Agbrigg & Bellevue Community building

2020-10-05
by esba
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Agbrigg & Bellevue Community building
Written by esba

Loadbearing classroom & Kitchen for allotments, designed & courses by Amazon Nails in 2006 with car tyre foundations

Project Data

Place:Agbrigg Completion: Construction:Loadbearing Design:Amazon Nails Straw Builder:Amazon Nails, Trainer Barbara Jones & Bee Rowan Amazon Nails, Trainer Barbara Jones Visitable:No Press photos:No
Living Area:30m2 U-Value (Wall):W/m2K U-Value (Roof):W/m2K Categories: Projects UK,

A single storey loadbearing straw community building on the allotments at Sandy Lane, Wakefield in 2006. Designed by Amazon Nails, self-built with training by Amazon Nails and contractor help from Dales Contracts. This wonderful building has rammed car tyre foundations, and a planted sedum roof, with lime plaster outside and clay plaster internally. It is a community classroom/kitchen for the allotment holders and also has a compost toilet.

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esba

The European Straw Building Association is an independent European association, devoid of any profit making motive. The object of the Association is to promote and develop the use of straw, as a sustainable way of building in all the senses of the term “sustainable”: renewable, ecological, healthy, energy and climate efficient, social and economic.
The Association is a federation composed of organisations and people particularly concerned with the use of straw in buildings.

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