Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture

1 kg alum, 1 kg clayey soil and about 40 litres of water. In 1998 the BRL developed another rein- forced rammed earth wall syste ...

Domes In order to construct a structurally optimised dome without formwork, the BRL devel- oped a rotational guide that is fixed ...

145 Earthquake-resistant building Vaults An important rule for the design of plinth and foundation is that the resulting force a ...

wrapped together with galvanised steel wire at 50 cm intervals. The arch was verti- cally positioned and fixed to steel bars tha ...

Textile walls with loam infill A BRL research project begun in 1977 examined various approaches to forming walls using textile c ...

layers of lime paint (15.52) in order to pre- vent rotting of the material and to stabilise the surface and make it waterproof. ...

149 Introduction II Built examples As shown by the examples in this chapter, modern houses whose principal building material is ...

These two houses are characterised by their green facades and roofs, which merge with the landscape, and by their ecologically a ...

151 Residences ...

152 Built examples Interior views of two semi-detached houses, Kassel, Germany ...

153 Residences A combined residence/office building was built in 1992 within a residential suburb of Kassel, Germany, that built ...

ered by earth-filled hoses and even the bathroom sink is made from unbaked loam (see pages 132 and 133) 154 Built examples Archi ...

155 Residences ...

The single-storeyed house, with a floor area (including veranda) of 206 m^2 , is mostly set into the earth berms towards the nor ...

157 Residences Honey House at Moab, Utah, USA This country house was built from earth- filled rammed tubes or sacks. The thickne ...

158 Built examples ...

The building is a three-storeyed post-and- beam structure that is planked with diago- nal buttressing sheathing. The outer walls ...

The residence is situated at the edge of Bolivia’s capital at a height of 3700 m above sea level. It is built of handmade adobes ...

161 Residences Residence, Turku, Finland The partly two-storey-high building stands at the border of the city and accommodates a ...

The two-storey residence, built of sun-dried, unstabilised and locally made adobes, pro- vides spectacular views from its terrac ...