To support the headers of several large openings that frame views of the landscape, they embedded steel beams within the rammed earth. And to create an elegant finish detail ... of rebar for each wall ...

The author describes his experiences in the 1940’s using rammed earth construction techniques ... You mustn’t have too much clay either or the finished wall will shrink and crack.

Alternative builder / programmer Richard Schave is here to explain it to us… Rammed earth is an ancient building technique which was used to build parts of the Great Wall of China. Some regions ...

the authorities completely forbade building with rammed earth in Lyon. The vertical section, and the cross-section of the 11-metre exterior walls of the Orangérie as well, follow the forces that arise ...

Parts of the Great Wall of China, still standing after more than 2,000 years, were built using a construction technique called rammed earth ... was removed once each section was complete and ...

A raw, rammed-earth wall in the UK would usually need a large overhanging roof to protect it from rain erosion, but at Bushey Cemetery, the cement content meant monolithic walls with the textured ...

In order to prevent the total collapse of existing inward tilted rammed earth wall, the new constructed roof extended out to cover the wall avoiding rain erosion, also by increasing the horizontal ...

The relationship between architecture and nature rarely gets more explicit than with rammed-earth construction ... space by the Osoyoos—disappears behind the earthen wall and under a vegetated roof, ...