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Reconstruction at Bam

Tuesday 31 October 2006, by Kalpesh Dolia

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A&D gives a progress report on the humane answer and begins the debate on the process of the reconstruction.

Following the earthquake in Iran at the end of 2003, A&D constituted a working group mobilized around the reconstruction of Bam. Bringing together at the same time Franco-Iranian experts of parasismic structures, architects and young professionals wishing to approach these sets of themes, the team carried out a research task, with an aim of capitalizing the experiences and of defining a suitable response to this type of disaster.

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