Straw bales, clay and larch wood form the outer shell of the family home. Even for the floor slab, the roof and the...
Author - Herbert Gruber
Straw bale single family house Lobau / Vienna
Modern 2 1/2 storey detached house in Vienna Lobau, completed in 2004.
Self-build garden shed in Leonding
Small round post timber construction with straw bale insulation erected by self-construction
Straw bale renovation and extension in Nestelbach near Graz / Styria
Renovation and extension of the Föhrenhof. The project received the "Energy Professional 2004" award.
Single-family residence and massage house in Neuhofen / Upper Austria
Biohof Achleitner / Upper Austria: Austria’s longest straw wall
The building was constructed in passive house quality. The hall was built as a special wooden construction with straw...
Load-bearing straw house on cellar, Riegersburg, Stmk
A 42 m2 load-bearing straw bale structure was built on top of a cellar.
Straw bale passive house in Wienerherberg
A beautiful straw bale house, which was also awarded the Golden Trowel in 2008. With straw-bale insulated floor slab on...
Single Family house in Schardenberg / Upper Austria
Two-storey detached house in straw construction.
Straw bale clay passive house Tattendorf
The passive house concept chosen for the Tattendorf office building by natur & lehm (now Lopas AG) is the first in...
strawbalehouse Allentsteig
Straw-bale insulated gym extension in a public school, planned by Wolfgang Tillich at the Office of the Lower Austrian...
Passive House Perchtoldsdorf / Lower Austria
Series wall suitable for passive houses built as part of a House of the Future project by Ökologie-Institut, ConsultS...
Detached house near Michelbach Markt / Lower Austria
Wooden post and beam construction with straw bale insulation with a large share of own work
Straw bale passive house in Gmünd / Lower Austria
Passive House Kindergarten Ziersdorf
On the occasion of a Haus der Zukunft project, this first passive house kindergarten in Austria was built in Ziersdorf...
Passive house in Paudorf
Passive single-family house near Rohrau
The cubic structure of the residential wing is compact and simply proportioned with a projecting flat roof. Instead of...
Low-energy house Maria Laach / Lower Austria
Straw bale house Pfarrkirchen / Upper Austria
Two-storey single-family house in straw construction
Thermal façade with straw bales in Altheim / Upper Austria
Straw bale full thermal insulation on the brick wall of an octagon
Straw bale house near Horn
Spatial qualities were reinterpreted in this AH3 project and sensitively integrated into the village environment using...
2 Double straw houses Seyring / Lower Austria
2-storey double prefabricated houses with straw bale insulation
Straw bale house in Polling, Upper Austria
Wooden post and beam construction with straw bale insulation in walls and roof.
Load-bearing straw bale house in St. Georgen/Carinthia
built during a workshop with Martin Oehlmann in St. Georgen am Längsee, 25 m2 load-bearing straw bale house, plastered...
Straw bale house Dobersdorf / Burgenland
Interesting straw bale house in timber frame construction (mostly self-built) with straw bale insulation layer on the...
Roof truss renovation Tiefenfucha / Lower Austria
In the course of renovating a 3-storey old building, a completely new 150 m2 roof truss and a conservatory porch were...
Straw bale house Mauerkirchen/ Upper Austria
Addition of a single-storey residential unit in straw construction
Straw bale house Siebenhirten / Lower Austria
2-storey single-family house in timber frame construction with round timber studs
das haus aus stroh, Breitenfurt, Lower Austria
135 m2 detached house with solid basement. Wooden post and beam construction with straw bale insulation in floor, wall...
Schönbühel Chapel / Lower Austria
small, prefabricated straw bale loam construction
Straw bale house Hitzendorf / Styria
Austria's first timber-frame and straw-bale house (1999) near Graz, two-storey residential house with approx. 150 m2...
Experimental building: 1st straw building in Austria
Temporary Land Art Project
Straw earth house in Maria Rain / Carinthia
In 1996, the straw and clay house won a prize in the "Sun-supported low-energy house" competition organised by the...
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Freestanding passive house
Insulated with straw chaff as blow-in insulation (in this sense not really a straw "bale" house).
Enno-Narten-Bau auf der Jugendburg Ludwigstein
One of Germany’s largest straw bale buildings is an extension on the castle grounds for a better range of seminar...
Straw-bale passive house with surgery in Engabrunn
The passive house with a doctor's practice was built with prefabricated components in a timber frame construction and...
First Viennese Straw Bale House
Flat and studio of the architects allmermacke in Vienna 6. Here, the entire roof over the newly built studio was...
Single-family house
Straw bale construction project by architect Matthias Böhnisch, who used it to build the first straw bale single-family...
Straw bale construction in Ferran
Floor slab, walls and roof insulated with straw bales. Some interior walls and floors were built with rammed earth.
Guest house in Brittany
Martin Oehlmann has built this straw bale house with two holiday flats in Brittany. The I-beam construction was built...
Straw Bale House in Genk, Belgium
asbn was invited to make a CUT-construction with straw bale infill in Belgium, where 4 trainers worked the first half...
New Building, Agricultural Warehouse
Load-bearing, 10m x 22m x 5,2m.
New building in the courtyard in Troisdorf, DE
Straw Bale Extension to an existing half-timbered house with clay plaster (inside) and lime plaster (outside)
Conversion and energy-efficient refurbishment
..of a 3-family house from the 60s
Le Guern House, Morbihan
A building with round walls constructed using the Gagné technique (mortared strawbale - straw bales in a cement grid)...
Single-family house in Greffeil
This thatched house, designed as an atrium, is largely self-built, with the builder now continuing to build at weekends...
Maison en Paille Porteuse
With great support from friends and family, this load-bearing construction came into being. Rice straw was used for the...
Straw bale construction in Mariagaarde
Round timber post and beam construction in Maria Gaarde/Belgium on point foundations with straw bale insulation: flood...
Rotselaar
Another straw bale building by the ORCA Architects & Engineers Office
Straw bale sound insulation
Straw bale wall as a sound-insulating partition wall in a Rudolf Steiner school, built in a workshop (Martin Oehlmann)...
Art Café Noorderlicht
For this project, an industrial hall construction was acquired and placed on an earthbag foundation. The rear wall and...
Floriade 2002
On the occasion of the Floriade 2002 in Holland, this load-bearing straw bale building was erected as a model pavilion...
Rooftop straw bale insulation
In this on-roof straw bale insulation in Marktl, the bales lie on a rough formwork with vapour barrier (construction...
Thermal straw bale renovation of a farmhouse in Allgäu, Bavaria
This farmhouse in Bavaria was sheathed with straw bales on the outside, plastered directly (on hare trellis) at ground...
Straw bale addition in Langenlebarn, Lower Austria
Extension with foam glass bag foundation and pallets, interior with reed mats and clay plaster
ESBA European Straw Building Association – General Assembly in Venice
The 2nd ESBA General Assembly took place on Sunday, June 18th, 15:00 in Venice during the ESBG (European Straw Bale...
Skills Database Europe
If you are offering services for the construction of straw bale houses or straw bale trainings also in other countries...
Lamond Municipal Straw Building
The first municipal building in France built with the financial participation of Communauté Cantonale de Celles sur...