Nature Made: Artisan Brandon Gore educates us on the art form, aesthetic, and practice of rammed earth construction
Looking around your neighborhood, it may be hard to imagine homes without brick, siding, or wood-clad facades. After all, these have become the norm in residential building. However, from the dawn of time humans have been making their homes from readily available materials—namely, the earth. A modern iteration of this practice is called rammed earth construction, a concept that caught the attention of Northwest Arkansas native Brandon Gore decades before he would eventually build his own rammed earth home in Eureka Springs.
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