with a newly designed African granary as a solution to reducing postharvest losses by rural farmers in Kenya and other developing countries. Other studies have failed to come up with a viable solution to the problems occasioned by the traditional African granary and the modern versions in the markets. The aims of this research are twofold: firstly to find engineering solutions to the practical and applicability challenges facing the traditional African granary, secondly, to design a commercially viable technically practical traditional African granary prototype. Therefore, this paper evaluates the past and currents trends in the use of the African granary and proposes new technical improvements to make it more suitable in combating pest, rodents and disease invasion. This shall be done, by searching for appropriate literature on the current problems associated with the granary and forecasting the economic, technical, socio-cultural, governmental and legal benefits of a newly designed traditional African granary. This thesis will document several key contributions made to the fields of warehousing and stores management: to reduce post-harvest losses by 90% therefore combating food shortage and hunger in Kenya and other developing countries of the world. </p>

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“…The facade form of the building is easy to be observed and perceived; people can understand the architectural style characteristics through the architectural facade form. Therefore, the architectural facade form has a direct impact on people's evaluation and feel of the architectural style [1]. The traditional vernacular facade is an important part of the architectural form.…”

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New Life in the Countryside: Conservation and Sustainability of Vernacular Architectural Facade Characteristics in the Jiangnan Region, China

Han,

Hu,

Xu

2024

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The facade form of vernacular architecture is an outward manifestation of the building structure, which can easily give people an intuitive impression of the building. Most of the existing studies focus on analyzing the construction process and building materials of vernacular architecture in detail, but there are few studies on the characteristic elements in the form of architectural facades. The main objective of this study is to propose a new methodology for objectively analyzing the morphological characteristics of architectural facades with complex networks to support the sustainable development of vernacular architecture. The results of the study show that the vernacular architectural facades in the Jiangnan region are characterized by the richness of details and distinctive layers and that the formal elements that can show the regional characteristics are preserved in the process of the sustainable development of vernacular architecture. The most crucial part of this is the roof shape, followed by the simplification of the detailing and how the vertical form elements are laid out horizontally. The article addresses the protection and continuity of vernacular architectural facade characteristics and proposes a strategic plan to strengthen the vernacular architectural facade characteristics in the Jiangnan region, aiming to protect the traditional characteristics and continue the traditional culture.

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A Study of the Forms and Technology of Traditional Granary Buildings in the Middle and Lower Reaches of the Fu River

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Design Of An Improved Traditional African Granary: Literature Review

Design Of An Improved Traditional African Granary: Literature Review

Design Of An Improved Traditional African Granary: Literature Review

New Life in the Countryside: Conservation and Sustainability of Vernacular Architectural Facade Characteristics in the Jiangnan Region, China

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