Once the location is deemed to be feasible, the framework for the walls may be built. Usually consisting of two parallel plywood panels, the frame is then filled in with a layer of damp earth ...

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.

Architect Luigi Rosselli says that zig-zag is the longest rammed earth wall in Australia, and possibly the entire Southern Hemisphere, and it’s making waves that can be felt across the continent.

The rammed earth is 90% dirt and 10% concrete with some coloring added to give it a earthy look instead of a pale grey concrete appearance. The UA architecture class have designed it and now are ...

Rammed earth is one of the oldest methods of constructing walls and still holds great potential for modern earth construction. One aspect of this potential is the gift of its colors and layers ...

From India to South Africa, our latest lookbook collects living rooms that showcase the diversity in colour and texture of rammed-earth walls. Rammed earth is a building method that is constructed ...

Rammed earth walls appear free standing and separated from a floating roof with wide overhangs providing shade in summer but letting winter sun inside. The house (including the old) achieves an ...

These walls were made out of rammed earth: dirt that had been compressed and compacted and compressed to the point where each one was as solid as any concrete wall.

Morphlab’s renderings depict a house that mimics a rocky outcropping with asymmetrical rammed earth forms and a two-story outdoor waterfall as a focal feature next to the main entrance. Water, a ...

The construction of the library's rammed-earth walls took a 15-man crew just over three months and about 12,000 man hours to complete, Jessop said. Two million pounds of material were used in the ...