Rammed earth wall

Rammed Earth House sees Planned Living Architects combine ideas of privacy, protection and immersion to propose a secluded and calming abode.

Image 17 of 29 from gallery of Casa Sal / R/MA Rivero Mas Asociados. Photograph by Rafael Gamo

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

ASIRI Designs is a building science consulting firm focused on the design & construction of new and existing buildings for longterm durability and performance.

For thousands of years, rammed earth has been a hallmark of sustainable construction - thick insulating walls made from rock and earth sourced from the building site itself, or just nearby. Rammed earth has gone through a renaissance of sorts over the past 30 years with the craft being celebrated

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…

Rammed earth house with an open-plan living space, private home office, large entryway, and spacious bedrooms with terraces and Jack and Jill bathrooms.

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