Designed by Eliza Blair Architecture, Barwon Dunes House is a two-storey coastal house where blackbutt, rammed earth and stone have been chosen to weather against salt air and wind.
Designed by Tecture, Deans Marsh House is a rammed earth and timber home in rural Victoria, arranged as two pavilions either side of an earthen spine.
Rammed earth walls bring high thermal mass, fire resistance and raw beauty. Here is a complete guide to building with earth.
This calm retail interior features a biocomposite brick made by compacting local soil with spent tea leaves using a traditional rammed-earth technique. Pressed rather than fired, the “tea-earth” material turns waste into a tactile architecture – all with lower embodied carbon and a circular end-of-life.
Could discarded cardboard become the future of sustainable construction? Researchers at RMIT think so, with a breakthrough that fuses waste and earth into strong, reusable walls.
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