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Straw bale constructions are appropriate for the improvement of the housing conditions in developing Countries. The paper presents, starting from the analysis of the context to the fabrication of prototypes, the design process of several human powered balers useful for the production of straw bales for straw bale construction in poor Countries.
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Our gratitude goes to eng. Federico Iarussi for the collaboration in the detailed design of the press Anpilpay 1.0; the Architettura Senza Frontiere Piemonte (ASF) association, in the person of Valeria Cottino, Annalisa Mosetto and Veronica Brugaletta for the realization of the Anpilpay1.0 prototype; the Politecnico di Torino student team Anpil Pay 2.0 for the detailed design of the second prototype of baler.
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Ferraresi, C., Franco, W., Quaglia, G. (2018). Designing Human Powered Balers for Straw Bale Construction in Developing Countries: The Case of Haiti. In: Dede, M., İtik, M., Lovasz, EC., Kiper, G. (eds) Mechanisms, Transmissions and Applications. IFToMM 2017. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 52. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60702-3_2
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