When the house becomes redundant,
its rammed earth walls can simply be demolished and returned to the ground.»
There are three modern guest suites all featuring sculptured
rammed earth walls providing both beauty and excellent privacy.
A secluded bush lodge with
rammed earth walls and a great stone fireplace, this unusual Australian home boasts the best in contemporary design, with a touch of French flair.
Not exact matches
A
rammed earth home, however, could be built with mostly on - site materials (plus a metric boatload of labor), but that technique would work best with
walls that were vertical, not curved.
Those exterior
walls are
rammed earth, mixed with sticky rice as a binder and bamboo poles as reinforcement.
Our initial research started with techniques we find readily in California, including
rammed -
earth walls and straw bale construction.
In North America many
rammed earth buildings have cement added to the mix of
earth to preserve it, turning it almost into concrete; here, the
walls are pure dirt inside and out.
The
walls of the building are
rammed earth, built by TreeHugger regular Martin Rauch of Lehm Ton Erde (Loam Clay Ea
earth, built by TreeHugger regular Martin Rauch of Lehm Ton Erde (Loam Clay
EarthEarth).