Wow. The last trombe wall we showed was made of concrete and slate; This is nothing more than a gabion of wood and wire mesh, filled with river rock. But it does the same thing, creating a thermal ...

Because stone walls are man-made, their personality is derived from ... the introduction of wire fencing in 1874. Mortared walls required less sophistication and time to construct because cement ...

Architect Gaetano Maccaferri helped popularize them in civic projects in the late 1800s in Sacerno, Italy, using long walls to stabilize ... such as hog and cattle wire. Local stone or glass ...

But closer to town, stone walls give way to walls made of concrete, which has largely replaced stone as the defining material of Japan’s rural infrastructure. Is that because concrete ...