<\/a>Beautiful strata of natural earthen colours in rammed earth wall<\/p><\/div>\n
Often cement or hydrated lime is added to improve durability, but many successful structures have been\u00a0built using suitable soils without such additives. A sandy crumbly soil (with a clay content around 15-30%) is best, as it is easily worked and has minimal shrinkage.<\/p>\n
The shuttering is best designed so that whole wall panels can be built in one go, thus eliminating joints within panels as much as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Rammed earth (or pise) is an ancient technique that has been dated back to at least 7000 BC in Pakistan. It has been used in many structures around the world, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthbuilding.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthbuilding.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthbuilding.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthbuilding.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthbuilding.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthbuilding.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":179,"href":"https:\/\/www.earthbuilding.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.earthbuilding.org.nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}