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]]> http://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13207 Fri, 02 Feb 2018 09:00:00 -0500 https://www.architecturalrecord.com/articles/13207-continuing-education-rammed-earth DL-Atelier conceived the San Bao Peng Art Museum near Jingdezheng, China, as a 300-foot-long by 27-foot-wide compound defined by rammed-earth perimeter walls. Galleries are enclosed within titanium-zinc-clad volumes. Photo © Haiting Sun DL-Atelier conceived the San Bao Peng Art Museum near Jingdezheng, China, as a 300-foot-long by 27-foot-wide compound defined by rammed-earth perimeter walls. Galleries are enclosed within titanium-zinc-clad volumes. Photo © Haiting Sun Instead of plywood sheet forms, the museum’s walls were poured within horizontally oriented boards to give added texture to the rammed earth’s surface. Photo courtesy DL-Atelier Image courtesy DL-Atelier Spring Ranch, near Hollister, California, has hefty rammed-earth walls as thick as 24 inches. Photo © Joe Fletcher In conjunction with the concrete floors' radiant heating and cooling, the thermal mass provided by the rammed-earth walls helps maintain comfortable indoor temperatures. Photo © Joe Fletcher Image courtesy Feldman Architecture SmithGroupJJR envisioned a 20-foot-wide, 19-foot-tall rammed-earth wall as the focal point of a Santa Clara, California, office building. The 10-ton element is made up of four segments fabricated off-site in Napa. Photo © Michael David Rose Photography, courtesy SmithGroup JJR