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Earthbag Construction — Superadobe Domes
Iranian-American (Nader Khalili / Cal-Earth Institute)
Continuous earth-filled polypropylene tubes coiled into self-supporting domes, developed by architect Nader Khalili for refugee shelter and permanent …
Cob Building — Earth, Sand, and Straw Construction
English West Country (Devon, Cornwall, Somerset), Welsh, Irish, and structurally similar techniques across the Middle East, North Africa, and the Americas
Monolithic earthen construction using clay-rich subsoil mixed with sand and straw — a building technology that has produced …
Rammed Earth Walls — Pisé de Terre
Global (Provence, North Africa, China, Australia)
Subsoil mixed with a small amount of stabilizer, compacted in movable formwork in lifts of a few inches …
Trullo Construction — Dry-Stone Conical Roofs of Apulia
Apulian Italian (Itria Valley, southern Italy)
Round single-room dwellings with corbelled limestone domes built without mortar in the dry stone tradition of southern Italy.
Sod Roofs — Norwegian Torvtak and Icelandic Turf Houses
Scandinavian and North Atlantic Vernacular Building
Roofs built with two layers of birch bark waterproofing covered with stripped grass turf — the Norwegian torvtak …
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