Rammed Earth movie
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- Опубликовано: 7 авг 2017
- did you know that travertine , sand stone , marbles, and granite use to be dirt and mother nature compressed them to todays product.
Disclaimer: This is not my video I am just sharing it for awareness earthen bricks of Rammed Earth Homes. Dirt and Portland cement construction way
love this way of building a very durable home
Here the links for more information and the original video in the collection
A big thanks to Jim Hallock
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Beautiful lady with a lovely voice. Gorgeous home. We are building ours new month. Getting started is what I should have said. Loved the video. So inspiring.
This is the coolest thing I ever seen. How awesome!
It was very spiritual & down to earth experience...BEAUTIFUL
Gonna build my tiny house with rammed earth❤️
It is Not the most space efficient
How thick will you make the walls?
As a learning project I'm going to build a rammed earth outhouse.
Wow what a lovely concept..I am going to try it...thank you so much..🌹🌺🏵️🌷👌🌿☘️🍀👍🥀
I first read about rammed earth houses in "THE MOTHER EARTH NEWS/Magazine." in the early 70's.
Used to be my favorite magazine. They sure have changed.
Rammed earth, Hemp/lime construction & Biotechture Earthship design should be the mainstream for building today and the future. conforming to Brick veneerial disease is mad.
oh yes
Lime is C02 intensive to create.
@@derekcraig3617 Less than cement.
You care to elaborate on that last part please???
The first 45 seconds Jim Hallock is talking about Compressed Earth Block another form of earthen construction. CEB4LYFE
Haha lol CEB4LYFE!!!
Fantastic!
Such a nice lady. I wish she would have been my physics teacher...
Beautiful home.
Kinda stumbled across this topic. Have been fascinated by homesteading/minimalist getting back to basics lifestyle. The big question was if this was even achievable as a sole provider for a large blended family. I’m now extremely fascinated by this concept, and look forward to exploring it further. Thank you for sharing this video. Knowledge is power!
just use adobe brick....
Ironically, these rich-eco-''hippies'' are building HUGE homes.
... not ''minimalist'' by any stretch of the imagination.
Beautiful ! I would love a Rammed earth Tiny Home , so now they need to be Affordable for those who dont have the means, as in. What a Tiny Home has done for so many.. 🙏♥️💕
we will make one soon
@@JoseAlvarado72 Where? I'd like to be volunteer for that project. I live in SW Missouri and I'm retired. I'm an energy nut so I have a lot of ideas.
@@kenhurley4441 can you also come and volunteer to teach in the Philippines ? A lot of people are interested to learn here but most don’t have the means. I’m trying to advocate environment-friendly ways to build houses and we would love to host you.
I like her optimistic attitude, but everyone having a rammed earth house would not mean that global warming would be solved, although it would help a hell of a lot at reducing it. Great video none the less :)
Solving sustainable housing wouldn't alone mean that no, but I think her point was sustainable housing is a key.
Randy Bachman of BTO lives in a gorgeous rammed earth house on Saltspring Island BC.
Now combine this with bermed home design and we are REALLY cooking! THank you for this!
Great thank you!
I would. As far as environmental concerns it still requires cement mixing into the dirt. It has production cost as well.
What a powerful intro punch...
Past three years I educating people about this, unfortunately I haven't found any client for my consultancy, being and Architect its very important to inculcate the true concept of a building, its material, and construction technique
if i wanted to build a house like that, how much would it cost?
This is a really great thing. However, the design could have been more suited for rammed Earth. The building could have more walls and less wood, also some principles learned from the Earthship people such as passive heating and cooling.
The formal building standard states clearly do not use cement. Why builders add it is odd when the international code states that cement inhibits the bond.
@@johnm.515 Where can I verify that?
