Sustainability Can Be Beautiful: Dirt + Pressure = Rammed Earth
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- Опубликовано: 16 окт 2024
- Imagine a world where we don't have to clear-cut forests to create housing. Rammed earth shows that sustainability can be beautiful.
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When Sylvia Cook was a high school physics teacher she dreamed of building the most sustainable house she possibly could when she retired. It was a "fantasy project" until she came across the idea of building with rammed earth. Now she's the owner of Aerecura Rammed Earth Builders and is building more than just her own sustainable home.
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Sustainability Can Be Beautiful. Dirt + Pressure = Rammed Earth
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This house is absolutely gorgeous! I love everything about it. Owner seemed lovely too.
I wish Kenya would adopt rammed earth houses.
We have so much soil and it's good for our environment.
BEAUTIFULLY DONE HOUSE!!!! I love how they made sure they used different colors and made designs with it waving the colors up and down using reds in some parts and grays in others, but not mixing the two just in flat sections of the same wall, very well done and thought out.
They went way overboard with the insulation. if they had just made the original walls the combination of the two wall they put the insulation between it would have still maintained that 60 to 70 degree temperature all year round like a cave, and done really well in the winter with many south facing windows to allow the sun to heat interior walls and if they did the floors the same way the floors as well which then would release that warmth throughout the night maintaining the warm temperature!!! I only point this out not as a criticism but so anyone using this as a guide to build their own know they don't need that step, you just make the walls 18" or more thick.
We as humans are evolving our homes should too! 👍
One day I will have my own rammed earth, eco friendly home, and I think i'll call this company to make that happen!
Be very careful here AWHYify. Aerecura built my house, and I don't want to see what happened to us happen to you. Do your research and get references. Contact me directly if you want all the details.
I'd like to know too.
Jeremy, any chance you'd be willing to share your thoughts with me? My husband and I just decided to start saving for a rammed earth home and this was the builder we were leaning towards.
Did you have an actual problem with rammed earth or just how they operate as a company?
Jeremy Tisdale I’d like to know as well. Is it about the company or the structure itself?
Well done, that’s inspiring!
Does rammed earth isolation work efficiently in hot climate areas like the Middle East or Arizona in the US? =)
Absolutely. It's huge in Australia.
It still has concrete in it to help hold it together but is beautiful . I'd like to build a Prevailer like this with a beautiful inner courtyard and pool
Lovely house. Out of interest could you have a rammed earth arch instead of a roof? So less wood would then be used too.
Thank you Mam for your video. I am very much inspired to build my own rammed earth house up here in the southern part of Cebu in the Philippines.
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Beautiful house! Good video production.
Compressed earth bricks are cheaper and easier to build, but rammed earth looks great.
Manit C rammed earth will make the walls one solid block whereas using bricks you have several tiny blocks glued together which is less solid and an inferior design
@@Sorel366 Great Wall sections were widely built with bricks, with lime mortar and sticky rice used to reinforce the bricks strongly enough to resist earthquakes and modern bulldozers while keeping the building intact.
Sticky rice mortar - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_rice_mortar
CEBs are not necessarily cheaper and easier to build. Firstly, you will most likely need to hire professional brick layer, which is expensive, and then you will have to plaster and paint, which adds cost. Best and cheapest alternative is prefab earth walls by ecoearthwalz. Learn more at: www.ecoearthwalz.com
Love your vision !
I wonder how this would standup when a under dirt and sod. The misses and I are exploring options and design ideas to build an earthship style passive solar home with a timber framed roof. This looks like it might be able to handle it but moisture is a concern for me.
if you mix concrete with adobe bricks, it makes them pretty water proof
10% concrete, moisture should not be a problem as long as you don't let water or humidity get to the walls.
Doesn't it require the use of cement? And therefore isn't CLT from sustainable forests much more environmentally friendly?
I am not hating and I love the look of rammed earth but to get that look requires other, unfortunately, harmful materials.
You can put 10% to make it stable.
The short (tl;dr) answer to your first question is that SRE often uses between 5 and 10% portland cement. To judge whether something is more environmentally friendly is complex. Note that the thermal mass means no energy expenditure for heating or cooling, and the lifespan (more than 500 years) means this is a very large energy savings.
Late reply , 😀 lime is used and you can even throw a 10% rice into it to give it strength as they did on the Great Wall
how is the cost? seem like cheap material but labor intensive...
If everybody could live like this wouldn't it be lovely - however - the cost of building a rammed-earth house is about $10/sq ft more expensive than stick construction which for the average income family is already a stretch to be able to comfortably afford. Rammed-earth construction done by a contractor who has all the proper equipment and knows what their doing is out of reach for most people.
