Prefabricated and climate-adaptive rammed earth construction
Published 2018-11-13
Rammed earth construction is a thousand year old building technique. This building technique has endured this time – for the most part – without using cement as a supplement to stabilise its material compounds. However to ensure a high quality, even in larger construction and with more quality expectations from all sides – Martin Rauch and our company Lehm Ton Erde have begun to mechanise and automate larger parts of the production process involved in prefabricated earthen construction. Today we produce a large range of prefabricated products – never stabilized and thus retaining all the optimum properties found in building with earth.
Jomo Zeil, MA Arch. BSc. Project Architect, Lehm Ton Erde Baukunst Ltd., Austria
Jomo is an architect with the world's leading firm of unstabilised rammed earth contractors, Lehm Ton Erde (Loam - Clay – Earth) of Austria headed by Martin Rauch. Loam stands for handcraft and technology, Clay for artistic design, Earth for the sustainability of earth construction. Lehm Ton Erde has built major rammed earth constructions in many countries and on several continents over 25 years. They are the undisputed world leaders in prefabricated, factory-made elements made of unstabilised rammed earth. Martin has written several books on his work and many publications reference his outstanding, innovative and often multi storey unstabilised rammed earth work.
All Comments (7)
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Very informative..I wish there were more videos like this!
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Awsome video.Beautifully presented.
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You said the less stabilized (using cement) the better breathing and thermal storing capabilities. What about lime? Does it also crystallizes and take away these? I understand lime is flexible and breath. Thank. Awesome video.
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