by Tarien Roux | Feb 16, 2024 | Natural building, Portfolio, Residential
At 42m2 this house in Scarborough uses natural building materials to showcase the potential of earth building on the scale of a standard RDP house.
by Peter McIntosh | May 23, 2016 | Guest post, Rammed Earth
Rammed earth construction in South Africa has generally been stigmatised as a substandard and primitive building construction method reserved ‘for the poor’. Yet it is now gaining popularity for community social projects, as well as among wealthier clients. By Mary...
by Peter McIntosh | Feb 15, 2016 | Earth theory, Sustainable building
Choosing the right foundation: How materials, ground type, and sustainability shape your natural building’s stability Foundations for conventional building have, to a large extent, a one size fits all approach regardless of the type of ground you are building on i.e....