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 ...

To improve some of the shortcomings of this ancient technique, additional measures can be taken to enhance the walls. For example, to improve rammed earth’s relatively poor thermal performance ...

Modern day rammed earth builds employ traditional footings or a reinforced slab as the foundation. Additionally, it utilizes the soil that has been excavated from the site as part of the mixture ...

That makes integrating it into rammed earth construction very promising for the cause of sustainable building practices. And this manages waste, besides giving a resilient building material.

This property allows earth architecture to adapt to changing weather conditions. A rammed earth wall that can resist extreme humidity will become sturdier in very dry conditions.

The wall is built layer by layer horizontally. The first thing a rammed earth homeowner needs to do is to check the strength of the soil to be used.

Jenn Carroll, manager of sustainability for the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation, points to the timber beam ceiling, which is highlighted below by a rammed-earth wall installed ...

A four-metre-high external rammed-earth wall was left exposed in the living room of Casa di Campo, a home in the city of Werribee South that was designed by local studio Neil Architecture.