I don't wish to be a wet blanket here but we see this over and over again in our capitalist system where the alpha males and females along with those who are the most intelligent/college educated etc., are the only ones who can afford to live surrounded by something as special as natural compacted earth. I love everything stated here about the product - yet the limited affordability for a relative few is wrong, very sad; a problem that generation after generation never ends.
While it is true in many so called third-world tribal cultures everyone in a village chips in to build a village member's house when they come of age, get married, etc. Unfortunately that's not a mindset easy to find in our economically stratified so called 'modern', so called 'culture'. Caste System is more like it.
Hey a great video at face value and perhaps you're thinking my comments aren't appropriate here. . . but haves vs have-nots is very real and must be addressed until it is no longer an issue for humankind.
Good environment friendly home with less carbon foot print.
Would you please share how much the project cost you?
Hermoso 💖 una experiencia inolvidable !!
wow that's amazing! thank you for sharing!
Is it best to learn this? Or hire a shutterring carpenter? I'm not very handy but can mix the stuff. Thinking about a 2000sq ft ranch home.
Is rammed earth material suitable for warm environments like in India...because it will likely release light heat at night...right? Am I wrong here..or Does it will have a cooling effect.
Please some one reply...!
~Namaste~
Are rammed earth houses more expensive ? Are they cheaper ? They look really solid, how do they hold up with earth quakes ?
Wooow super beautiful, keren banget itu kehujanan tidak hancur, di indonesia belum ada saya mau bikin thks cenelnya sangat membantu miss
But the elephant in the room is the beautiful real estate required for this home. That's a privilege very few people on the planet have, but those that do have this entitled warm smile.
Axonis theres ways to get cheap land look at owner financing a property you just have to get creative
It depends on what you're willing to sacrifice. If you want to live near a city then yes, definitely. If you want to live in the middle of nowhere then land is cheap.
there is no privelage. People work to build stuff and create. Quit talking like anyone owes you anything. No one owes you shit!
Thank u very much for the education. How may i reach i?
That works unless there are floods. I plan to move to higher ground and build a stone/ concrete water base then rammed Earth then timber. I am going to go out and take pictures of sandstone mountains I like and try to copy those designs wavy inside my house walls. I am a Gnostic / Spiritualist also I have found that the Walking Dead Black souls do not like walking through Earth so my walls of stone and earth will make them walk around my house not through it. Yahoo!! Love your home cool house !
Cob (Clay,Sand and Straw) has been used in Ireland and the UK for centuries. These countries aren't exactly the warmest or driest places year round. The key is a stone base and an over hanging roof. There are coating put on the walls to make them water repellent. Even if the walls became saturated it would take years before you saw any deterioration.
1:03 "And that's the beauty of building rammed earth homes., that it comes from the earth, it is the earth." I hate to break it to ya but literally everything we use comes from the earth and is the earth.
They meant the material earth not the processed and artificially enhanced things of earth.
i am impressed,
Amazing video Big thumbs up!
Is it possible to control the striations
Important question. I live in central North Carolina and I tend to have dry skin during winter season. Would Rammed Earth home be too dry for my skin? Is it possible to have some humidity inside A Rammed Earth home?
Keith Mitchell You could use a semi permeable sealer on the walls and install a humidifier. Or use lotion (on your skin, not the walls).
Rammed earth walls passively regulate temperature and humidity. It’s ideal for asthma sufferers. Also, earth walls are mold-free. Basically the most eco-friendly building with health-induced properties and many more benefits...too many to list here
Do you use any type of waterproofing agent such as plaster or another type?
You can add a liquid repellant solution to the earth mix
beautiful
can you please tell me Wat do you mix with earth
can you mix sand and cement as well
waiting for response
thanks
10% cement.
Круто )) Thanks! )))
at 1:18 on the corner is it likely to chip like that ? Im really interested in this stuff and I understand there is diffrent formulas for rammed earth.
Can you build more than one story using this method? How? Can anyone tell me, please.
I'm planning on building one on my land in Texas, do I have to have a permit from the city to build one?
if its less than 150sq ft I don't think so
also what would they say, if youre in the country I would just build it. not in residential
Great idea for a house
I want to build a home like this in India, can you help me find how to do, who will do it for me..thank. loved your home. It's beautiful
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Search rammed earth and rammed earth forms. Look at every video. Humidity and water will be a problem so make sure no water touches the walls (put a concrete foundation) and extend the roof out at least 2 feet.
You could check out WallMakers Architects, Kerala.
How may i reach you?
Beautiful
love it!
I wonder about cooling ? we have seen even in places like Alaska temp hitting 90's ! what if that became a norm each summer ? How do you efficiently cool in this system of home building ?
They are also cool in the summer if built properly. A smart house will have overhangs that let the low winter sun into the house but shade the high summer sun out.
