Pioneering in its approach to materials, Rammed Earth House is a home of tactile beauty, as well as one of the few examples in the UK that utilise unstabilised rammed earth on this scale ...

Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. In the early 19th century, building in earth was widespread in Britain. The brick — along with the advent of the ...

Rammed earth has been used in construction for thousands of years, with evidence of its use dating as far back as the Neolithic Period. Commonly used especially in China, the technique was applied to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Daniela Ciancio receives funding from the WA Department of Housing and the Australia Research Council. It’s fair to say that rammed earth, as a construction technique, has stood the test of time. It ...