Maison en Paille Porteuse

2020-09-20

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With great support from friends and family, this load-bearing construction came into being. Rice straw was used for the bales, the source of which is about 15 km away from the construction site.

Project Data

Place:l'Aude Completion:2012 Construction:load bearing straw bale Design:Coralie Garcia / Les Compaillons Straw Builder:Beratung: Coralie Garcia Building Costs:560,- €/m² Visitable:No Press photos:No

Self Building:Selbstbau mit Beratung durch Coralie Garcia / Les Compaillons

Living Area:120m² U-Value (Wall):W/m²K U-Value (Roof):W/m²K Categories: Projects France,

With great support from friends and family, this load-bearing construction came into being. Rice straw was used for the bales, the source of which is about 15 km away from the construction site. Website of the building family

About the author

Herbert Gruber

Herbert is author of the book "Neues Bauen mit Stroh in Europa" (New Building with Straw in Europe), head of the austrian strawbale network ASBN and partner in the Leonardo-project "STEP" (Strawbale Training for European Professionals) and the Erasmus project "BuildStraw Pro" (a project to get formal national recognition of the training) and "Make your City Smart". As a collector he documents European straw bale buildings since 1999 on his website (database, german), in lectures, workshops and books.

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