Mario Cucinella   Italy   A fruit of the collaboration between Mario Cucinella Arquitectos – based in Bologna and New York – and WASP (World’s Advanced Saving Project), the Italian company specialized in 3D printing, this circular housing prototype made of soil is located in

Mínimo Común Arquitectura   Paraguay   Located in the middle of farmland in Curuguaty, a city in the Canindeyú Department of Paraguay, 350 kilometers from the capital, Asunción, this 200-square-meter office building by the local firm Mínimo Común Arquitectura rises on a platform, set 1.5

Dellekamp Arquitectos   Mexico   Conceived as a refuge, the Cabo House stands on a series of platforms built with local earth that descend adapting to the slope of the site. From these telluric platforms, walls of the same material, rammed earth, rise in parallels to frame views tow

DnA_Design and Architecture   China   Dedicated to Wang Jing – an imperial scholar of the Ming Dynasty who was chief editor of the Yongle Encyclopedia –, the memorial hall is inserted into the traditional town center of Wang village, which is quite run-down and threatened by neglect and

David Chipperfield   Sudan   The excavation site of Naga is one of the largest in Sudan, containing the ruins of what was one of the religious centers of the ancient Kingdom of Kush. Located some 50 kilometers to the east of the Nile River, and a three-hour drive from Khartoum,

tres birds workshop   United States   This residence of 650m² was built using 200 tons of rammed earth colored with pigments from the region, and compressed into 75cm-thick walls that provide great thermal inertia to favor energy saving. Four geothermal wells were also installed for this

SoPA (Social Practice Architecture)   Tanzania   The project was built using mainly two materials: soil excavated from the site and locally collected wood. It was completed in a period of four months, with the participation of the people of Kibaoni as well as international collaborators... [+]

FabriKG   Mexico   To protect the building from floods during the hurricane season, the structure rises 1.2m with a concrete plinth on which the rammed earth walls rest. In this way the complex seems to emerge from the ground itself in the middle of a palm grove... [+]

De Gouden Liniaal Architecten   Belgium   The tower goes up in a former gravel extraction area now converted into the nature reserve of RivierPark Maasvallei. The outer walls were built with local materials – 20% gravel, 40% ocher-colored earth, and 40% clay, stabilized with trass – in seven

Studio Octopi   United Kingdom   Around the pool of water is an inscription of text from the Magna Carta, and this is the only literal allusion in a monument of abstract forms built with rammed earth and illuminated by a powerful overhead oculus. 

Foster + Partners   France   Known for its rich historic and artistic heritage, Narbonne, founded by Romans in 118 BC, was once a major port. Today it is a vibrant city, with an impressive legacy of buildings, ancient relics, and archaeological sites. At the gates of the city, n

In the village of Rudrapur, located in the Dinajpur Disrtict of northern Bangladesh, the German architect Anna Heringer – in conjunction with Veronika Lang and the non-profit organization Dipshikha – recently completed a therapy center for people wit

The Barcelona architect Albert Faus has in the village of Youlou, on 5 hectares of 8 available, built two schools (primary and secondary) and a number of auxiliary modules (canteen, staff changing room, water tank, etc.). The main constructions have

Fernando Vela Cossío   Earth has been the quintessential building material of farming people. Thanks to its being so extraordinarily available and cheap, combined with its bioclimatic performance and its capacity to blend into the environment, raw earth has been a constant

Luis Maldonado   Thanks to its environmental benefits and also to its aesthetic qualities, the different techniques applied to construction with mud still have a future in architecture. 

Luis Maldonado   Compressed Earth Block (CEB) is a building material that is habitually used to raise walls using conventional construction techniques. It can come it different sizes, but the most common one is 15x15x30 centimeters. The most unusual aspect of the CEB

One of the main challenges of building with earth today is that of transforming its artisanal character, and begin using it in industrialized building processes. Such was the goal pursued, for instance, in the design and construction of the Gugler P

Diébédo Francis Kéré está construyendo una biblioteca pública en la aldea burkinesa de Gando, en la que el arquitecto afincado en Berlín nació hace 47 años: un nuevo edificio que se añade a los dos —aulario y residencia de profesores— que componen la

El centro de formación de Chwiter, situado en las afueras de Marrakech y diseñado por Anna Heringer, Martin Rauch, Elmar Nägele, Ernst Waibel y Salima Naji, tiene como objetivo ofrecer a los jóvenes formación profesional. En este contexto, la constr

El estudio coruñés Vier, que agrupa a los arquitectos Antonio Raya, Cristóbal Crespo, Santiago Sánchez y Enrique Antelo, firma la piscina cubierta municipal en Toro, Zamora, un equipamiento que cuenta con la singularidad de que sus muros exteriores

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