Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture

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The building is a three-storeyed post-and-
beam structure that is planked with diago-
nal buttressing sheathing. The outer walls
bear an exterior lime plastering on light-
weight wood wool construction slabs,
behind which lies a 12-cm-thick cellulose
insulation. The insides of the exterior walls
consist of 20-cm-thick rammed lightweight
woodchip shaving loam coated with loam
plastering. The weather-exposed gable is
provided with rear-ventilated larch wood
sheathing. The inner walls are filled in with
adobes. The brick roof and the balcony pro-
jects outward so that the southern rooms
are shadowed in summer, yet admit sun-
light in wintertime.

Mii amo Spa at Sedona, Arizona, USA

USA
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