Talk:Superadobe

Undid the edits that involved torture

I undid the changes that started to go into torture and seemed a bit like vandalism. The person who added those changes was not signed in and didn't leave any sort of real citations that made their changes make any sense. With the whole torture overtone and no citations, it made the whole article seem like a joke or a prank or something. Kelidimari (talk) 16:57, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

some architects?

in the section on critique, it says that some architects view super adobe as regressive, but there is only evidence given for one singular architect having given this critique.

Cleanup tag

I tagged this article as being in need of cleanup. Parts of the article are written in the second-person, and give instructions to the reader. Wikipedia is not a how-to guide.

In places, the tone of the article seems to advocate in favor of this technique. I removed a few problematic statements (E.g. "Unfortunately the government removed the houses...") as promoting a point-of-view, but problems remain. The aritcle should be re-written to have a neutral, encyclopedic tone.

I left in place the tag asking for in-line citations. I note that this tag has been on the article for one year now, but most sections still do not have in-line citations. This makes it difficult for the reader to tell which statements here are backed up by sources, and which statements are not. Johntex\^talk 16:28, 12 February 2010 (UTC)

Has this (main article) page been vandalised?

I refer to the numerous references to torture etc. I'm no authority on the subject, its just that some bits of text scream "vandalism" when I read them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 94.196.105.16 (talk) 00:45, 21 February 2012 (UTC) It does seem really weird. Why would the housing be a form of torture, when the "wetness" of the housing can be prevented by putting the adobe stuff into water-proof bags? I don't get it... This seems weird. 192.33.240.95 (talk) 16:53, 23 February 2012 (UTC)

Merge to earthbag construction

"superadobe" is what Nader Khalili termed his technique of using moistened adobe soil in polypropylene tubes to build (usually domed) permanent structures. So really superadobe is just a popular type of earthbag construction (specifically flexible form rammed earth, or modular contained earth, whatever else you might want to call it). In my opinion, the topic of superadboe is too closely interwoven with the concept of earthbag construction in general that these articles should just be combined under the heading "earthbag construction". Matthew Ferguson (talk) 15:59, 25 February 2017 (UTC)