ABSTRACT
Taking Berlin: 14 years ago unstabilised rammed earth took Berlin with the Chapel of Reconciliation, the first modern rammed earth building in Germany for 50 years. Rammed earth contractor Martin Rauch, backed by a group of Engineers, Architects and others built the curved loadbearing unstabilised rammed earth walls and floor of the Berlin Chapel of Reconciliation. This was considered a major breakthrough in Germany, a country with thousands of old successful rammed earth buildings including House Rath in Weilburg, Germany, 7 stores high, loadbearing and built in 1828, which is still in use.
