Residential

  • Bribie Island House

    Built in 2002 by an engineer, this home was unusual in its canal estate placement at the time. Designed using passive solar design principles and to be energy conscious, it was also energy producing, generating wind as well as solar power. The rammed earth provided thermal mass, and the clerestorey windows allowed sunlight to heat the central walls at appropriate times of the year, but the design excluded it at other times (using the angle of the sun).  Electric blinds shaded the large glass windows when necessary, and a vergola opening roof sheltered the central courtyard between the two wings of the house.

  • Subtropical rammed earth home with big stacking doors to deck.

    Maleny House

    There is a wire brushed finish on this rammed earth 'mountain cottage' style house, built in 2003. The wire brushing removes form work lines and leaves a textured finish.

  • Canal estate rammed earth

    Pelican Waters residence, Sunshine Coast, Queensland

    A far-from-standard 3 bedroom family home including an upper storey on one side with a parents retreat.  Rammed earth forms all the external and many of the internal, garage and garden walls.  The owners say, “As far as building products go, rammed earth is for us… The eco credentials of rammed earth are of the highest levels, as is evident […]

  • rammed earth home in bush setting

    Flaxton House

    Rammed Earth Construction

  • Rammed earth Ecohouse, Crystal Waters, Queensland

    Crystal Waters Eco House

    Built in 1993, this house in Crystal Waters Ecovillage, near Conondale, uses wire brushed rammed earth as the primary building material. Recycled windows and doors were sourced from salvage yards. Weatherboards and hardwood floor boards are reject-grade hardwood.

  • Rammed earth alcoves, garden wall. Sunshine coast, Queensland.

    Mooloolah House

    Rammed Earth Construction

  • Rammed earth family home, Samford valley, Queensland

    Samford Valley House, SE Queensland

    Family home in the Samford valley, west of Brisbane.  Built in the early 1990s.

  • Rammed earth home, Buderim, Sunshine Coast, Queensland

    Buderim House

    Rammed Earth Construction

  • rammed earth curved front home

    Eudlo House

    Rammed Earth Construction

  • Rammed earth cottage, Maleny

    Maleny Cottage, Sunshine Coast, Qld

    A two bedroom cottage built for a retired couple near Maleny. The owners wanted a solar passive design with strong ecological design criteria.  The building designer, Chris Rew, designed the building well, with the owners reporting that the house works extremely well all year round.

  • Rammed earth and timber eco cottage

    Crystal Waters House

    Rammed Earth Construction

  • Buderim rammed earth

    Buderim Georgian/Colonial style home

    The owner of this colonial style home wanted a rammed earth home to suit her early colonial Australian furniture. She designed the home to fit it.  The wire-brush finish to the rammed earth obscured the formwork lines. Built in 1994, it continues to look good in 2017.