View image in fullscreen Inside the Rammed Earth House in Wiltshire. Photograph: Jim Stephenson“Climate change makes it even more important that rammed earth is framed as a mainstream material,” says Emaad Damda, a lead architect at Tuckey Design Studio, which worked on the Rammed Earth House. Although there is the carbon cost of importing rammed earth blocks, the benefits were still greater than relying on regular bricks, says Moll. This, along with financial limits, prevented him from developing the rammed earth mixture with local soil. The quality of [rammed earth] is clear.”Far from being confined to rural environments, Boltshauser’s studio has been involved in bringing rammed earth to the urban landscape.

Source: The Guardian February 05, 2026 17:31 UTC