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Déchelette Architecture has completed Casa Franca, a townhouse and artists' studio in Paris distinguished by a large wall of rammed earth.
As construction of the exterior of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library nears completion, a towering achievement of construction and design soars inside.
Casa Lasso uses a rammed earth building technique to create a foundation made of natural elements. See the eco-friendly home and its zen interiors.
A wood-and-earth flat roof tops the adobe outer walls and the interior rammed earth walls, which are finished with a mixture of earth and gypsum.
From India to South Africa, our latest lookbook collects living rooms that showcase the diversity in colour and texture of rammed-earth walls.
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 technique survive at ...
It consists not just of rammed earth walls, but also a rammed earth roof, which is itself protected by a secondary green roof that shades it.
Ground has broken on a new campus for the sports and educational institute the El Cambio Academy in Masaka, south west Uganda ...
To list a few, rammed earth foundation, stabilised soil cement block walls, different kinds of arches, corbelled projections, walls with inter ocking mud blocks, vaults without shuttering, flat ...
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 ...
Earth homes are making a comeback—and they’re built the old-fashioned way: with sweat, soil, and ancient manual labor. From cob walls to rammed earth foundations, we explore how traditional building ...