News

Carolyn Montgomery, 95, has admired Little Compton's stone walls all of her life, and she wants to ensure future generations ...
Six months after the wildfires tore through Los Angeles, residents are tussling with the urban destruction left behind – and ...
Techniques such as adobe, rammed earth, and cob were widely applied in traditional dwellings, often associated with rustic and rural contexts, mostly on vertical surfaces and walls.
Australia’s exhibition at the nineteenth International Architecture Exhibition has opened today in the Venice Giardini as part of the Venice Architecture Biennale Vernissage. Titled Home, the ...
His design, titled ‘Nɔte Dan’ (Earth House), incorporated natural ventilation, rammed earth walls, and a beehive passive cooling system to achieve over 50 percent savings in energy and water ...
The team unearthed large rammed-earth structures, roads, slopes, residential foundations, trenches and ash pits, as well as walls dating to various phases of the wall's development.
These walls were made out of rammed earth: dirt that had been compressed and compacted and compressed to the point where each one was as solid as any concrete wall.
Former home owners thinking about rebuilding want houses that the next fire will not burn easily. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.
The G2 and G3 ditches and the rammed earth wall are from the same period as the main roads, walls and other rammed earth structures of the Erlitou ruins, noted Zhao Haitao, head of the Erlitou ...
Chinese archaeologists have made a significant breakthrough in the exploration of the culture of the Xia Dynasty (c.2070BC-c.1600BC) with the discovery of a rammed-earth wall suspected to be the ...
About the material: Soil, sand, gravel, clay, and a stabiliser come together in a damp mixture to form ‘ rammed earth ’ that is moulded into the desired shape. For the residence in question, Rane says ...
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 ...