Roofs and Stoves 2010: Piriquina, Sacabamba, Chaucari
Here are pictures from the 2010 implementation of the Roofs and Stoves Project in the Bolivian communities of Piriquina, Sacabamba, and Chaucari.
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Piriquina and the Surrounding Area
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Piriquina. View of town center, celebrating festivities
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Festival displays in Piriquina
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Hand-made town model, complete with livestock
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Festival displays
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School, morning line-up, grades K-12
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Piriquina school kids
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Rocky, rugged terrain, combined with farmland
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View of Piriquina while coming back from a hike
Roof Construction
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Placing gesso on the roof
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Loading wood in the city
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Storage of roof construction materials in Piriquina.
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Roof construction under way in Piriquina
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Group picture, one of eight roof-building teams, Piriquina
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Roof construction under way in Piriquina
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Roof construction in Chaucari.
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View of roof construction from inside the building.
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Local team working on the roof in Piriquina
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Putting gesso/plaster on the roofs for insulation
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Placing the gesso/stucco on the top of the roof
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The underside of the roof after completion of stucco
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Apportioning bricks for stove construction.
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Counting hundreds of bricks.
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Storing bricks and other stove construction materials.
Stove Testing
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Making a chimney cap.
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Sawing off rivets to measure old chimney cap dimensions
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Stove testing, glamour shot
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Creating a hole in the metal for new rivets
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Group picture in the stove testing room
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Recording data during stove testing
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Sawing off a piece of metal to use as a baffle inside a test stove
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Observing the effects of the test baffle design
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Open fire stoves commonly used throughout area
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Two of the stove builders, Guido Ibanez and Jesusa Illanez, laying the foundation for the stove
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Stove testing with diagonal baffles — too much fire coming out, and too much smoke
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Test baffles block too much air flow; flames come out
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Retrieving a HOBO (smoke monitoring device) from inside a chimney
