Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture

Formwork Lightweight loam walls can be constructed using any type of formwork, but since less impact is involved than with ramme ...

84 Tamped lightweight loam than 25 cm in thickness, the straw might rot in the interior of the wall. Illustration 10. 4 shows an ...

en members were totally destroyed by fun- gus because the drying period of the wood loam was more than one year. Tamped, poured ...

Tamped walls Illustration 10. 6shows the construction of a building in Pujili, Ecuador, using pumice as lightweight aggregate mi ...

little bit thinner than for pouring. It can be pumped up to heights of two storeys using hoses. Illustration 10 .17shows the exa ...

straw loam walls which require at least two layers). In 10 .19, we see a lightweight miner- al loam wall with a density of 1000 ...

Loam-filled hollow blocks In industrialised countries, there are many different types of hollow blocks available, which are usua ...

Loam-filled hoses A new technique, developed by the author of this book, was used in 1992 for three res- idences in Kassel, Germ ...

91 Tamped lightweight loam 10.26 to 10.28Making a bathroom wall from Loam-filled hoses cotton hoses 10.29Horizontal section of a ...

Loam plasters consist mainly of sand and silt with only as much clay as is necessary (usually between 5% and 12%) for develop- i ...

Animal or human hair, coconut or sisal fibres, cut straw or hay should be added (however, too much of these additives reduce th ...

If the surface of the walls demands a plaster thicker than 15 mm, this should be applied in two layers, with the ground layer co ...

To reduce shrinkage cracks while drying, the mortar should contain sufficient quanti- ties of coarse sand as well as fibres or ...

Australia, France, Scandinavia and other European countries. Most historic walls of this kind were load-bearing. Nowadays mainly ...

97 Loam plasters 11.13 11.12 11.10 11.11 9Sculptural earth wall 11.10Spraying of earth plaster to straw bale wall 11.11Smoothen ...

Loam surfaces need not always have addi- tives in to be made weather-resistant. It is often sufficient to protect or harden them ...

Lime-casein wash Lime washes are much more wipe-resistant and durable if whey, fat-free white cheese (quark) or casein powder is ...

6 kg of tallow (melted suet) is poured into 36 litres of water. This mixture is stirred care- fully (care has to be taken becaus ...

enced by their coatings. Table 12. 2gives some capillary water intake coefficients (w-values) of loam plaster with and without a ...

in turn enlarges cracks and even causes plaster to flake off. During repairs undertaken in 1992, the old- est German rammed eart ...