Also the thermal mass and proper ventilation is important... but whats more difficult to deal with on a passive level is high humidity...but there a methods to create passive underground cooling to dehumid the are air... if your will to pay the cost for it...
Moksha Shanti
Beautiful Job11
are your forms wooden or aluminum>? just wondering
i was a dry wall guy for half of my life on earth, gypsum . did you know that the pharoas tombs were skim coated with gypsum into this layer the heiroglyphics were carved. would it not be cool to skim out your walls too and then carve in some cipher, ??, yes mais oui
wooden forms. Rarely you can use aluminum, they are more expensive but still doable.
as you mentioned the high thermal mass of it. I doubt it is a good exterior material.
...that's why they put insulation in the middle of the walls.
It’s an excellent external wall; fireproof, bullet-proof, pest-proof, load-bearing, mold-free, passively regulates temperature and humidity, can withstand hurricanes and tornadoes and lasts forever...what could be better?
Use a hydraulic press and make a brick I think it will east the work.
So where did all the "earth" come from? Was it just dug out of a hole for a basement? Was it just the earth from onsite, or did it come from places where they strip back the land to mine for the sand and clay, and other types? Seems like you cannot just dig the dirt at your building site and use it. Takes a specialized mix, which would be quite destructive to get, especially if you are talking millions of homes.
What material is used for insulation?
*Dirt.. it's all made of rammed earth.*
Insulation foam blocks
Looks like 2x 3" thick rigid Iso foam sheets for about an R-40 value..Not the greenest or most sustainable...
She saves 10,000 seabirds by building this house
What about earthquakes is ok?
I know this is an older video, but from what I can see, the technique needs to be refined. Lots of cracks.
How about with earthquake? Rain?
Asking the same question
rammed earth, along with any kind of building should have a great roof that protects it from the elements. rammed earth, stabilized CEB, and other earth structures have Portland added to it. it is more like stone than dirt once compacted, I believe Cook has a video describing this and how portland is the smallest particle of the wall that seals and protects it. Also a sealant is placed on the outside. here is the link to the video
ruclips.net/video/a-xa4FISLi8/видео.html
But how cheap is the process?.
Dirt cheap! Especially is you build with prefab earth walls by ecoearthwalz. Learn more at: www.ecoearthwalz.com
really good .... but stay away from earthquakes areas ....
OK, looks good. But I also can't afford the road to my own rammed-earth house, so I will need sky-going transportation.
As a physicist, you should get this... there is a statistically significant correlation between the temperature changes of the planets in our solar system. So either the people of Earth are heating/cooling all the planets, or the common element in all of these planets, THE SUN, is primarily responsible.
Also, NASA has just discovered that volcanic activity is melting Antarctica.
Earth's climate is incredible complex, with elements from Earth and space constantly moving in and out of the atmosphere, and the atmosphere itself constantly getting mixed vertically, horizontally, and laterally. Understanding Earth's climate cannot be simplified - especially the moronic conclusion that driving cars and using electricity makes the climate warmer. (And only paying taxes and growing government will make the Earth cooler!)
However, understanding primary temperature variation is easy: The sun gets brighter, the Earth gets warmer. The sun gets dimmer, the Earth gets cooler.
All you need to confirm this is to measure the polar ice caps. Pictures taken from space over many years clearly demonstrate this - The polar ice caps ARE shrinking - on Mars.
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She fails to mention all the cement.
One would think that digging huge pits into the planet to obtain said "earth", would be less sustainable, and more damaging to the environment ...than using logs from trees that can be replanted. I mean, I like that they're energy efficient and fireproof, but if you took all the wood off that home, it'd look like crap =P
Brandon Boyd You have to excavate for a foundation anyway. Why not use the the material to build a few walls rather than truck it out?
and you are a bit hypocritical admit how many trees were cut down in order to build this house?
USA 🇺🇸, and European countries used the most energy .. Nuclear power, Solar power ,,coal power. ⛽️. ...
"Rammed earth" = adobe
"Fighting climate change..."...how about using a resource that government has a hard time taxing twice...isn't that enough?
Good video, except for the global warming Vatican conspiracy theory.
umm, no it would not solve global warming unless everyone also adopted a vegan lifestyle or hunted for their meat. Factory farmed animal consumption is the single biggest contributing factor to global warming.
T. B. Hooray for global warming. Lets eat more meat
Insulation in the middle? Thumbs down.
arbonac isn't insulation a good thing.
It’s great, but this seams like an out of the box fantasy. Live like me she tells the world. A billion people do not even have electricity, etc...
The ecofascist undertones really ruin the story. I wish these fanatics would stop apropriating themselves these technologies as if they came up with it or something
She looks like a typical rich person who’s got enough money to be smug about fighting climate change.