Regardless of “saving the planet” so to speak, it’s beautiful:)
I love this material, and much more studies should be done in order to surpass the limitation of the "cottage in the woods" concept, since optimized urban density is a key factor for efficient future urban development (we cannot build everywhere ad-infinitum) if we really want to assure the survival of cities we have to leave plenty of open spaces for free running water (minimal intervention on river beds and the upper river basins), as for agriculture and healthy, well functioning ecosystems (which cannot be "isles" and need "corridors")... mud, bamboo, wood and straw are unsurpassed materials that await studies to prove how and to what extent can they also be used in bigger (taller) housing units... it would be wise to limit concrete use to where it is still the best technical solution, and use low carbon intensive renewable materials everywhere else
Sylvia cook, you are an angel. 🙏🏻❤️☀️. Beautiful house.
I love concrete despite the "coldness". This is beautifully similar, but much warmer in appearance.
There is no significant man made global warming, we'd been duped by profiteers...
... efficiency, beauty, and art in design and construction, are totally worthwhile regardless.
Fuck outta here with your dumb ass conspiracy theories. You've been duped by big oil propaganda
I am happy this will solve the worlds problems. I hope it will cure cancer also.
Lots of experts posting here.
I don't use these techniques in my projects anymore, because it's time consuming and the training of labor is rigorous. I'm hibernating staggered wall stick frame construction and adobe brick with great success.
Oh this is pretty cool. This looks like it works great with the compressed earth blocks. Or maybe even beats them in some ways? Can you form large floor slabs and foundations.
all is possible is just a mater of planing and making the calculation and testing before you commit to do it in large scale
did you know that travertine , sand stone , marbles, and granite use to be dirt and mother nature compressed them to todays product.
@@JoseAlvarado72 yes well earth has alot more compressing energy and heat then most any men can make. This is attempting to form sand stone with out heat or constant pressure. Using a binder like cement. Anyway i like the idea but i want something with a much smoother finish like porcelin which i know is possible because ive seen sheer zones in rocks that are silk smooth. The problem is the need for extreme compression and time spent compressed. Compressing it warms it already so that helps but it really needs to cook at a high psi. Im thinking bigger stronger heavyer molds. Faced with a high density polymer and backed with steel and hydrolics. Compress the material for long enough and hard enough and yeah you can have man made stone stronger then any stone. Basically i want to make this match or exceed granite specs. As granite is a very very good building stone. Honestly before finding compressed earth tech all i wanted was black granite. And i still think black granite is the most beautiful of stone. Anyway this is something i plan on learning from its a intersting alternative to concrete which i dont like that much.
@@robertbogan225 that is great idea and i do love granite too i wish i build a house of pure granite and thank you for your info i bet someone out there is already compressing large amounts of materials for greater results and faster builds
love the human mind
there are no limits
those beveled corners do look good
The idea of using compressed dirt is very old and still great in many applications. And no real offense intended but the idea that it would cure global warming or cooling or the common cold needs to remain on the short bus.
I agree. It's very labor intensive to build. It requires a massive amount of wooden frame construction to contain the earth as it is being tamped down. What happens to all that wood when the project is done? It's all been cut up into shapes very specific to the house being built and unless you are building several exactly like it you can't reuse all of that wood. It is either discarded, burned, or chopped up into something that might be recyclable. The only thing that is "cheap" about the building method is the dirt. It would be cheaper to just build the house out of the wood that would have been used to build the framework.
@@HotspotsSoutheast plus all of the thick, solid, expensive and extensive use of architectural beams, walls, stairs and hardwood flooring.
Nevermind the nonstop burning of dirty medium sulfur off-road diesel fuel thats powering the entire process.. starting with the first bucket of dirt all the way through screening, mixing, prepping, (hauling?), and even the pneumatic tamping she was so cluelessly proud of. Thats right, the compressed air for tamping on that scale typically comes from a Sullair brand diesel compressor - the thing is its own trailer - and its going to run alllll day long for months.
Good thing it'll last forever, 'cause thats how long it'll take to break even with its carbon footprint.
