Nations led design team discuss how, when words fail us, architecture can empower us with an empathetic sense of being.

Anandaloy's walls were ... and architectural design," the jury commented. More recently, these lessons have been brought closer to home in an ongoing project for two rammed-earth buildings for ...

The walls, built from rammed earth and steel beams ... filling the home with fresh air and ample sunlight. The futuristic design puts a modern spin on the studio home without detracting from ...

Running alongside the rammed earth wall, allowing the wall to draw moisture ... an integrated rainwater collection system and a landscape design by Terragram round out the ways Rosselli has ...

The design departs from convention ... Through strategic orientation and optimising the thermal mass of the rammed earth walls and polished concrete floors, internal temperatures can be stabilised ...

Speaking of those rammed earth walls—they’re not just there to look pretty ... Michael Ferris didn’t just design these buildings; he also made many of the details by hand, like the basins and light ...

Passive heating and cooling are also essential to the design—only the operating theatre within the surgery building is mechanically conditioned. Insulated roofs, an uncommon feature in the region, ...

The project would involve building walls and rooms in a factory and then assembling ... for the future housing of SA by using recycled steel and rammed earth for the builds. “We had to design a tiny ...

Year 11 student Jairaj Shekhawat has proposed an eco-friendly high-rise solution to SA’s housing crisis in his application for Teen parliament 2025. Apply here. A family trip to India inspired year 11 ...

The interiors of the recently completed cottages at Kavillo Studios, for instance, are built from humble materials – rammed earth ... and robust sliding glass walls open the structures up ...