Rammed Earth : You won’t Believe How They Build This!

Living in clay building is sweet. Temperature is always sweet

People have been making dirt homes for thousands of years. It's a great eco friendly building material, and while it may have its shortcomings in rainy environments through modification it can be made more resilient.

This is not rammed earth since they add cement to the mix, this is called stabilized rammed earth which is a completely different material in the end

increible! felicidades por el hermoso esfuerzo!.

Will these walls wick moisture if it rains alot? Would sealing them affect the thermal transfer properties?

That wall ain’t 2ft thick. 14” thick maximum I reckon.

How much would that project cost, I wonder?

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Thumbs up for the dog supervising….

Must you guys use a Toyota to get around?????

Great source of alternative building properties and building approach. What is NOT great is the confounded use of the word,"off-of". There is no such word. The "of" is redundant. It should be just plain old brick, "off". Basta.

I’m having butterflies each time they reveal something😂😂 Man I can’t wait to finish college to work on one of these or even build one of my own!!

3 years ago what is this joe Rogans complex

Marfa can have periods of very high winds

Matt never heared of climate change. But Maybe he just hates children

Beautiful build! Walls 2 ft thick???? Put a tape on it.
Thumbs up!

They have been building this in Oz for the last 50 years. You need to check some sites on how this is done……. Properly! No seams visible. Also rammed sand is done here and that looks fantastic.

Nice. We want to build one here in the Ozarks

Hey Matt you should take a look at some homesteads in cochise county AZ... especially Jay who is a realtor (sorry don't know his last name) but his hyper Adobe house is still in the works but it's amazing

Matt, do you know of any builders in the Austin area that have already completed R.E. home projects? All inspired owner-builders desiring R.E. may have trouble getting financed. In fact the appraiser for one of the green owner-builder brokers I'm using says it will be hard to prove "market acceptance" and comps.

I'm trying to find any Texas builders that have had their projects financed and appraised. If this is ever to get off the ground for us regular folk, then it must gain momentum and the only way I know to do this is to find every example in order for the appraiser to make a case.

Can you provide any guidance, referrals? I'm attempting to build south of New Braunfels, TX.

Love your videos by the way!

Those buildings look like a high security prison with those tiny little windows and one slope roof.

This is actually very beautiful. If the technique was professionally organized into a system of forms along with all the supporting tools and materials it looks like a very good tool to reduce the housing crisis. I love it. Are there sytems integrated that could provide core packages of everything but the furnishings… much easier to do from the slab, to the interior core and then theexterior walls and finishing after the roof is on. Very neat!!

This would be a great building method for tropical countries. I wonder how it would withstand hurricanes and floods

Has anyone preformed a "Blower Door Test" on this type of home? Just wondering.

why is that lintel just raw steel no coating....

I'll bet my hat there is not 24inches in that wall. More like 20 inches. Maybe 22 but I doubt it. Just saying

This would work so well in the desert areas of Australia, which is about 80% of the country. Australia is around the same size as the U.S. in total.

You should look into Aerated Autoclaved Concrete Block building. I would love to get your take on it.

Would this work in Michigan and with 1 ft wide wall? What would be the difference in heat loss?

Hi! It looks to me as if they are shoveling dry dirt/mix down into the forms. I've seen the mix poured in as almost a slurry. Can you tell me if it was indeed dry?

Please drop the idea of adding that obnoxious, head banging noise opening any more of your otherwise great videos….. IT’S HORRIBLE ☹

the video just started but I'm guessing this is SUPER EXSPENSIVE!
The forms alone are enough wood to build a building. Crazy!

Which house would be better 3 D concrete printed house or earth house? Can anyone answer?

I just turned 41 I have never flown in my life. I'm so terrified to fly but if I wasn't I would get my license to fly. I just cant bring myself to do it. I feel like I don't trust someone to fly me lol. I also rather not fly on a commercial air line the first time I do decide to fly. Maybe I should try to find someone with a plane to see if I could pay them to take me flying. Sorry about the rant I just think owning your own plane is really cool. Also I'm interested in building a earth house and barn on my property in Virginia so I'm researching alot about it. The buildingsin the video are beautiful already and it's not finished yet wow!

Amazing how the walls maintain a consistent temperature. I wonder how the costs compare to traditional ways of building, seems like a rigorous use of equipment.

has this been approved by your city engineering department

its outside Marfa!?? that's perfect

This looks more expensive than any other kind of construction.

The added music is deafening loud, not everyone can constantly adjust volume when randomly assaulted by the bad video editor!

This technique would be EXCELLENT for building above ground Fallout Shelters, it takes 3 feet of dirt. Not sure how to get 3 feet of dirt supported with overhangs..

Re crushed granite , I think its a good plaN to do a sump and controlled air exchanges for RADON mitigation.

Love the building, except how expensive machinery intensive it seems.
Cheers!

Bondo IS a house product, it was invented I think after WWII for housing use. Fillers for dents and such wasnt the intention but people found more uses for it as we went along.

Cool to watch the diferent technics, materials

So if issues arise wit the snake nest of conduit features, will it be easy to do repairs?

Nice work!
In the bay area, I worked at a job in Atherton. New police station, city council and library.. the library has 4 or 5 large walls of 'Rammed Earth'. They said it cost 2 to 3 million dollars to make them 🤯

Awesome.

Is it workable in rainy regions..
Does soil washout in rainy Water ??

Where is OSHA when you need them? Do you see the fall hazards these workers are facing? Really. Focus more on the quality of a dirt wall than the well-being of another fellow human?

How to build in a humid climate and where there is snow?

Love this, Incredible stuff guys