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Ayal Bryant from Barro Vivo CR told Inhabitat because they live in a relatively hot and dry climate, where they receive about 3 months of rain and the rest of the year is pretty much dry, they wanted to build a house that...

Chiangmai Life Construction in northern Thailand designs and builds modern, organic architecture using mainly earth and bamboo, but also concrete for foundations, recycled hardwood, and whatever else works...

Just four years before the 1979 Islamic revolution in Iran, Nader Khalili abandoned his career building fancy high rises and other conventional structures and set off into the desert of Iran on a motorbike to learn more about...

Tasked with this challenging adaptive reuse project, Assembly Architects was careful to minimize their environmental impact by using the earth excavated in the marquee's walls and the pathway leading to it...

A UNESCO World Heritage Site located where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers meet, far north near the borders of Botswana and Zimbabwe, it was once home to one of South Africa's earliest trading communities that thrived on gold...

Read the rest of The Solar-Powered Groundhouse in Brittany is a Designer Earth-Rammed Home Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: Brittany, clean tech, compost toilet, Daylighting, earth construction,...

Read the rest of Rammed Earth and Stone Buildings Make Up Oaxaca School of Plastic Arts Permalink | Add to del.icio.us | digg Post tags: earth construction, eco design, green design, low-maintenance indigenous flora,...