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Amphitheatre walls @ UBC – Building Wall 2

December 17, 2009 by admin

We are now onto building the second rammed earth wall in the UBC botanical garden. This wall is 55 feet long, curved and fades into the grade. Thanks to Katie who works at the garden for providing a few of the pictures scattered through our posts on the amphitheatre.

 

 

Footing-wall

The footing for wall 2 is ready. The round circle to the right is where the fountain will be going.

 

 

walers

Putting up the walers.

 

 

plywood-wall-forming

Adding sheets of plywood to the walers.

 

 

wall-formed

1 side of the forms is now up and defining the shape of the site now.

 

 

rain-tarps

Not every day can be sunny so here we are putting up tarps in the rain.

 

 

Rudy-sunny

Rudy is a happy man now that the sun is back.

 

 

Delivering-material-hill

Delivering material up the hill. We used a bobcat with tracks since we had a muddy climb to deal with.

 

 

quality-control-rebar

Quality control on the rebar placement.

 

 

pnuematic-ramming-earth

The pneumatic ramming in dramatic fashion, operated by Rama.

 

 

curved-rammed-earth-wall-top

Ramming is complete. A curved wall always looks great from the top.

 

 

curved-wall-rammed-earth-layers

Beautiful layers…we love these walls.

 

 

wall-fountain

Wall 2 from a distance, it will eventually have a fountain if front of it.

 

 

wall-texture-ubc-rammed-earth

We are totally delighted with the wall texture and layering. Each line you see is a lift layer that has been compressed.

 

 

walls-tarped

The walls are tarped and this part of the project is done.  Come back to see the finished pictures in the spring when the flowers are blooming and the whole site is looking magnificent.

Amphitheatre walls @ UBC – Building Wall 1

December 17, 2009 by admin

 

Mixing-rammed-earth

Mixing and more mixing, filling up those forms takes a lot of material.

 

 

shoveling

Shoveling into the forms.

 

 

more-shoveling

More shoveling. We shoveled a lot on this wall, over 117,000 pounds of rammed earth mix!

 

 

pneumatic-tamper

Rudy working the pneumatic tamper.

 

 

working-rammed-earth

Working late to finish the cap.

 

 

Removing-rammed-earth-forms

Removing the forms and exposing the beautiful rammed earth!

 

 

rammed-earth-ubc

Clifton with his stylish hat, makes a nice shadow on the wall.

 

 

wall-ubc

Tree shadows on the wall.  Note the backdrop, the botanical garden is such a nice environment to work in.

 

 

spraying-rammed-earth-wall

Spraying the wall lightly to slow the curing. The slower the curing, the higher the strength of the rammed earth.

 

 

curved-rammed-earth-wall-ubc

A great angle to show the extent of the curve and slope. The cap has been troweled to look more organic and slope slightly to the outside of the amphitheatre.

 

 

Tall-end-wall-ubc

The tall end of the wall reaches 8.5 feet in height.

 

 

curved-rammed-earth-wall

A great view from the back of the wall that shows the slope. The forms for the concrete seating is in the background.

Rammed Earth Building Workshops – 2010

December 6, 2009 by admin

Learn to build rammed earth walls for your own home, yard or as a professional career. We have set most of our course dates for 2010. We offer the following courses, click on these underlined links  below for more details.

Insulated Rammed Earth Building – workshop – and apprenticeship

Rammed Earth Wall Building for Landscaping Projects – workshop

Gary’s Garage – 3-D model

March 22, 2009 by admin

This is the 3-D model for Gary’s rammed earth garage on Salt Spring Island, B.C. This is building is not insulated so we decided to use a 1′ wall thickness on this project. The Garage doors are slanted in for both aesthetic and practical site constraints. You will notice as the pictures come in of the completed project that there has been a deviation from the original design but this was the original intention when we started.

 

 

rammed-earth-garage

The view of the garage from the south.

 

 

rammed-earth-garage-model

A perspective view from the south east, those are glass block windows on the side for those who are wondering.

Building the Chemainus Greenhouse Wall

March 11, 2009 by admin

We built the Chemainus greenhouse wall on Vancouver Island, B.C. just outside Duncan.  This project was a collaboration with Scott and Carla, the owners.

 

 

nailing-footing

Nailing a board to the footing that will hold the forms in place.

 

 

rammed-earth-forms

Nailing the strongback to a whaler. For these rammed earth forms we used materials that Scott already had, which meant smaller whalers so we added an extra strongback because of the length of the wall.

 

 

rammed-earth-mix

Scott turning the rammed earth mix with his old tractor.

 

 

shoveling

The inaugural shovels into the forms.

 

 

inside-wall

Working inside the 1 foot wide form.

 

 

ramming-earth

Scott ramming some earth.

 

 

top-wall

Nearing the top of the wall.

 

 

placing-stones

Placing stones of marble and granite.

 

 

marcelle-ramming-earth

Marcelle ramming earth.

 

 

removing-rammed-earth-forms

Removing the forms the next morning.

 

 

details-wall

Carla details the wall to help to expose the beautiful stones and give the wall some texture in key areas.

 

 

rammed-earth-wall-layers

Loving those rammed earth wall layers!

 

 

rammed-earth-wall

Scott and Clifton in front of their wall.

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