Rammed earth homes

Architecture Research Office (ARO) built this sleek, aluminum-clad chicken coop for a Hamptons backyard, both for the challenge and for "the sheer ridiculousness" of the project.

Stories about Mexican houses, including a coastal home in Colima that curves around a tropical garden and a beachfront cabana in San Juan de Alima.

Architectural studio Parma Arquitectura has recently created the ideal desert-proof tiny home. Santerra House boasts a rammed earth and burnt timber shell, resembling the soft shades of sandstone and the surrounding landscape.

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This LEED for Homes Gold project is situated on a walnut ranch in the Central Valley. Marrying modern details with the age-old tradition of rammed earth, this home sets the standard for green design. It harnesses both passive and active heating and cooling strategies including thermal mass, geothermal heat pump, solar thermal and solar PV systems. Project Architect for Feldman Architecture Photography by Joe Fletcher

Rammed earth is both a building method as well as a material. The rammed earth material is a combination of earth, gravel, silt, clay and lime/cement as a stabilizer combined into a damp mix and is then rammed into forms in order to create a monolithic wall.Rammed earth construction has been around for many years, one of the most popular rammed earth walls in history is part of the great wall of china. Rammed earth construction isn't new, but it's going through a renaissance today. This…

Research into an ancient building technique that uses rammed earth may help in more environmentally friendly building designs in the future.

Rammed earth house with an open-plan living space, private home office, large entryway, and spacious bedrooms with terraces and Jack and Jill bathrooms.

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Rost Architects design for custom contemporary desert retreat. This home is designed with rammed earth walls and exposed steel fascia. Local sand will be used for the rammed earth wall mixture so the house will blend with its surroundings.