Techniques such as adobe, rammed earth, and cob were widely applied in traditional dwellings, often associated with rustic and rural contexts, mostly on vertical surfaces and walls.

The team unearthed large rammed-earth structures, roads, slopes, residential foundations, trenches and ash pits, as well as walls dating to various phases of the wall's development.

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.

The G2 and G3 ditches and the rammed earth wall are from the same period as the main roads, walls and other rammed earth structures of the Erlitou ruins, noted Zhao Haitao, head of the Erlitou ...

Chinese archaeologists have made a significant breakthrough in the exploration of the culture of the Xia Dynasty (c.2070BC-c.1600BC) with the discovery of a rammed-earth wall suspected to be the ...

They credit the walls for this. “They are breathable and porous because of the rammed earth,” Rane points out. He adds that this quality also helps the home regulate its temperature and humidity ...

French studio Déchelette Architecture has completed Casa Franca, a townhouse and artists' studio in Paris distinguished by a large wall of rammed earth. Located in the city's 18th arrondissement ...

From a "rammed earth" house in Jones, to a made-over classic mid-century modern home in Oklahoma City's Edgemere Heights, to a vintage Bricktown warehouse married to a 1940s Quonset hut, this year ...

Up until this moment, I had only experienced rammed earth houses through digital media. From the first time I saw this architectural technique, I was intrigued by the idea that you could live in a ...

The home’s walls measure 20 inches thick – six inches of rammed earth on the outside followed by six inches of expanded polystyrene insulation and then eight more inches of rammed earth.

Rammed earth portions of the Great Wall of China — built by compressing natural materials with soils — have been regarded as a weak point in its structure. But these swaths of the iconic ...