Castile・Rammed Earth and Adobe: Where There is No Stone

An inland house made of earth. The walls are rammed earth or sun-dried adobe bricks, with a thin layer of mud mixed with straw on the surface, in colors ranging from ocher yellow to grayish brown of the local soil. The corners of the walls and the edges of doors and windows are reinforced with bricks or stones, revealing different materials. The roof is a gently sloped barrel tile roof, with deep eaves protecting the walls from rain. The walls show traces of rain erosion and patched color blocks.
Avoid: using cement mortar plaster, making the walls flat and uniform, neglecting the reinforcement of corners and openings, making the eaves too shallow to protect the earth walls.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一棟土造的內陸房子。牆是夯土或曬乾的土坯磚,表面抹著薄薄一層混了稻草的泥,顏色是當地土壤的赭黃到灰褐;牆角與門窗的邊緣用磚或石加強,露出不同的材料。屋頂是低緩的筒瓦,出簷保護牆面不被雨沖。牆面有雨水沖刷的痕跡與修補過的色塊。避免:使用水泥砂漿抹面、把牆面做得平整均勻、忽略牆角與開口的加強做法、讓出簷太淺不足以保護土牆。