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.

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

In the past few years, though, it’s become more common for designers to include rammed earth as feature walls in buildings — they’ll include one or two rammed earth walls for their look and feel and ...

A Hacienda-style Sonoma home constructed of rammed-earth — rendering it fireproof and allowing the interior temperature to remain cool throughout the summer without air conditioning — is for ...

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 ...

By Darren Quick June 05, 2009 Walls made from rammed earth may hold the key to more eco-friendly housing design in the future View 3 Images View gallery - 3 images ...

Rammed earth is one of humanity’s oldest methods of construction, packing natural raw components like dirt, chalk, and lime into a hard material resembling adobe. But where adobe requires dry ...

Back in the 40’s I was considered an oddball. I wore a beard–revolutionary then–and I started, by myself, to build a house out of (of all things) rammed earth. People wondered about me.

Rammed earth has been used for centuries, for buildings that have stood the test of time, including China’s Great Wall. It’s also cheap and environmentally friendly, so why aren’t modern ...