Outside references
Egypt 1922, Shaduf used by farmers to lift water. © Mary Evans Picture Library.
Hand twined and braided grass bundles beingcarried to an incan suspansion bridge in Peru. Image byJordi Busque.
AmperDesign// Start of a Ringdobbe in the polder. A man made hill from sludge.
Slikslede 1951: Polygoon Hollands Nieuws, week 29. video: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/e/ee/Bijzondere_wijze_van_visvangst_in_de_Dollard-522487.ogv/Bijzondere_wijze_van_visvangst_in_de_Dollard-522487.ogv.480p.vp9.webm
1928 : Willow is used to construct the 'afsluitdijk' to stabilise the stones.
The same techniques are still being used.
braiding a grass bridge in Peru
A 'Dobbe' is a dug out pond often found in the northern area of the Netherlands. The dug out soil is used to create a wall around the pond. While this is originally done to create a drinking place for cattle when the salt water rises (the fresh water inside the pond floats on top of the salt water), it has also proven to be an essential element in the landscape to find safety when waterlevels rise.
https://www.sense-of-place.eu/dobbepaarden/
A house of religion in Iraq made from reed.
Living on floating islands of reet. Constantly adding layers, harvested from the surroundings. A dependance on the health of the surrounding ecosystem.
Sound isolating domes made of reed near highway. (waiting for trees to grow and take over this function).
AmperDesign// Visiting the youngest part of the Netherlands 'de markerwadden'. A constructed island as a haven for ecology to catch a breath in the monoculture of the waters and coasts surrounding it.
Even though it only exists for a couple of years, the island is full of life. Pioneering species of plants, birds and life under water.
Beehive making. Skep style. How big can i scale this up?
water windmill, a creature in its biotope.
Soil references
By Reinier Gerritsen; Dutch landscape. 1992.
About work.
Windmill 'Friese Tjasker'. Most simple one rotating axle to pump water. Miller: Rolf Dijkema. Video material by Jan Pieter Visser.
Fries film en audio archief// A film showing different construction techniques used to close the Lauwerszee in Groningen starting at 1960.
AmperDesign// stacking layers with willow and reed to get an amfitheater.
AmperDesign// On the left a walking windmill building a donut shaped hill, below that a donut shaped sludge structure from reed and willow to build up a layer every sludge season to grow a hill and basin for drought, or high water. On the right a concept for a machine twining a reed 'bundle'.
AmperDesign// Building of a hill of sludge, Baggerbootcamp.
Peat cutter in the province of Drenthe.
Manmade hills in the landscape. A landscape typology as a result of the coexistence with recurring flooding.
Reed building blocks at 10:40 in video.
AmperDesign// Open defecation with a view and other ideas.
AmperDesign// visiting Kooijman bv, roofing with reed. Checking on the big pile of rest material not suitable for roofing, but perfect for fiber experiments.
AmperDesign// First test construction for ripening sludge with natural fibers.
Amazing root structures from open source: https://images.wur.nl/digital/collection
/coll13/search
'Human intervention in ecosystems and community driven landscape restoration' inspiration.
Website of research foundation:
www.ecosystemkickstarter.com
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AmperDesign// fibre experiments. as filter, as soil bund, as public space vegetation container.
1-year old trenches with soil bunds, Sourakhak Watershed. Photo: HELVETAS Swiss Intercooperatio (Nainital, Uttarakhand, India)
The transformation of the Löss-Plateau in China from degraded soil to fertile landscape. Images copyright by John D. Liu 1995.
Anton Alvarez; Thread Wrapping machine. 2015.
Wrapsody.
Straw wattles and brushwood fascines// existing erosion prevention techniques that also add organic matter.
AmperDesign// (after) Next generation erosion prevention structures during rainy season. Ethiopia, October 2022.
AmperDesign// cardboard structure with grass seedlings inside on a slope in the Ethiopian Ziway river basin.
AmperDesign// Demo of a low tech production unit to produce a cardboard honeycomb mat with grass seeds inside to prevent erosion as a terracing structure.
AmperDesign// Prototype production machine for the cardboard honeycomb structure with seeds inside.
When Faith Moves Mountains - by Francis Alÿs. 2002
AmperDesign// Low-tech production unit development in our workshop in Zaandam.
AmperDesign// preparing the testing fields in Karamoja Uganda for the anti-erosion mat from Ecokick Foundation.
Hedging, the craft of making and maintaining a hedge out of existing old vegetation. A hedge can grow many years old this way. Hedges are an important place to offer shadow, nesting place and facilitate biodiversity in an agricultural landscape.