For comparison, a similar concrete home with hot/cold water circulating through the walls and floors is built in 1/3 the time using recyclable aluminum forms that are reusable many times over.
Concrete is also mostly sand and gravel, dye can be added for color, and embossed forms for texture.
There is nothing cheap or conservative about the home shown, in fact it exemplifies the comedic irony surrounding every idealistic pie-in-the-sky notion coming out of certain annoying demographics. Truth is we just watched a company promotional video disguised as a heartfelt eco do-gooder trying to improve the world... just another in a long line.
@@dash8465 Seems like the wood used could be offset with tree plantings. Could you run the compressor on bio diesel?
Its footprint is extremely low compared to conventional construction materials.
@@HotspotsSoutheast use steel frames instead of wood. It can be used again and again and again, as interlocking modules.
Have a question:
Is there any kind of rebar, or just dirt?
...and that is how sedimentary rocks are formed. But once in time, they were solid stones; and so on.
What as gentle and sofisticated way to fool the people lol!
Can we drill holes and hang large screen televisions on wall or it required any reinforcement ??
Kentucky and Colorado as the whole United states needs this type of homes
I love it! Is anyone doing 3D ''printed'' automated rammed Earth homes yet?
sanjuansteve
Thanks for asking
There is a company that is making prefabricated walls with a semi automatic machine but that is not 3D printed house jet I will make it happen soon thanks
Is not that easy to make a 3D printed rammed earth house
There are lots of rebar, electrical , plumbing, and sensors in the wall for a fully automatic 3D printed system but soon with an AI (Artificial Intelligence) will be possible
Ive seen one do it with concrete. It made a little dome kind of round house. Easy way is a concrete tube on a arm going in a circle which is why it was round dome houses.
One day, when the doctors fix me I want one but does anyone know the cost? I need to know if it’ll fit into my plans. Thank you for the video even though it’s first time I saw it because it was just now recommended to me
Yes absolutely
No heat or cooling in a pine tree covered area. Hey MS SECOND GRADE TEACHER, try that in the deserts of Arizona. It'll work, but you might want a little help with some A/C in the summer time.
I am confused with so many options ?
What is best for me, i have fertile soil, water source, mud, hay, (wood is not cheap at my location) so can opt for bamboo.
To reduce dampness in future, my plan is to get stone foundation (which will be a bit expensive) and 2-2.5 ft stone wall and on top adobe brick, or rammed or cob ???
pls suggest, it dosent snow, but rain 3 months, summers hot 42 degree and winters cold 7 to 8 degree
Adobe es una buena opción térmica y resistente
With the middle layer of insulation I fail to see how, either, the humidity can be drawn out or the "slowly released" heat exchange between the exterior to the interior could happen when it has the barrier of I'm assuming closed cell foam?
She also thinks that she's saving the forests and yet still has a significant quantity of processed timber in her house, which I'm pretty sure is still flammable- so sure her walls might still remain after a fire but that'd be about it!! Looks good though....
I understand the heat exchange won’t be possible without a Air System in place
There are no limits to the different ways of construction of the walls some walls of rammed earth have no insulation at all and the earth bricks have no insulation either so those walls breath
Is a design for the region that you live all are different
timber is actually a more eco-friendly material compared to most others. This way of building still save forests tho, by consuming less.
The rammed earth has a lot of pores which are unseen and they regulate the temperature in the building. Just like a clay pot and a brick house.
The walls show that they are made in layers. Is there rebar added to ensure strength? It looks gorgeous!
Yes.
Has anyone used a vibratory plate compactor to compact their rammed earth wall? I am planning on building thicker rammed earth walls (approx. 18 inches thick) and a plate compactor I own is about 17 inches wide and do not relish using a tiny hydraulic or hand tamper for a year or more to construct my house. The plate compactor is designed to compact dry soil anyway, so why couldn't put in your lifts of properly mixed soil, use the plate compactor to compact to the rammed earth to the desired density, then repeat for each layer? I will do a test this spring and see how it goes, but wondering if anyone every used this method?
great just remember to make test runs
for psi test
and make sure your forms are secure and strong
because the surface in 17 inches plate is to wide and my need more (time /duration) and more pressure to compact down
I keep wondering when this will really take off.
