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Damn, just lost my whole post and don't feel like re typing on my phone. This rammed earth option in Australia is great but I know little about preserving the exterior skin.

Interesting, I guess that's what they used for the roof/berm transition. Definitely limited by climate but you could always rigid foam/stucco the exterior? Maybe not.

Now that I have a full keyboard: I love the idea of shipping container builds because you can actually ship the container and all materials required to finish out the house in the container. What I don't like is that you're limited to these rectangular prisms and it feels like a labyrinth to me. Putting wood and drywall on the inside and wood and siding/stucco on the outside feels like it defeats the purpose of it.

With the dry-stack you are building and finishing your walls in fewer steps. The parge coat is your interior wall. I've seen a few houses where they use the 4x8 sheets as their flooring and that I suppose would be what I'm pushing for. Making the structure double as the finish layer? Cutting out the redundancies.

Links for the Australia complex.

Yeah, I remember seeing those somewhere else in Australia. Awesome idea but definitely limited on the local geology. That one looks like it's been well lit, the other ones that I saw had not been...