THINK Earth! Building with excavation material

Earth is an undervalued building material. Prof. Dr. Guillaume Habert and Sasha Cisar blog at the Future Blog on building with dirt in relation to the exhibition THINK Earth! that takes place at the main hall of ETH Zürich between October 30th and November 5th.

Article on building with dirt on the Future Blog: LINK

Earth heap
Earth as a building material: more versatile than you might think. (Image: Chair for Sustainable Construction / ETH Zurich)

Think Earth! – building with earth today

THINK Earth!

The exhibition will show the potential of excavated material in construction. It opens at 5.30 p.m. on 30 October 2017 in room HG E 3. The exhibition will display projects which have received the TERRA Award, the prize for contemporary earthen architecture. There will be two discussions tackling the themes of “Earth and Health” (on 1 November, in German) and “Earth and Technology” (on 3 November, in English), both at 5.30 p.m. in the Semper Aula.

You can find more information about the exhibition and view the programme here.

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