We've been building homes like this for thousands of years. It is not a new concept.
you want a gold star?
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If you clear cut renewable pine, you are saving all the topsoil rammed earth it taking.
Hello Jose, Where would we take the soil without damaging the earth and also how would we reinstate the extracted material? Thank you in advance
this is a great question one example is the new freeway lanes downtown in las vegas is producing hundreds of tons of dirt and they are relocating it or the pool companies sometimes give and deliver that dirt for free
Usually when you dig your foundation or basement you get alot of soil.
How does rammed earth houses hold up when foundations settles? Can structural cracks be repaired in Rammed Earth structures?
yes if it ever happens.
but all you need is a concrete color mix to repair rammed earth structures.
is this way is good with the sand ?
They sa in all of the U.S. but here in the northeast we have been getting loads of rain. Wonder how well it holds up or is there a concrete binder mixed in for strength?
There are some risks on a higher moisture zone but all areas are ok to build with rammed earth just test different concrete % in walls before building the hole house
Thanks
How much would a tiny house version of this cost and are there builders who build them? Thank you.
All depends on your idea of a tiny house
And if you have a permit for a tiny house in your city or county but I will say if you hire a contractor you will be spending around 65k or if you build it with friends and family and church members helping you can build a great tiny house for as low as 25k all included
We are clearing our land and thinking about a rammed earth or an adobe earth bag home. Any suggestions on which one is better.
Rammed earth is better in my opinion you just need a plan and form for your walls I think is the cheapest way to build a house
Looks Great. what sort of foundations are required for this building method?
a normal concrete foundation and concrete base with rebar will do
usualy the structure engenier will explain the best shoise
@Darren Munsell thanks! Concrete is always the go to but would be very Interested to see rammed earth foundations to keep the environmental credentials. Could see water being an issue but plastic lining for this sounds like a good solution!
Rammed earth.....and cement, it is highly improbable that they only use rammed earth.
You can use lime when earth with higher clay content is available, but you are right, for sandy or silt earth they mix 5-7% of cement into mixture.
Only a thin outer layer is made from stone, the rest of it is made from earth.
@@yarpenzirgin1826 Lime takes C02 to create make no mistake about it. yes it takes up C02 after it reacts with water but it doesn't take up the c02 that it took to fire the limestone
@@derekcraig3617 much less than cement manufacturing process. It is not CO2 neutral, but "less bad".
@@yarpenzirgin1826 Agreed. But many in the 'green' building sector will bill it as carbon neutral. Which is totally greenwashing
They always fail to mention the cost. It's steep.
what makes it expensive ?
Too true. It can't go mainstream because it's so labor intensive. Can't do tracts of houses in subdivisions in a city with this method.
I'd still love to build one though... A rammed earth straw bale hybrid design.
And the fuel costs it takes to mix the earth amd fill the walls. Not to mention the cement mixed into the walls. And the high fuel costs ut takes to heat a rammed earth home because of the low insulation values
Here in Brazil this is one of the cheapests ways to build, yet few people do it simply because they don't know it exists. That might change from now on, as this method was put in official normative in 2022. Here we have cheap labour and expensive materials, so when you find a way to build with a material available everywhere, it's affordable to hire workers to build.
I have learned one thing from these things. All of these are cost-saving unless you build yourself with the help of friends and family (which means lots of labor ). Because all these methods are not so common and are also time taking processes.
Questions does it need to put some rears?
yes rebars are essential for seismic forces protection and durability
When you put insulation in the wall how could the walls absorb heat during the day and release it back in the house?
that is impossible if you install insulation in the walls
that will only occur if the walls are thick rammed earth and have no insulation
some architects like to add insulation in the walls for
coold and heavy snow areas.
