Author - Herbert Gruber
Single-family house in Pucking
Old barn in the Waldviertel renovated
The filling with straw bales took place during an ASBN workshop
Single-family house in Auberg
Residential house and physiotherapy in Braunau
Wall construction: 3 cm clay plaster on plaster base/reed mat, timber frame with core insulation 36 cm, DWD and plaster...
Thermal renovation with straw bale hipped roof
An old building with an energy standard of originally 254 kWh/m2.a was energetically improved by 96% through this...
Conversion of city villa with new penthouse
After a general renovation and the construction of a penthouse in place of the old attic, a new city domicile was...
Neustift: residential building in straw bale construction method
In this project, the exterior walls are provided with a prefabricated insulation layer made of straw bales. The flat...
Passive house with straw insulation in the roof
This passive house in Margarethen am Moos was built using solid brick construction but with straw insulation in the...
Bungalow with pent roof in Rabenstein/Lower Austria
A private, barrier-free, single-storey house with straw-bale insulated timber frame in the roof, walls and floor...
Thermal façade renovation with straw bales
Thermal refurbishment of a 49cm thick brick wall by installing a straw façade in front of it with an auxiliary...
Straw house in Styria with straw façade
Diagonally planked timber frame construction, which is insulated on the outside with a straw façade. As in load-bearing...
Passive single-family house with thatched roof
Solid house with thermal insulation facade and straw bale roof
Renovation of an old square farmhouse
A large square courtyard, which serves as a 3-party residential building, was thermally renovated on the outside:...
Straw low-energy single-family house
With an EKZ of 15, this building meets the passive house standard.
system|house in modular straw construction
The first project of the system|haus|bau cooperation with prefabricated modules (Kreativer Holzbau, Bauatelier Schmelz...
Perwarth – Revitalisation Vierkanthof
With great attention to detail, this former square farmhouse was converted into a country residence for two families.
House Simma
A 60s brick house was covered with a straw shell in a general renovation. This created a completely new, modern...
Allotment house in Vienna
With prefabricated system|haus modules, this allotment house was made in Vienna.
Single-family house with practice in Zwettl
The single-family house with attached practice is situated on a south-facing slope. The special features are the light...
Low-energy house in Heidenreichstein
Single-family house with tested wall, ceiling and roof elements with carport and tool shed.
Modular straw construction: detached house in Hoheneich
The timber frame construction was insulated with straw bales, the outbuilding was made of Ytong.
Straw bale passive house in Breitenwaida
The entire internal room layout of this passive house was set at an angle to the outer shell, which allows for...
Single-family house in Gleisdorf
Passive House in Styria with wooden cladding.
Straw bale barn: The magic of the spaces in between
Stadel metamorphosis with a straw bale shell: an approximately 150-year-old barn was revitalised into a home for a...
Load-bearing straw bale construction in Fehring
Load-bearing straw bale construction in Fehring, Styria.
Old brick building with straw façade
An old brick building was thermally renovated by adding a straw bale façade.
Straw bale construction near Bad Gleichenberg
A timber frame construction and its window and door boxes are planked with structurally stiffening OSB boards. Then the...
Bruckner Single-family house
Detached single-family house in massive passive house construction with straw insulation in the roof, EKZ according to...
Passive house with straw bale roof
This solid house with a 30 cm thermal insulation façade and straw-bale insulated monopitch roof was built in...
Single-family house as an energy-plus house
Was the 11th house in Austria to be certified as a passive house by the IBO (Austrian Institute for Building Biology...
Haus Nenning, Holiday Pension
Farm shop and holiday guesthouse in Hittisau, built in prefabricated straw bale construction.
Timber straw construction in St. Marein, Graz
Residential house in timber frame construction with OSB panel bracing and front-mounted, directly plastered straw...
Office building BM Höller
The office building of Baumeister Ing. Jürgen Höller GmbH was built as a passive house in brick construction, the pent...
Straw bale passive house Ruprechtshofen
Passive house with straw insulation. Living area on the upper floor, bedrooms on the ground floor, no slope. Glass-only...
Load-bearing straw house with big bales near Feldbach
Straw bale house in Molln, Upper Austria
Generation house in timber frame construction with straw bale insulation, moon-phase cut timber on strip foundation.
Wine cellar with wine tavern in Engabrunn / Lower Austria
This business building - the Piller winery and wine tavern - was built largely in straw bale construction in 2009.
