Rammed earth is the descendant of ancient construction techniques like adobe or cob building. It can be used to build walls for many kinds of buildings, from houses to museums and even cemeteries ...

The visitor centre at the Eden Project in Cornwall, southern England, includes a wall made of locally sourced rammed earth in order to make the most of the site – a China clay quarry with a seam ...

When properly planned and constructed, rammed earth walls are unaffected by rain, fire or pests. The walls are load bearing and don't require any further finishing.

Not all sand castles get washed away by the tide. "Rammed earth" is a construction method that uses composites of earth (commonly sand-based), clay, gravel and cement to build walls. The process ...

Designed by the San Antonio-based firm, Lake Flato Architects, the 7,850-square-foot, one-level, Z-shaped home lists for $9.5 million. Its unique design blends the natural landscape into the ...

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.

Jim Wilson moved to this rammed-earth house in Mount Olive with his parents and sister, Carolyn Lyon, in 1944. The homes in the government project included about four acres for a garden and farm ...

Sleek rammed earth bathroom inside one of the Great Wall of WA's 12 total guest houses, complete with a lavish oversized bathtub. A new ovoid chapel overlooks the Advertisement ...

Rammed earth walls, ... Throughout the home you experience the site sensitivity of the project through its unique pallets and how the residence respects the natural qualities of the site.

The relationship between architecture and nature rarely gets more explicit than with rammed-earth construction. The 18-foot-high western exterior wall of the Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Center in Osoyoos, ...

As a result of their work with rammed earth, Archide was invited to present their project at the Advanced Building Skins international conference in Bern, Switzerland in October 2015.