Earth is an ancient building material that is still used in many different ways with about half the world's population still living in earth buildings.
But earth building is not a phenomenon only of the Third World. In France, about
15% of the population live in earth walled houses. In some regions of Australia over 20% of the houses are built with walls of unfired earth.

Why Build from earth ?
Costs, eco-friendliness, aesthetics.
Building with earth materials can be a way of helping with sustainable management of the earth's resources.
They can be put in place using simple machinery and human energy.
Earth buildings avoid deforestation and pollution, and can achieve
low energy costs throughout their lifetime - in the initial manufacture and
construction, in their use as homes, and eventually in their recycling
back to the earth.

Earth is more time-consuming than conventional design and construction, but for
those who are providing their own labour, the time involved in earth construction
may be less significant than the money cost of modern materials. Many people also
value earth construction for its aesthetic qualities.

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