under your feet, and it doesn’t come with all the carbon baggage that other [building] materials come with,” says studio founder Jonathan Tuckey. As a building technique, rammed earth—which combines ...

Back in 2014, Nathan and Janelle, the owners at 23 Lavadero Road , just beyond Tesuque, were living in San Francisco’s Russian Hill district when suddenly their landlord raised their rent by 40 ...

Pioneering in its approach to materials, Rammed Earth House is a home of tactile beauty, as well as one of the few examples ...

A: Typically, when using rammed-earth construction, forms are built that are one-foot thick and then filled with a mixture of gravel, sand, silt and clay. You will end up with finished walls that ...

Earthen walls were used by Kendle Design Collaborative to tie the Desert Fairway Residence in Arizona to its natural setting.

Architectural Digest editorial staff were not involved with the creation of this content. Materials tell stories about people, memories, and places. But when placed in the hands of an architect who ...

Researchers are revisiting old building practices -- the use of by-products and cast-offs -- as a way to improve building materials and sustainability of the trade. A technique known as rammed earth ...

(Nanowerk News) Engineers in Australia have developed a new building material with about one quarter of concrete’s carbon footprint, while reducing waste going to landfill (Structures, ...