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Read the rest of Melbourne’s St. Alfred’s Church Boasts Highly Sophisticated Passive Heating and Cooling Systems

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Read the rest of RTA Studio’s Carbon-Neutral C3 House is New Zealand’s First Win at World Architecture Festival

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Read the rest of Jones Studios’ Sculptural Lacey Residence is a Rammed Earth Home in the Arizona Desert

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Read the rest of Rudanko & Kankkunen Complete Rammed Earth Ringa Mountain Farm Pavilion in Shangri-la, Tibet

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Read the rest of Self-Sustaining HOUS.E+ is a Rammed Earth Home of the Future in Vancouver

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San Francisco-based Feldman Architecture creates beautiful and sustainable modern homes using a palette of durable materials like concrete, stone, natural wood, and powder-coated steel. One of the current projects in the firm’s resume of homes is the Walnut Farms Retreat located in the Central Valley of California near the San Andres Fault. Like many of its predecessors, the Walnut Farms Retreat is slated to be certified by the USGBC’s LEED rating system, and as Feldman Architecture’s Principal, Jonathan Feldman, AIA, states, “the client was quick to jump into certification”. The 6649-square-foot project is designed to be carbon neutral with a net-zero solar electrical system, geothermal radiant heating and cooling, a solar hot water system, and rammed earth walls.

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Read the rest of The Caterpillar House is a Modern Rammed Earth Ranch House in California

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Read the rest of Rammed Earth Glenhope House is a Sustainable Vacation Retreat Outside of Melbourne

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Read the rest of Kirribilli House Regulates Temperature With a Rammed Earth Spine

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Read the rest of Off-Grid Home by Design Build Bluff Gives Navajo Mother of Four A New Life

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Read the rest of EcoZa Launches South Africa’s First Carbon Neutral Green Estate

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Read the rest of Off-Grid Rammed Earth House On Navajo Nation Catches The Wind

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Read the rest of Eco Wellness Retreat Lets You Unwind in Beautiful Rammed Earth Guesthouses

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Adjacent to the outstanding LEED Platinum Center for Urban Waters in Tacoma, Washington, sits an exceptional new installation. Designed through a collaboration between artist Robert M Horner and earth builder Bly Windstorm, The Tidal Resonance Chamber is a “lab” created to study the tidal forces that have shaped the space between land and sea. Similar to the Sound Chamber we featured earlier this year, the project is inspires its users to connect the built environment with the natural in an intimate and contemplative way. Made from rammed earth walls set on a concrete foundation, the space not only introduces sustainable construction methods and materials, but it is also able to evoke the mission of the center by reinterpreting the site’s relationship to the neighboring waterway.

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