Any owner/builder who would study up on
rammed earth construction, both theory and applied concepts, must have The Rammed Earth House: this edition has been completely revised and pairs color photos by Cynthia Wright with discussions of the art and technology of rammed earth housing.
The principles of
rammed earth construction, perhaps the oldest form of building, are reinterpreted in this intriguing project for an experimental house.
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RAMMED EARTH CONSTRUCTION Bullfrog Films (800) 543-3764 Writer Dan Chiras, Ph.D., lives with his two sons in a nearly independent passive solar/solar electric, rammed-earth tire and straw bale home in Evergreen, Colorado.
Easton is the author of The Rammed Earth House, and is perhaps the country's most vocal proponent of
rammed earth construction: "There's one way to build your walls, and you're standing on it," he proclaims.
The method is similar to the one used for testing soil to be used in
rammed earth construction (see 76/2:33).
In modern earth building, also called
rammed earth construction, cement is added to clean mineral soil (free of humus) and a small amount of sand.