Taking advantage of the inherent site levels, the house perches on the highest parcel, opening to a reserve forest to the east; BETWEENLINES designed "Breathe", an earth house with locally-made compressed earth blocks, brick jaalis and courtyards.

Most of the material was taken from in and around the immediate site. Conventional SSM construction at the foundation was replaced with Rammed earth bed and Random rubble masonry unearthed from the site belly. As a further step, a redundancy study with the structural engineer replaced areas of lesser load transfer with vehicle tyres filled and rammed with earth making them into compressed earth discs, laid at infill zones.

near the malian village of gangouroubouro, LEVS architecten has designed a primary school that both reflects and utilizes vernacular building traditions.

rammed earth house

Direct-apply lime plaster for CEB that chemically bonds, yielding high-strength, long-term generational results.

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Building with compressed-earth blocks makes sense, specially with earth building solutions, and not just because most of the construction materials are right under our feet.

Foundations and footings

The Indian architecture firm Wallmakers led by Vinu Daniel has recently completed Jack Fruit Garden Residence, a single-family home that largely constructed with CSEB (Compressed Stabilised Earth Blocks) and Rammed earth walls.