Rammed earth homes

These resilient, rammed-earth homes show the soil’s true stripes.

Stories about Mexican houses, including a coastal home in Colima that curves around a tropical garden and a beachfront cabana in San Juan de Alima.

Architectural studio Parma Arquitectura has recently created the ideal desert-proof tiny home. Santerra House boasts a rammed earth and burnt timber shell, resembling the soft shades of sandstone and the surrounding landscape.

This LEED for Homes Gold project is situated on a walnut ranch in the Central Valley. Marrying modern details with the age-old tradition of rammed earth, this home sets the standard for green design. It harnesses both passive and active heating and cooling strategies including thermal mass, geothermal heat pump, solar thermal and solar PV systems. Project Architect for Feldman Architecture Photography by Joe Fletcher

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Research into an ancient building technique that uses rammed earth may help in more environmentally friendly building designs in the future.

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Rammed earth is both a building method as well as a material. The rammed earth material is a combination of earth, gravel, silt, clay and lime/cement as a stabilizer combined into a damp mix and is then rammed into forms in order to create a monolithic wall.Rammed earth construction has been around for many years, one of the most popular rammed earth walls in history is part of the great wall of china. Rammed earth construction isn't new, but it's going through a renaissance today. This…

Creating affordable housing solutions in Africa is a key challenge for many countries, and particularly homes that are eco-friendly. But Joelle Eyeson, co-founder of Hive Earth, is bringing a new and innovative solution to Ghana, and one that is replicable across the continent.

40 Camperdown Street, Brighton East VIC 3187 a 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom house sold for $3,500,000 on 2016-09-05T09:39:17.01. View listing details #2012980087 on Domain