Land: 75.3 acres3 bedrooms, 4 baths When entrepreneur Sandy Lawrence set out to build a home on the side of a rocky hill ...
A family who left the Bay Area thinks that having an ADU greenhouse on their 140 acres will help them grow fruits and ...
For the AJ’s natural materials-themed issue, Rob Wilson and Fran Williams look at five projects currently on site or recently ...
They primarily use rammed earth—which, for the unfamiliar, is exactly what it sounds like: tightly compacted soils, sometimes ...
The first image that comes to the mind of many when you talk about rammed earth houses is the grass-thatched mud house synonymous with rural areas. Most people’s reaction is that there is no way ...
"Compared with bare rammed earth, the cyanobacteria, moss and lichen biocrust-covered sections of the Great Wall exhibited reduced porosity, water-holding capacity, erodibility and salinity by up ...
The material for a rammed earth wall is laid down in layers, with each layer being compressed before material is added on top ...
When entrepreneur Sandy Lawrence set out to build a home on the side of a rocky hill overlooking Napa Valley, she envisioned something that looked like it was growing out of the landscape. So she ...