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Rammed Earth: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Rammed earth is an ancient building technique experiencing renewed interest in contemporary architecture. The material offers thermal mass, low embodied carbon, and strong visual presence while connecting buildings to their local geology and landscape.

The community documents rammed earth projects ranging from residential homes in Ecuador and Vietnam to institutional prototypes in Ghana, alongside investigations into robotic construction systems and material innovation. Work explores how unfired earth can be shaped into sculptural forms, integrated with other materials, and adapted to diverse climates and contexts.

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Robert

177

Urban Eco-Chapel

Addis Ababa’s new ecological reserve, community space, and place of worship

Clement and Hugo

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Beyond the tree

The project is intended as an architectural interpretation of the tree. A break out of time and moments disconnected from the urban frenzy are established through the work of three interiorities. The tree becomes a project vector, a tool for designing space, sculpting architecture, orienting the believer and sequencing the path of a new chapel.

Yusuf Alperen and Zeynep

113

Gurfa Social Production Center

Gurfa is designed to be a breathing architectural complex by proposing flexible spaces and open to alternative configurations so that both today's traditions and the probable future of the cultural activities are welcomed.

paco

Wine Temple

It is sometimes by looking at everything that we see nothing. Surrounded by the vineyards, an emergence rises from the ground. A socle gradually detaching itself from the slope allows to observe what surrounds us thanks to framed views. The experience consists in the sacralization of the wine, towards the architecture, the material, the space and the light.

dharmik and 4 others

Kushaaneh, a girl who strives

Resilience Centre, Qandahar, Afghanistan

maria lucilla and 3 others

Eco Chapel - Leaf

The “Leaf” expresses a renewed conception of space, an incursion of nature into a strongly urbanized territory connected in actions and thoughts to nature. The design of a chapel and a forest in an eco perspective. A green avenue around which germinate buildings, evoking the forms of seeds and giving space to contemplation, prayer, leisure and laboratory.

hossein and 3 others

ec OASIS tem

In this project, we have tried to create a peaceful gathering place, a place where people can visit their hopes and their challenges, their future and their past, their roots and their branches. We have also promoted a green and sustainable future for the Moroccans by defining new methods.

Juan

I N T E R L U D E

Interlude is a cultural centre that aims to collect, maintain and promote local traditions and in turn making a sustainable architecture that has almost no environmental impact, thus generating a unique cultural icon in Morocco and North Africa. Just like an interlude in music, this project aims to become a place to have a break from the routine.

Maryam and Ayesh

غوټه- The Knot

The غوټه is designed in such a way that it intentionally separates the identity of the widows from everyone that lives outside the center. It is like the center is proclaiming, “Only the ones that reside within me will be intimate with my secrets.” It upgrades the value of its war-torn widows by sharing with them the experience of life within the center.

Nina

Agostinho Apartments

Agostinho Apartments is a luxury apartment block and as such the atmosphere of the proposal reflects this.

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UNI Editorial

publishedResults1 day ago

Earth Made Residence: Stacking a Ghanaian Compound House into 36 Units Made Entirely of Earth

Cublo reimagines Accra's traditional compound house as a dynamic, cantilevered block that argues earthen architecture can be iconic.

Residential Building

Housing

UNI Editorial

publishedResults2 days ago

Earth Made: Rammed Earth Housing in Accra Organised Around an Old African Courtyard

A shortlisted proposal stacks four apartment types around a planted courtyard, letting earthen walls and long openings do the cooling work.

Housing

Sustainable Design

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog1 week ago

Matéria Base Grows a Rammed Earth and Timber House out of a Mantiqueira Hillside in Joanópolis

In Joanópolis, Brazil, Matéria Base builds a 497 m² mountain house of earthen walls, stone piers and sawtooth timber roofs gathered around a pond.

Residential Building

Installations

UNI Editorial

publishedBlog4 months ago

H&P Architects Wrap a Vietnamese House in Perforated Brick to Fuse Living with Agriculture

A 270 square meter home in Mao Khe, Vietnam, uses layered terracotta screens and rooftop gardens to resist the erasure of farmland by urbanization.

Producing Earthen Bricks

Adobe Brick Making