Rammed Earth

Mexican architecture firm RIMA Design Group has connected several rammed earth structures with wood pergolas to form an arts centre in Los Cabos, Mexico.

One of Ontario’s first insulated rammed earth home is a testament to the method’s attributes.

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

Unfired earth building materials — rammed earth, adobe, compressed earth block — are a plentiful, structurally robust, and natural alternative to mainstream construction systems. Up to now, they have been more associated with the desert west, where adobe has been used for centuries, than with Central or East Texas. That could change.

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

In this post we look at rammed earth construction, how it works and some examples of some great rammed earth contemporary projects.

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

It was, as is usual for rural homes, all about the land. The developer of this sprawling house asked Lake|Flato…

tzou lubroth architekten has been asked by artist amoako boafo to design a hybrid topology that combines a home, a painter's studio, a gallery as well as facilities for three artists-in-residence in ghana.