Australia’s construction sector may be on the brink of a quiet revolution, one built from soil, water, and something most ...

Engineers at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) in Melbourne, Australia, have developed a new building ...

Rammed Earth House by Tuckey Design Studio wins a Best Use of Material award for its mix of forward-thinking building methods ...

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 ...

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 ...

Rammed earth technology, where waste products such as fly ash, are used as sustainable building materials can also be used to make decorative feature walls like this one at UBC Okanagan. Researchers ...

Join us for a summer workshop on earth building! We will construct a rammed earth pavilion and explore ways to use natural materials in architecture. Special attention will be given to hemp as a ...

Azadeh Weber, 44, lives in rural Washington, about 20 minutes from the closest grocery store. She built a greenhouse ADU out of rammed earth and plans to grow fruits and veggies this spring. She is ...

Jim Stephenson Recently completed in the Wiltshire countryside is a pioneering new build homestead that’s relearnt an ancient ...

Researchers are revisiting old building practices -- the use of by-products and cast-offs -- as a way to improve building materials and sustainability of the trade. A technique known as rammed earth ...