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 ...

Architect Eddie Jones worked in ample unconventional design elements that make the Arizona heat more livable, while sneaking ...

On the site of a former brickworks in rural Wiltshire, London-based Tuckey Design Studio has completed a new country house built from the ground beneath it. The project, a rammed earth house, uses ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Bachelor's theses are usually just theoretical. Not so for Olin Petzold and Marlene Braun. Together with students from ...