Traditional straw bale house in Upper Austria
Office building in Aigelsberg / Upper Austria
Single-family passive house Marxgut / Schedler
Winner of the Climate Protection Award 2008, exterior walls made of 55 cm straw
Single-family passive house in Saalfelden
"The primary factors in deciding to use straw bale insulation were the very good building biology and ecological values...
Straw bale construction in Obsteig
If the construction of the truss is matched to the bale size, a straw house is also insulated in a very short time.
Straw with a difference
Not straw bales but chopped straw is blown into the Lopas prefabricated houses, thus also achieving fire safety and...
New construction of the upper storey in straw construction method
Insulation of the façade with 16 cm EPS, new construction of the top floor in timber frame construction with straw bale...
Straw bale passive house St. Donat / Carinthia
Timber frame construction with straw bale insulation layer on the outside. In this house, the floor slab, the walls...
Primary school Absdorf: Renovation with straw bales
The primary school, which dates back to the 1960s, was insulated with straw bales as part of a general renovation.
Passive house in Leibnitz
New brick building, passive house, with straw bales attached to the façade, which were then plastered directly.
Straw bale yurts
Claudius Kern organises workshops on yurt construction. Unlike the classic yurt, a round house is built from straw...
Bühel 740
The objective in planning the new office building was to construct a sustainable, building biology-optimised building...
Dross: Viticulture farm building
A company building with straw bale insulation was developed for the Buchegger-Mayr winery. The wine cellar was...
Lowest energy house in Dross, Lower Austria
In this detached house, the wall elements of the upper floor were insulated with 35 cm and the roof structure with 50...
Passive house in Ollersbach / Lower Austria
Passive house in timber frame construction with straw bale insulation, solid wood ceiling and flat roof
Straw bale passive house in Seitenstetten
Ecological materials (no PU foam, plastic-free wall construction...): wood, straw bales, clay plaster, hemp, sheep's...
Straw bale house in Roggenreith / Lower Austria
Low-energy house in prefabricated timber frame construction that serves as an office and residential building.
House Z
Architecturally and constructively very interesting straw bale house in Eberschwang: new building in prefabricated...
One-family house Schmied House
Straw bale floor slab, larch wood façade, loam rendering
Roof insulation in Tyrol
The straw bales were covered with a layer of clay for fire protection.
Bungalow in Moosbrunn
Brick house, top floor ceiling insulated with straw bales: by the way, this is a simple method to cover a "floating"...
Straw bale passive house Unterbergern
This straw bale passive house was completed in a record time of 3.5 months at the beginning of 2006
Straw bale house in Mollands (Lower Austria)
The winegrowers Petra and Manfred Strom have fulfilled their dream and realised the straw bale house according to their...
Straw bale double passive house in Radstadt / Sbg.
This passive house was built in Salzburg in record time in 2006. With 180 m2 it offers usable living space for two...
Straw bale house Ottnang / Upper Austria
Construction of an upper storey in straw construction method
Low-energy single-family house in Gossendorf, Styria
120 m2 detached house in timber frame construction with straw bale insulation (walls and roof) in Gossendorf/ Bad...
Straw bale house in Ottenschlag im Mühlkreis / Upper Austria
The timber façade is prefabricated, the walls are already delivered to the construction site with the finished timber...
Attic insulation in Leiben / Lower Austria
Straw bale passive house in Lilienfeld, Lower Austria
Exterior walls in straw bale insulation 35 cm, interior walls in OSB, insulation by cellulose "clima super", roof...
Straw-built low-energy house in Bad Aussee / Styria
HLFS St. Florian
Passive House Fink
This straw-bale passive house in Gleisdorf was awarded the 2009 Styrian Wood Construction Prize.
Wooden house with straw insulation in Taxham
The walls and roof of this timber frame building were insulated with 37 cm straw bales.
Revitalisation of a barn into a straw bale office
This harmonious office, which also serves as a seminar and presentation room for the asbn workshops, was created...
Straw bale house near Amstetten / Lower Austria
Two-storey single-family house in straw construction
Straw bale passive house in St. Lorenz am Mondsee / Upper Austria
This house is a prototype for a prefabricated house system, but it has hardly been built to date.
Straw bale house in Traunkirchen / Upper Austria
Single-storey living level in straw construction
Straw bale house in Wultschau / Lower Austria
Single-family house with straw insulation
Straw house in Schardenberg / Upper Austria
Hexagonal, single-storey straw building "Diamond"
House Square
Straw bale house in Upper Austria
Straw bale passive house in Wels / Upper Austria
The bales are installed vertically between the transoms. The bales were installed in the horizontal wall before the...
Self-build garden shed in Leonding
Small round post timber construction with straw bale insulation erected by self-construction