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Check out our online rammed earth course. Link in bio
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WIP Rammed earth office 📍Accra
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Rammed earth wall for Mmofra children’s park 📍Accra
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Our 2 bedroom rammed earth home design from $36,000 in 📍Ghana
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Rammed Earth Walls for Dot Ateliers 📍South Labadi, Accra
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Rammed earth walls for @dot .ateliers
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Rammed earth walls WIP 📍Accra
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Our sun-dried earth floor tiles, relaunching soon.
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6 years
Our Earth floor tiles made with a mixture of Earth aggregates & Shea butter, these are great to walk on as there are no toxins, water resistant, gives a better indoor air quality and a beautiful earth aesthetic.
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We hosted a rammed earth workshop in London over the weekend.
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R&D today with our earth tiles, this tile has a mix of earth, Shea butter, palm Kernal & a little a cement. We polished it using local beads to bring out the shine.
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Our custom designed earth tiles
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@hive_earth
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We still have spaces for our rammed earth workshops taking place in August, come and learn about rammed earth construction whilst building a maternity ward for the market women of Mallam attah.
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Rammed Earth Walls for @sharjaharch 📍Sharjah, UAE
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@hive_earth
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Starting to look like a home.
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We were featured on DW for their #ecoafrica segment, click link for full video.
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Rammed earth walls for Mallam Attah maternity ward.
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Taking off the formworks is the best part after creating the rammed earth wall.
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Fresh walls for our 2 bed Affordable prototype home.
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5 years
Construction for the Pata4two prototype is under way. It’s taken us just over 2 weeks to dig & ram foundations, now we are ramming the footings. Although we’ve had a few issues with land guards, things are going according to schedule.
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Not just in Ghana, but globally rammed earth is increasingly becoming a popular choice of construction because of its eco benefits.
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6 years
We are pleased to be working with Orthner, Orthner & associates and @rc_accrasouth to build this maternity ward for the market women of Mallam Attah and the local community.
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Fresh earth wall.
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@hive_earth
Hive Earth
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A few weeks ago we hosted a rammed earth workshop in Accra. Read more here 👇🏿
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@hive_earth
Hive Earth
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Join us in February 2024 for an hands on Rammed Earth Workshop. If you’ve ever wanted to build a home or structure with earth, this is a great workshop to start. Book now as spaces are very limited. Link in bio.
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The Keyhole Wall.
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Top floor walls coming up!
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An Exclusive Glimpse Into Amoako Boafo’s New Accra Art Space
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Walls complete for our pata4two project.
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Our custom designed earth tiles.
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Building a rammed earth wall in 8 steps
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The final touches.
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Foundation and footings coming up for our Mallam Atta rammed earth workshop.
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This simple hand made tool has built many multi story rammed earth builings.
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Hive Earth
6 years
We had a go at making earth floors, once dried and sealed an earth floor can last for around 30 years.
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Hive Earth
3 years
Rammed Earth tile samples for space cavier. Contributing to their ongoing research focused on rethinking the balance between the built and natural environments and the responsibility of the architect as an agent of transformation.
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Were looking forward to launching our 2 bedroom affordable home really soon. We can’t wait to show you.
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Hive Earth
6 years
We will hosting 4 rammed earth workshops in August to build the walls of the maternity ward for the market women of Mallam Attah. For details how to get involved please email hiveearth @gmail .com
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we've been working on a furniture collection using earth, this is one of our coffee table samples
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@hive_earth
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7 months
If you missed our last rammed earth workshop, we have another workshop that you can register for the 16th-17th of August. Click the link below to register your spot.
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Our longest rammed earth wall till date, 120ft of compressed earth and stone.
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Our Family centre project WIP
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Been doing a lot of R&D into poured earth walls over the past few months & we finally have the perfect mix.
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We are hosting a webinar discussing building with earth. Click link below to register.
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6 months
Over the past few months we have hosted training and workshops in Ghana, Nigeria, Benin and the UAE. We have and up coming working in London with our friends @BlackFemArc , where should we go next?
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Hive Earth
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Looking for architects! For a new project we are working on. Can be from anywhere not just Ghana, send DM or leave @ below for more details.
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Earth vs Cement
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We get more enquiries to learn about rammed earth than we do people wanting homes built. We have a few rammed workshops coming up in Accra soon that you can register on our site for. We also have a free online class on our site. Link in bio!
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Hive Earth
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We love having visitors to our site, if your an architect, a creative or work in construction feel free to pass by our trade fair site.
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We have just 2 spots left for our rammed earth workshop in 📍Accra. Book your spot before their all gone.
