Building with Earth: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture

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Honey House at Moab, Utah, USA

This country house was built from earth-
filled rammed tubes or sacks. The thickness
of the walls is 50 cm, and the diameter of
the interior space is 3 m. Forty tons of earth
were used in all.
The exterior surfaces are covered with
straw-loam plastering, and the edges of
the openings and the pedestal with loam
plastering. Inner surfaces were plastered
with loam.

Design and construction: Kaki Hunter, Donald
Kiffmeyer, Moab, UT, USA
Completion: 1998
Area: 11 m^2