Category Archives: Contemporary Earth Architecture

Two images of the tiled toilet, the house is almost ready for use.

Once the roof is up, we’ve started plastering. Clay, red earth and cement form a fine grain surface on the earth wall: plastering is necessary in order to protect the earth wall that -once dried- has sterted showing some vertical … Continue reading →

Hello everybody, this is the last uptodate received from Frank Appiah Kubi, coordinator at NKA Foundation in Abetenim. The wood structure of the roof is finally up and so are the metal sheets on top.

Rainy season over… we can go on with the roof, and the concrete lenti l is finally up!

presentation TAP

Just one month left before our arrival to Abetenim Village in Ghana ! So take a look at the incredible experience of Wayne Switzer and Karolina Szulc, made in the same village just a couple of years ago: a design … Continue reading →

Nka Foundation invites entries for Mud House Design 2014, an international architecture competition open to recent graduates and students of architecture, design and others from around the world who think earth architecture can be beautiful. The challenge is to design … Continue reading →

  The Plaza de la Paja was one of Madrid’s major marketplaces in mediaeval times. Today, it is a small urban park with an irregular shape, delimited on its four sides by ancient buildings and gently sloping down from the north side towards … Continue reading →