It is worth noting when rammed earth gets mentioned in major newspapers, as just happened in the Australian Financial Review. And it well deserved recognition for Luigi Roselli‘s great wall of WA (constructed by Murchison Rammed Earth) described as “one of the most compelling residential projects of our times – a series of humble bungalows that has taken the world by dust storm.”
It was great to see the thermal approach to the climatic challenges of WA win so much recognition, with the Arch Daily, an architectural journal award Luigi Roselli the 2016 Building of the Year. The online poll of 55,000 users of the site – “pegs Rosselli alongside the likes of Pritzker Prize laureates Renzo Piano and Herzog & de Meuron.”
“Compacted from soil sourced in NSW, the rammed-earth walls of the $450-a-head eatery were intended to give the Noma dining room “a sense of solidity, of permanence”, says Foolscap principal Adele Winteridge. The walls also efficiently evoked the terroir that Danish chef Rene Redzepi famously scours for native ingredients.”
The Financial Review notes “as one of the world’s most sustainable building techniques, it speaks eloquently to the zeitgeist.”
Read the full article here.
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