Actually the right answer is, that it works exactly as without insulation, BUT with insulation the heat transfer is much slower. So in summer the outside is heating inside slower and in winter the opposite. End result is lower need for additional heating/cooling -> lower energy consumption and more steady temperature inside
Where do I get the home plans for this...building in California Joshua tree desert
all the plans are in the county on the respective city you can buy a copy of them by the county any time you can buy them from the construction company also
Jose Alvarado this answer does not make any sense. The city does not sell home plans
How do you hang pictures on the wall of a rammed earth house?
masonry anchors
You can also embed a hanging strip of wood into the wall during forming if you wish to have have many things hung on a wall. Think of similar to a chair rail. In general you design rooms such that there is a mix of RE and wallboard walls in a single room so you can hang things on the wallboard.
With magnets in the wall at strategic. Places
step 1: get a hammer and a nail
step 2: hammer the nail into the wall
step 3: hang whatever you want to hang
Thank you.
Is this suited for Florida and Florida is hurricanes, mold, allergies, and I can go on on bugs, This is what the coast need to do and also Monolithic domes and they both suit the same purpose. Earthquake proof, hurricanes, fires, etc. and Bugs and roof proof as well. Beautiful and I wish all building will be building like this and especially, in the Panhandle and the coast where hurricanes are getting bigger and stronger.
Anything is possible by design your house can became the perfect shelter for any environment any place.
Love to do this ..rammed earth natural made product fire proof thermally stable
I totally like this but the funny thing to me was she said the great wall of China was built thousands of years ago but over 80% of the great wall was reconstructed in the 1980's.
Funny how people feel like they just discovered rammed earth houses. SMH my father constructed a rammed earth home years ago in Mora New Mexico were these are very common because most people there cant afford building materials. I'm happy people are figuring it out again , but for them to pretend like it's been rediscovered from centuries old is hilarious, I've said for years and I'll say it again ignorance is bliss...
vegasheat71 this is humanity, keep something out of the public eye until forgotten, then bring it back call it new and improved, charge 4 times what is worth... yea, we talking monkey's went to the moon, lol, maybe in another epoch....
Yes, just like in Australia they have just discovered this thousand year old technology called back burning. It's an amazing thing. The native aborigines would burn the dead brush to prevent large scale fires. We used to do that for many years until the environmentalists told us to stop because it endangered salamanders and owls.
So it’s funny that people learn something they didn’t know about? You sound like an asshole. Lol.
In case you didn’t realize this... Banks usually don’t loan money on these kinds of builds & HOA & other zoning regs usually won’t don’t allow it. You need cash in hand & land that doesn’t fall under strict zoning rules & that’s difficult to find anywhere near a big city.
(FYI, There are 49 other states in the US with different rules & situations than New Mexico. )
& it’s probly not convenient if you have to drive anywhere in town to get to work anyway... Plus hooking up to water & electrical might not be feasible. So its just not something the average person would even consider or need to know.
So no one is pretending like this is something new... there’s just more people doing it now & RUclips probly wasn’t around when your dad built his house. Which is good because it probly looked like shit & didn’t have running water or electricity.
Stop trying to act like a know it all. That’s exactly why you don’t have any friends.
GottliebPins lol. I wasn’t replying to your comment dumbass. I was replying to vegasheat71. Sorry to burst your bubble but not everything is about you.
Infamous EJ you confirmed that you are indeed an asshole. Congratulation!
Thanks for the great information. I wonder about the seismic design of the rammed-earth building. In this video, you only mention that it is ductile. Ductility is not enough to resist lateral forces during a massive quake. You need a perfect shear wall design for lateral loads. Is there any study for the seismic design of rammed earth structural systems?
