The first image that comes to the mind of many when you talk about rammed earth houses is the grass-thatched mud house synonymous with rural areas. Most people’s reaction is that there is no way one ...

Whether you're into bite-sized DIY projects, like building your own backyard fire pit, or bigger endeavors, like coating your garage floor, it's valuable to know some basics about construction and ...

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 ...

Andrew Crisp Elizabeth Jacox speaks with the crowd about John and Marjorie Fairchild's rammed earth home. A home constructed almost entirely of dirt sits just above Boise's Hill Road. But unlike other ...

BROOKINGS, S.D. - An Australian architectural professor visited South Dakota State University in late April to advise on how to preserve a 90-year-old rammed earth experimental building on campus.

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 ...

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's ...

Thinking of building a new home? Why not save a few trees and opt to construct your dream house out of earth? What can be more natural than the soil we walk on? It's part of the current "green ...

Constrained by a lack of transportation and resources, vernacular architecture has started adapting the distinct strategy of utilizing local materials. By analyzing projects which have successfully ...