rammed earth
pisé loan-word

The idea was to create three rammed earth sculptures in the front of the school to bring art, culture, and community together.

It is probably the largest rammed earth wall in Australia.

Deep red local gravel was used to form the rammed earth walls.

They first had a small structure built of rammed earth, made by the Indian workers in their traditional style.

Our eight single room rammed earth cabins each sleep up to four people.

How well does rammed earth hold up in a rainy climate?

Consulting services to other building professionals interested in rammed earth.

As in the smithy, the floor here was only of rammed earth.

This core was considerably harder than simply using rammed earth.

Structures from this period were usually made of wood or rammed earth and have not survived.

The rammed earth was then coated with dark brown (nearly black) clay.

The altar has three levels, the highest being a platform of rammed earth.

The use of rammed earth is growing in popularity as a sustainable building method.

The scientists applied pressure to samples of rammed earth in the laboratory.

And unlike rammed earth construction, no energy is required to compact the soil.

The resort's architectural design follows a construction based on rammed earth.

Like strawbale, rammed earth is an ancient method of building.

The population expanded dramatically, and many settlements had rammed earth walls.

Old maps show that there were close to twenty gates in this rammed earth wall.

Rammed earth tires can weigh up to 300 pounds so they are typically made in place.

They lived first in a house built of rammed earth with timber out-buildings.

It was built using rammed earth dug up as the foundations were laid, nearly 20 years ago.

Rammed Earth is a very abundant material that can be used in place of concrete and brick.

A rammed earth wall is built by placing damp soil in a temporary form.

The structure is thus similar to a rammed earth structure, and may be extremely strong.

He followed the pisé de terre system, rammed earth method of construction, in building the plant.

Permanent settlement remains indicate pisé walls and stone foundations.

Many quarters of the city consisted entirely of buildings constructed from pisé.

The Berbers are known for their use of earth or mud brick called pisé (French).

To be really stable, walls made of pisé needed a slight overhang, that is, the top had to be narrower than the base.

The flours were of pisé.

It is apparently built of pisé mud (i.e. mud mixed with straw and puddled).

The sole noteworthy monument is the nearly five miles of beautiful pisé, or rammed-earth, ramparts wrapping the medina.

Many of the massive pisé buildings had defensive functions as main trading posts and ports or guard walls against pirates and rivals.

"During heavy rains, I've seen some of the old pisé buildings collapse like sand castles," O'Byrne says.

Unlike cob, which is meant to be supported by a wooden trellis, pisé or rough masonry made of raw clay needs only piles for support (Note).

Sidi Chamharouch, set beside a waterfall, is a cluster of pisé homes, above which towers the shrine: a huge white-painted rock with a flag on top.

A National Historic Landmark, the plantation is noted as the largest assemblage of high-style pisé (rammed earth) structures in the United States.

Since pisé is a water- permeable material, the foundation is required to be rebuilt regularly; however, the repeating use of forms, materials and patterns resulted as Morocco's distinctive architecture.

They were renovated by the Saadi dynasty and then enlarged during the reign of Moulay Abderrahmane in the 19th century, when they were enclosed with pisé walls.

The mission headquarters were established in Kororareka (later called Russell) where the Marists constructed a building (now called Pompallier) in pisé and set up a printing press.

The Ursuline campus is one of the earliest surviving examples of early French-influenced architecture in South Texas and includes a rare two-story "pisé de terre" (rammed earth) building.

Alain Côté, Parks Canada The walls of the dwellings were made of raw clay (pisé) and erected on raw-clay foundations set into narrow trenches that had been dug right into the ground.

Clay was used to make pisé and cob. Pisé is usually made with raw clay to which nothing has been added, whereas vegetable or animal matter is added to cob.

The stunning arched bridges are in full view of the property's wysteria covered terrace, and the house has original features such as pisé stone floors, ornate cornices and sweeping staircases, plus antique pictures, furnishings and ornaments.

Since entrances were not screened and materials were poor - many of them one brick thick or built in pisé, a version of mud - they were cold and cheerless, with rain actually driving in through the walls.

In 2004 Jacqueline bought a derelict house, knocked it down and, with the help of locals - who adopted her as one of their own - built a traditional Berber house of pisé (beaten earth), wood and stone.

As a rule, the foundation walls of the buildings in Shir are built of limestone, which occurs naturally in this region, while the few remains of the brick walls are generally made of clay or rammed earth (pisé).

Edmund purchased one, or two, sections at Pine Forest in Barton Vale, now known as Enfield, and a thatched pine house, or pisé and brick house, was built there for the family, who moved there in 1839.

The trampling and ramming technique for consolidating earthworks was used in fortifications and there is a comparable, outmoded form of wall construction technique, used in such work and known as pisé, a word derived not from trampling but from ramming or tamping.