This shows chunks of earth missing from an inside wall. Though it shows pictures hanging on the walls that still makes me wonder how much stress it can withstand. How would it do in Florida close to a beach? There is another video of a house of cement constructed by a 3D printer. I think I would prefer the cement house.
The missing mud is known as clay explosion. It's just chunks of clay that have absorbed too much water drying up. It has no structural impact. Once the wall is cured and dry, you'd probably need to bulldoze it in order to break it. Trust me, a house built with mud is better than a cement house in any and every conceivable way !
Do you have any resources for builders and kits-plans for these? Can I order labor and/or builders for these with ease that are competent in America? Any resources for the east coast?
@Ryan Anderson Thanks. I have heard this, but seem many are going up. Hope the laws change on these being allowed everywhere. Some rebates and incentives to build them instead ) Peace and Best Wishes!
Just keep saying its concrete. They will usually inspect plans and molds and holes but they dont watch the pour. Then they check the finish. Just keep saying its concrete.
@@robertbogan225 Thank You
What type of insulation did the lady use between her rammed earth walls?
styrofoam block
Nice
Interresting! What's exactly the composition of the building material if it's sementless concrete? And what's the average cost of rammed earth home? Thank you?
there are no exact material compositions all areas of the world are different in color and in clay percentage, some dirt is more sand than clay but you can test the following for load pressures
60 to 80 % dirth 20 to 30% clay 3 to 8% sand 4 to 10% portland cement
remember this is a drypack consistency
you use what is best for you
the cost varies if you round it up is about the same cost of a conventional home
if you make it your self as owner build you can save lots of money I have seen people build their home by hand for
as little as $36 dollars SQFT
I wich i could! Ill have to shut my bu a iness off for while ... To build my own home ...
every positive thing said in this is more accessible by just using adobe.
Can Adobe be used for cold climates?
More accessible.
Less beautiful to me.
Adobe structures require constant maintenance every year, which rammed earth doesnt.
Is it water proof
Can you pls indicate the mixing of soil and cement tnx.
Jurylin Faschar it is up to you and the soil composition that you have at hand but in general is around 8% cement I have used 5% in some planter walls and I love it but for structural support I use 8% to 10% most of the time don’t forget the metal rebar
Mycellum bricks with thin slab of rammed earth for good finish??
Can you paint the inside walls? As long as it's eco-frendly?
yes but is better not to paint only seal them
they are some sort of art
@@JoseAlvarado72 Thankyou for your responce 🤗
It’s too bad there are not more examples of Rammed-Earth videos on RUclips that it makes me wonder why?
It’s also called earth block
I live in an area where Radon is an issue. It's caused, as I understand form elements in the soil decomposing. Minerial, not organic elements, so does rammed earth release Radon ?
if you build a rammed earth hose in the area where Radon is present, yes it will be contaminated air around that area
You can build a ventilation system that will let the Radon pass through and go into the air.
How does it smell?
Am I the only one who finds the audio and music mixing abrasive?
it definitely makes it sound like some sort of cult...
Visit Algeria if you want to learn about this technique.
The valley of mzab ( Ghardaia, and five other cities), plus the city of old Algiers ( kasbah), still standing and occupied after five centuries.
_and it's artistic, too.._
*practical* ✅
*pretty* ✅
*saves your life* ✅
Hello Jose. Would you please explain how this structure could be earthquake resistant.? Have you performed any structural tests to prove this point. What municipality this house was approved in? Structures like these are very popular in Western Africa, but possibility of building these structures are zero in, for example, San Mateo county.
All projects are different most of this are in Australia and many of them are in New Mexico in the usa the Extructual engineers calculate the rebar needed for seismic resistance or earthquake resistance
Jose Alvarado In Australia you are lucky, low seismicity allows you to have buildings built from URM (Unreinforced Masonry) and contemporary buildings together. I was in Sydney and Melbourne last September and was impressed with architecture. Here in California we cannot build buildings like you are proposing in this video because this structural system is not listed in the CBC (California Building Code) and no municipality will approve project like this. I am a Structural Engineer and I would not dare to design structure like this because it could collapse on the occupants during seismic event. Nobody tested shear walls like you are proposing, you just cannot rely on bond between reinforcing steel and mud mixed with cement. So, claim that this is an EQ resistant structure is a big-big stretch.....
