Earth structure
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Earth structure can refer to:
In architecture:
- Earth sheltering - the architectural practice of using earth for external thermal mass against building walls
- Rammed earth - also known as Pisé de Terre, a technique for compressing dampened earth to form walls
- Earthbag construction - sacks filled with earth and other inorganic material and stacked to form walls
- Earthship - a type of dwelling built using recycled tires rammed with earth
- Adobe - earth mixed with organic material such as straw and used as a building material
- Mudbrick - a form of adobe shaped into bricks
- Cob (material) - a mud-and-straw based building material similar to adobe
- Hakka architecture – a defensive rammed earth building style unique to the Hakka people
- Fujian Tulou (also Tulou) - a type of Hakka dwelling common to Fujian province in China
In engineering:
- Earthworks (engineering) - engineering works created through the moving of massive quantities of soil or unformed stone. Types of engineering earthworks can include:
- Levees - natural or artificial embankments or dikes
- Embankments - natural or artificial slopes
- Dikes - artificial earthen walls, constructed for defence or as a boundary
- Dams - barriers across flowing water that obstruct, direct or retard the flow, often creating a reservoir, lake or impoundment
- Embankment dam - a dam made of mounded earth and rock
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