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Hive Earth
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If you missed our last rammed earth workshop, we have another one coming up August 16th. For more details and to book click 👇🏿
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Hive Earth
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Join our online rammed earth class where our experts will teach you how to build a rammed Earth wall. This will be a step by step class teaching you everything from soil selection, formwork construction and ramming techniques. Link below for more details
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Creating furniture with earth.
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@hive_earth
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We are looking for an architect to join our team, to apply click the link below.
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@hive_earth
Hive Earth
7 months
@RealEddieGh So many benefits: 1. Great thermal mass for a cooler indoor temperature. 2. Eco friendly 3. Uses less or no cement. 4. Fire proof. 5. Great for seismic zones 6. Unlike traditional mud homes its termite proof 7. Load bearing 8. No need to paint or plaster Just to name a few.
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Exploring Sharjah with @sharjaharch
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Building A Rammed Earth Home In Ghana via @YouTube
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Hive Earth
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For those interested in our rammed earth workshop, we have a free live webinar next Monday discussing the itinerary and a chance for you to ask us any questions about it. Register via link in our bio
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@DonkohGok Hiveearth @gmail .com
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3 days to till our rammed earth work shop in London!
@BlackFemArc
Black Females in Architecture
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We are excited to be collaborating with Hive Earth to deliver a rammed earth workshop in London on 18th May. Join us to learn how building traditional materials can offer a great opportunity to innovate for the future! #construction #sustainability
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@dnahinga We will actually be doing a workshop to help build this maternity ward, so if your interested learning about building with earth it would be great to get involved.
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Hive Earth
6 years
Our co-founder was on the @lionessesA radio show this week.
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Joelle Eyeson
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I was featured on the @lionessesA radio show this week, talking about @hive_earth and affordable housing on the continent. Listen here 👇🏿
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Hive Earth
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Earth feature walls we did for Orther Orthner and Associates.
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@eniteyoung This is built with earth.
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Don’t think we can ever get bored of these rammed earth walls.
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Praying the weather stays sunny all day so we can finally reveal this wall. #rammedearth #ghana
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7 years
Cannot wait till this house is done, few more weeks to go till we can roof this 😁
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@MegsamvisGlobal @TomJMO @JesseKenya We added 3% Portland cement to the mix
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@hive_earth
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@HAGONOFRANK @aomenya @dnahinga @Arch_KE If you can gather a bunch of people that are interested we will definitely come.
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@bkghana Very soon, we want to get our show home up so you can try before you buy.
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@hive_earth
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7 years
Agree with you on this.
@AbdoulMoudjib
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@tappingGhana Innovation We need more local context solutions to our profession challenges
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@hive_earth
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@bryceyancy @housingafrique We realised a lot of people have land in rural areas, but if there is no basic services on the land like water and electricity that eats into the cost of the build.
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@jasonick1 We only build on your own land.
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@davidkimwele @dnahinga @rc_accrasouth Yes, we will, hopefully construction should start early next year.
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@GirlsEdGH Theres no location. We come and build this unit on your own land
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@LABUSHKA We are currently building a show home so you can try before you buy.
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@sulaimanaa @cchukudebelu The walls are made with earth. We only build on your own land.
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@hive_earth
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@TiffanySoulbird As part of our r&d we will be doing a shatter resistance test and also take it to standards authority for further testing for its strength and durability.
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We’re making progress☺️
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@kandamene Yes, when its complete we will share the complete breakdown.
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@hive_earth
Hive Earth
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@TomJMO @JesseKenya This is a mixture of laterite, clay and crushed granite.
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@nzeora @cchukudebelu The materials can last for at least 300 years, rammed earth is basically sedimentary rock formation so over time it gets stronger.
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If we were to build a wellness real estate community all made from earth, where would be the perfect place in Ghana to build this?
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Hive Earth
7 years
We had a go at making #rammedearth vases today.
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Wall of good fortune.
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@ampofo39 @AkwasiiAmanquah We are already in ghana ooo
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@jmtanda Yes for this specific project we used cement to stabilise.
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@bryceyancy @housingafrique Then there is the issue of land, in almost every project we have done we have had litigation issues, sorting these can become time consuming and also eats into overall project cost.
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@hive_earth
Hive Earth
7 years
Imagine this stunning piece was made of rammed earth!
@solangeknowles
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metatronia (metatrons cube) (2018) modular sculpture and performance piece
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@SIMUTUHTX Not sure of the exact weight, but it will definitely need 2 people to carry.
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Our website is finally up ☺ go check it out.
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