Rammed earth is one of humanity’s oldest methods of construction, packing natural raw components like dirt, chalk, and lime into a hard material resembling adobe. But where adobe requires dry weather ...
Rammed earth construction has long been considered a super efficient and sustainable building method, but it isn’t usually this gorgeous. Meet the Earth House, a thoroughly modern take on this ...
Architects also praise rammed earth’s high thermal mass—insulative properties that regulate a building’s indoor temperature.
OUTSIDER - a magazine that transcends boundaries has launched an architectural competition that encourages exploration of the significant potential of earth as a building material. The technique is ...
Tuckey Design Studio’s generous Wiltshire home offers lessons for building with unstabilised rammed earth in a temperate maritime climate ...
In the village of Solid in North Goa, international architecture practice SAV Architecture + Design has completed the Earth House, a luxury home of 700 square meters that makes the most of its lush, ...