When a growing family needed extra living space, they turned to Australian design studio Steffen Welsch Architects to create an eco-friendly extension for their California Bungalow home. For the main construction material, the architects used rammed earth—a material with low embodied energy and high thermal mass—and created an arced extension that curves to capture warmth and light from the sun. Passive solar principles also largely dictated all parts of the design process, from the zoning and...
from Inhabitat - Green Design, Innovation, Architecture, Green Building https://inhabitat.com/rammed-earth-addition-brings-light-and-energy-savings-to-a-melbourne-home
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