Various Types of Earth Buildings

Abstract

Earth architecture is a vernacular architecture. Earth architecture is included various types of buildings. This paper is described various types of earth buildings in the world. Rammed earth buildings, Cob, Adobe, Wattle and Daub, Poured earth are various types of earth buildings. The paper has shown the significant of earth buildings and earth architecture in vernacular architecture. Earth Architecture is a study devoted to the architectural uses of earth in shaping the environment of humankind, a subject closely related to human ecology. Earth Architecture includes contemporary as well as historical and vernacular examples drawn from many cultures and periods. Structural built of earth presently house an estimated 1.5 billion people about 30 percent of the world's population (Keefe 2005). Archaeologists have found evidence of mud brick buildings constructed as early as ten thousand years ago in the Middle East and North Africa, where impressive buildings up to ten stories high have been recorded in an unbroken architectural tradition that continuous today.