An earth block, left, sits unsinged next to a burning block of wood after both were blasted by a 3,400 F blowtorch. UC Davis Professor Michele Barbato and team are investigating the wildfire-resilient ...
Earth-based building materials have long offered a sustainable alternative to conventional construction, drawing on locally available resources such as clay, sand, and natural fibres. Contemporary ...
Lola Ben-Alon experiments with digital earth-fiber basket weaving at GSAPP. (Courtesy GSAPP Natural Materials Lab/Omer Mohamed Gorashi) “I don’t have any expectations that we will be building ...