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 ...

Working with the late Rick Green as the national rammed-earth consultant, R.W. Bugbee Construction and a local rammed-earth installer, building the walls took more than three months to complete.

“ Rammed earth walls brings the earth to the interior. Welcoming one into the home and unifying it with nature simultaneously.

The rammed earth walls, which can be seen at the entrance, cut through the home and create a connection between the interior and exterior. The warm-toned and textured look of rammed earth creates ...

Why aren’t entire cities built from hemp?” was a question I found myself asking following a chat with Byron Bay-based ...

Continuing Education It would be hard to imagine a more elemental building material than rammed earth. Produced by compressing a sandy earthen mixture into forms, the earliest examples of the ...

Rammed-earth walls come in varying colours and textures depending on the soil used. The examples below range from warm oranges, rich browns, cool greys, pinky hues and sandy tones.

Toast and Paul Smith have also just opened new showrooms featuring rammed earth walls designed by Adam Weismann of Clayworks. He’s been championing the mud-hut aesthetic for more than a decade ...

He researched rammed earth in the 1920s until his death in 1945. He had a series of test walls on campus and built a rammed earth building. South Dakota Agricultural Heritage Museum ...

Project size: 2,970 sf Program: With this modern rammed-earth house, the architect’s aim was to ignite the community’s interest in a sustainable building typology characteristic of the region.

BROOKINGS, S.D. -- An Australian architectural professor visited South Dakota State University in late April to advise on how to preserve a 90-year-old rammed earth experimental building on campus.

Renzo Piano Building Workshop has released an update of their Emergency Children’s Surgery Center in Uganda, as work progresses on the pediatric hospital.