Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture

58 Rammed earthworks

5.24 to 5.25Church,
Margaret River, Aus-
tralia
5.26Framed structure
with rammed earth
infill (CEPED, Brazil)
5.27 to 5.28Hotel,
Kooralbyn, Australia
5.29Horizontal
sections of rammed
lightweight loam walls
with inner or outer
leaf of earth blocks
acting as lost form-
work
5.30Vertical sections
of rammed earth walls
with lost formwork
on both sides

Plaster

Large blocks

Leightweight

loam

Plaster

Soil blocks

Leightweight

loam

Plaster

Plaster

Rammed earth

Leightweight

Lightweight loam blocks

5.24

5.25

5.29