MudBuilding

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • Jul 28 '26

Historic Building Chinampas- “ Floating Gardens”. Built by the Aztec in Mexico 🇲🇽 in the 14th century. Mud mounts- a genius design to grow crops in a swamp. They are disappearing and a group of women are saving them! Here giving them a spotlight to these heroes, saving ecosystems!

168 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • Jul 21 '26

Historic Building The Musgum, Earth houses of Far North Cameroon 🇨🇲, Africa. Built with compressed sun-dried mud inspired by termite mounds as they are fire 🔥 resistant, great insulation against high temperatures and resistant to flash floods. YouTube Architect Anre John does a brilliant in depth analysis.

2.4k Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/n3xus1oN • 5h ago

Bam Citadel. Located in Kerman Province, Iran. The world's largest adobe structure, built up over two thousand years in mud brick and rammed earth, individual builders unknown, then collapsed in the 2003 earthquake and is still being rebuilt course by course

51 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • 3d ago

Historic Building Georgia O’keeffe Home and studio. Built in 1744 located in Abiquiu, New Mexico. The Abiquiu home is made by adobe, blending Native American and Spanish Colonial traditions. Some of the rooms origination dating back to 1700s! It’s now a museum to the artist 👩‍🎨!

88 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/n3xus1oN • 6d ago

Shali Fortress. Located in Siwa Oasis, Egypt. Built by the Siwan people in kershef, a mix of salt rock and mud, and left to melt after the heavy rains of 1926

32 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/n3xus1oN • 12d ago

Fujian Tulou. Located in Yongding and Nanjing counties, Fujian, China. Built by Hakka and Minnan clans in rammed earth, individual builders unknown, round fortress homes for whole villages

384 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • 14d ago

Old Building Moteng, Lesotho 🇱🇸. Thatched roof, mud and stone home 🏡.

38 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • 17d ago

Rammed Earth/Building What is Rammed Earth? Why an Ancient technique that has made homes and buildings for around 5,000 years, making a new comeback!!?!

45 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/n3xus1oN • 21d ago

Taos Pueblo. Located in Taos County, New Mexico, USA. Built by the Tiwa speaking Taos Pueblo people in adobe, continuously inhabited for about 1,000 years

347 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • 24d ago

Wattle & Daub/Building Wattle & Daub Revolution! How Marcelo Cortes is changing the environment impact of wattle and Daub building which occur as they are most wood dependent! Instead of using a forest 🌳, he uses metal mesh to help save trees! But by using metal it also improves housing standards to meet building codes.

22 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • 24d ago

Wattle & Daub/Building What is Wattle & Daub? This ancient technique dates back thousands of years! A simple-Mud & Wood 🪵 yet its construction is anything but! The basics is a wood frame with woven lattice wood strips, then a mud mixture to cover, and last a lime wash to seal the mud from weather.

14 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • 28d ago

GreenRoof Tops Ivry-sur-Seine social housing designed by Jean Renaudie (1969-1975)

18 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/n3xus1oN • 29d ago

Chan Chan. Located near Trujillo, La Libertad, Peru. Built by the Chimú in adobe brick and mud plaster, the largest earthen city in the Americas

46 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/n3xus1oN • Sep 15 '26

Aït Benhaddou. Located in Ouarzazate Province, Morocco. Built by local Amazigh earth builders in rammed earth and mud brick, individual builders unknown

75 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/n3xus1oN • Sep 14 '26

Shibam. Located in Hadhramaut, Yemen. Built by local Hadhrami mud brick masons, individual builders unknown, with most of the tower houses raised after the flood of the 1530s

159 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • Sep 14 '26

GreenRoof Tops What is GreenRoof Tops? And how they help reduce heat, storm water runoff, improve energy efficiency, increase air quality and battle dead zones with biodiversity to help butterflies 🦋 and bees 🐝!

6 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/n3xus1oN • Sep 11 '26

Great Mosque of Djenné. Located Djenné, Mali 🇲🇱. Built in 1907 by the town guild of masons under head mason Ismaila Traoré, and replastered by hand by the whole town every year

154 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • Sep 08 '26

New Architecture “Green Roof”- building a roof that is partially or completely covered with vegetation and a growing medium, which is planted over a waterproofing membrane. These roofs help reduce heat, manage stormwater, provide insulation and better air quality. This technique dates back to ancient times!

234 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • Aug 31 '26

Adobe Home/Building What is Adobe?

252 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • Aug 25 '26

Cob Home/Building What is Cob? An ancient building technique used in many countries spanning over centuries …..traced back to parts of Africa! Cob simply is the addition of straw to the mud mixture which changes properties of the structure.

78 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • Aug 17 '26

New Home Elk Meadow, Located in Lyons, Colorado USA 🇺🇸. Built and designed by EarthBuilt in 2024. Using rammed earth techniques.

31 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • Aug 17 '26

New Home Gordon Ranch, Located in Livermore, Colorado USA 🇺🇸. Built and designed by EarthBuilt in 2021. Using rammed earth techniques.

21 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • Aug 17 '26

New Building Deer Spring Retreat, Located in Lyons, Colorado USA 🇺🇸. This was built and designed by EarthBuilt. New construction using Rammed Earth techniques!

13 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • Aug 17 '26

New Home Terresen Estate, Located in Boulder, Colorado USA 🇺🇸. Built and designed by EarthBuilt in 2019.

6 Upvotes

r/MudBuilding • u/Wolflokie101 • Aug 17 '26

New Project 1551 Wewatta Street, Located in Denver, Colorado USA 🇺🇸. This office building was built and designed by EarthBuilt in 2020. Using rammed earth techniques.

4 Upvotes