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An empty nester couple reimagined the upstairs spaces with a glass roof and rammed earth wall to grow a winter garden.
As construction of the exterior of the Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library nears completion, a towering achievement of ...
No longer limited to rural vernacular interior design, clay is being used to mould tactile walls with not just an ‘elemental ...
Rammed-earth walls come in varying colours and textures depending on the soil used. The examples below range from warm oranges, rich browns, cool greys, pinky hues and sandy tones.
Rammed earth has been used as a building material for thousands of years, and Aerecura Sustainable Builders have revitalized and modernized this ancient technique to build walls for contemporary house ...
Adjaye is not the only international architect to use the technique on a high-profile contemporary building in KSA – Snøhetta incorporated 2000m² of rammed earth walls into its 2018 King Abdulaziz ...
It’s not necessary and we don’t believe in doing that. Adding 5 or 10 per cent cement to an earth wall comes at a high cost in terms of embodied carbon. And as the facade is 500mm thick it would be ...
The detached volume, surrounded by farmland, is accessed via a winding driveway. A long, monumental rammed earth wall adorns the front of the house. It acts as a protective shield, rising up to 10 m ...
Indeed, the walls look something like adobe—the color of the local soil and the whole building will be built into the park’s berm, almost emerging from the earth, an offering to human ...
A 17th-century traditional rammed earth house at Kabesa in Thimphu is set to be restored to its original glory. The collaborative effort is to preserve Bhutan's tangible heritage. The initiative not ...
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 ...