RAMMED EARTH

(Material investigation; Las Alpujarras, Spain and London, UK; 2000-2001)

The scarcity of construction material and the sensitive environmental equilibrium in the Alpujarras mountainous region in Southern Spain ask for site-specific construction techniques. 

Rammed earth prototypes with diverse types of reinforcement and consistency were developed and proposed as a new local tradition for building with limited means. Its layered nature allows for objects to be cast into it, like traces of memory fossilised into the architecture.