When we recently featured Tuckey Design’s rammed earth house in rural Wiltshire, we found ourselves wanting to learn more ...
You must have heard that everything old is new again. Well, that is just what is happening with rammed earth construction. This method of building dating back thousands of years ago is undercover in ...
People built with what they could reach: stone from the hillside, timber from nearby forests, earth from the ground beneath ...
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 ...
In response to some of the challenges of climate change, the building industry is turning to some throwback techniques to reduce site impact, but also create “thermal” structures that promote passive ...
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 ...
A team from RMIT University, Australia, combined the durability of rammed earth—a construction technique used to make walls from compressed soil within a lattice of sticks or bamboo—with the ...
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.
Architect Davey McEathron’s first go at the building style incorporates ambitious curves, a mix of materials, and a ...
OUTSIDER - a magazine that transcends boundaries has launched an architectural competition that encourages exploration of the significant potential of earth as a building material. The technique is ...
It's a mud, mud, mud, mud, world in Vienna where BÜRO KLK gets heavy while renovating a Japanese restaurant. Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia ...