Zenkonyu rammed earth design. Image. Sometimes, to remedy these shortcomings as well as increasing the load-bearing capacity of rammed earth walls, cement will be added into the original soil ...

From India to South Africa, our latest lookbook collects living rooms that showcase the diversity in colour and texture of rammed-earth walls. Rammed earth is a building method that is constructed ...

Have you thought of a house with a garden on the roof? A room with no sharp corners only useful for spiders? A window sill where you can lay down and bask in the Sun? All these ideas are being ...

A: Typically, when using rammed-earth construction, forms are built that are one-foot thick and then filled with a mixture of gravel, sand, silt and clay.You will end up with finished walls that ...

Most rammed earth walls are high in thermal mass, which allows them to absorb and store heat. This can also achieve high energy savings over the lifetime of a building.

Curving rammed earth walls also make up part of the complex, further integrating the building into the landscape. + TAC Taller de Arquitectura Contextual Via ArchDaily ...

Rammed earth technology, where waste products such as fly ash, are used as sustainable building materials can also be used to make decorative feature walls like this one at UBC Okanagan.

Historically, rammed earth walls are made with the materials found at the site, but Jinkins had to source his building materials from Ruschman Sand & Gravel due to today’s building codes and ...

The rammed earth walls are one foot thick. To optimize passive solar heating and cooling, the building features two north-south walls twice as long as the east and west walls, with a 10-inch gap ...