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Land is one of the oldest building materials in the history of humanity. Persian civilizations, Assyrian, Egyptian and Babylonian used it in abundance, and the examples that have survived show that the ancients did not hesitate to use it in works sometimes enormous :

Ctesiphon Arch in Iraq and to entrust their most valuable assets for all eternity

Saggar Pyramids, Egypt (built during the First Dynasty).

Less known are the ruins of Chan Chan in Peru, the largest pre-Columbian city in South America: it covered an area of \u200b\u200bfourteen square miles.

Soil architecture is not only an archaeological curiosity, keep in mind that today more than a third of world population living in buildings with soil. This material is still dominant in most of Africa, the Middle East and Latin America. It is also a form of vernacular habitat in China and India. In Europe, although almost forgotten now, the buildings with land remain part of the everyday landscape in Eastern Europe, and also in Britain, Spain and France.

The region of New Mexico Arizona and Southern California in the United States is experiencing a growing trend of construction in adobe. This architecture inherited from the Indian and English traditions have a unique regional character in the U.S..

The second point of interest in building with earth is caused by a growing rise in the cost of energy, which impacts on products such as cement and baked bricks. Recent analysis of the cost "green" procedures, by involving the "social cost" show that the use of less expensive construction materials market of cement-bonded-no can be long term, the most relevant. Within this land presents an obvious ecological interest.

The technique of building with earth is now safe enough to compete with traditional materials, heir to a popular tradition, has the advantages of simple technology. While demand little investment in materials, and is easily adaptable.