Architects Keith Zawistowski and Marie Richard, alumni of Rural Studio, recently built two rammed earth walls as a land art installation in the New Mexico desert. For this project, they collaborated with CRATerre to reaserch traditional earth building techniques and developed a slip form system for rammed earth, which eliminated form tie holes and can be handled by only two people. Using this system and earth mined from the site they constructed 220 foot long walls.
ARC
ARC Scottland (Architectural, Research or Conservation) has an archive of research reports on earth architecture available for download in .pdf format.
AREA Photo Essays
Photo Essays from the AREA Summer Research+Build workshop have been posted to the AREA 2004 website. visit at: www.areainstitute.org