Igor Kharitonoff
I will say we have a lot to learn but is possible to create a strong structure with this materials
www.construction.eca.ed.ac.uk/case-study/down-to-earth-materials/
As with every thing else this house was built with the same consumables as everything else. Or did you eat the forms .
Alot of concrete guys reuse there forms so maybe the same here. Other wise its hundreds of dollers of wood on top of the concrete cost.
Yes.
what is termal isolation inside that house?
the wall itself is the thermal insulation because of the size of the wall around 16 inches wide and some builders will ad foam insolation in the center of the wall
Why are the governments not funding this ? looks so beautiful and saves our planet
She was obviously a third grade teacher. When everything is solved so simply.
LOL!! I was thinking about that. She must never be planning to fly or drive anywhere ever again, let alone use one product based from petroleum. The Electric? If not self-generated, it's from large, coal-fired facilities, and many municipalities are forbidding "off-grid" living, more and more frequently.
I might add that as an HVACR guy, the gasses we're using for AC now are both green-house and GW compliant, many with "0" impact on either. My older R-22 system in my home has been operating and using the same gas for nearly 30 years now. When it finally dies, the gas will by law, be collected and disposed of; broken down by element and converted to a modern compliant gas. She's not using oil or NG. Yes, that's great. That can't be practical for every climate. I've not seen any of these structures without some form of supplemental heat.
I wonder how many times she pats herself on the back in a day
This will be difficult but they won't lose, the same with citeh, holding si the only worry especially if they play Nunez against him (who's like a blunt machete, like can still hurt you )
Trossard to start for initial control, but Gabi as a sub will kill them
The great wall is actually built from bricks.
Price? The material itself is nice but what is the price? Could not afford concrete so this might be to expensive for the avarage family. Think cob or some kind of cob brick that you can produce yourself and build yourself might be a more viable solution for the masses.
Hempcrete. Check those videos out.
Hi, can rammed earth Be used in a very humid climate like Puerto Rico?
yes rammed earth homes are the same as concrete wall homes they can be use in high humidity areas
I don't get the benefit to having a middle with insulation. It seems like a harder pour, more steps. Wouldn't having a solid wall of rammed earth work as insulation anyway?
you are right is better just dirt
they just overdid it and overspent because of the snow presence but is not necessary.
No it wouldn't work because rammed earth is a very poor insulator for winter.
What about flood regions? Will it be suitable?
only if you know the water flow areas' height and project a concrete foundation for redirecting a water flow. but yes is possible
Won't heavy rain and strong winds erode the rammed earth or is there a binding agent added to the earth?
The answer to your question is no rain or winds won't erode the rammed earth walls
they are strong just like concrete with a bonding agent added.
i want see it during earthquake.. it needs some kind of support otherwise it cud crack
Dave Hart was
live N let live
you need to use rebar for seismically active areas, same as with concrete.
"Withstand earthquakes, if built right" what is the proper way to build ram earth walls to withstand earthquakes.
You must follow the Extructual engineer instructions in some cases is close proximity rebar mesh or wire inside the walls
Jose Alvarado cool, thanks
Anything can withstand earthquakes if built right. Wood fairs better because of its flexibility, but you can certainly build stronger wood buildings by bracing them and putting studs closer together or using timber framing.
Yes, they use rebar and mix cement into the dirt. If it was just unbaked dirt you could punch right through it.
There is nothing new under the Sun.
Very inspiring
Architects.
Always leaving out the reality of actually building.
I also love the shots of the Great Wall of China with all the mortar joints and brick or stone " rammed" .... don't you miss the old days of RUclips when the s*** was real
What are the costs