A rammed earth wall in the Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre ... Being an environmentally-friendly, strong, and even aesthetic material, rammed earth has a lot of potential for the future ...

And award-winning who has considerable expertise with rammed earth, notes the aesthetic appeal of the material in Mud Hall: "We'd get people walking past and they would stop to touch the wall ...

Rammed earth is the descendant of ancient construction ... so it is considered a healthy building material. The thick walls have excellent acoustic properties, keeping noise out while also having ...

Save this picture! Courtesy of Archide First, Archide updated the formwork system for the rammed earth walls, testing different materials and arrangements to find an optimal strength. They ...

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. Besides, the material has a ...

Rammed-earth homes aren't just cost-effective to live in, they can be beautiful too. Homeowners like the layered look of the earth used to build their walls, and they'll sometimes add materials to ...

Parts of the Great Wall of China are made of rammed earth. A book of rammed-earth techniques from 1750s France prompted English farmers to build with the material. "In turn, they influenced ...

Although it’s been around for millennia, rammed-earth construction—layers of granite and soil, compacted into solid walls—is making a surprising reappearance in multimillion dollar homes.

“The primary material that defines the house is the rammed-earth walls,” said Lake Flato architect Andrew Herdeg. Herdeg was the design partner for the Ascaya home. “This massive, thick wall ...

The wall has been finished with steel lintels, sills and balustrades to contrast the roughness of the material. "The use of the traditional, low-tech rammed-earth technique enables the whole house ...