A rammed earth wall in the Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Centre. Image. Once the location is deemed to be feasible, the framework for the walls may be built.

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 .

The author describes his experiences in the 1940's using rammed earth construction techniques to build a rammed earth house, an oddball decision at the time, and how well the structure has served ...

"This is the wrong way to do things," says Rauch. "If there is cement in the mix it is not real earth -- it's rammed concrete." In stabilised rammed earth, around 8 per cent of the material is cement.

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.

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 Fits Into Urban Architecture’s Sustainable Future. Bringing earth back to the concrete jungle. Sarah Laskow October 2, 2014. ... In one project Windstorm worked on, in Jordan Valley, ...

Rammed-earth homes—made of compressed soil, gravel and other natural materials—are both durable and energy efficient. Now, luxury homeowners are making aesthetic improvements.

What you can’t see are the 12 residences tucked beneath the rocky red soil, taking full advantage of the Earth's. In remote Pilbara, an arid, ...

Though a massive boom in rammed earth homes is unlikely to happen right away, use of fly ash in composite cements is already one area that is beginning to attract serious attention, says Dr. Siddiqua.

The relationship between architecture and nature rarely gets more explicit than with rammed-earth construction. The 18-foot-high western exterior wall of the Nk’Mip Desert Cultural Center in Osoyoos, ...