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 ...

Rammed earth is one of humanity’s oldest methods of construction, packing natural raw components like dirt, chalk, and lime into a hard material resembling adobe. But where adobe requires dry weather ...

Rammed earth is the descendant of ancient construction techniques like adobe or cob building. It can be used to build walls for many kinds of buildings, from houses to museums and even cemeteries. The ...

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 ...

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 ...

The historical journey of construction also tells the story of humanity. The enduring examples from the past reveal insights into their specific contexts, and the remnants that have survived 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.

Sand sourced from four different regions creates a "geological canvas" of coloured and textured strata in the rammed-earth walls of this home in India, designed by Ahmedabad studio Hiren Patel ...