Author - Herbert Gruber

The timber frame construction was insulated with straw bales, the outbuilding was made of Ytong.

Passive House in Styria with wooden cladding.

Farm shop and holiday guesthouse in Hittisau, built in prefabricated straw bale construction.

Residential house in timber frame construction with OSB panel bracing and front-mounted, directly plastered straw...

Generation house in timber frame construction with straw bale insulation, moon-phase cut timber on strip foundation.

This business building - the Piller winery and wine tavern - was built largely in straw bale construction in 2009.

Winner of the Climate Protection Award 2008, exterior walls made of 55 cm straw

"The primary factors in deciding to use straw bale insulation were the very good building biology and ecological values...

If the construction of the truss is matched to the bale size, a straw house is also insulated in a very short time.

Insulation of the façade with 16 cm EPS, new construction of the top floor in timber frame construction with straw bale...

Claudius Kern organises workshops on yurt construction. Unlike the classic yurt, a round house is built from straw...

Low-energy house in prefabricated timber frame construction that serves as an office and residential building.

Architecturally and constructively very interesting straw bale house in Eberschwang: new building in prefabricated...

Brick house, top floor ceiling insulated with straw bales: by the way, this is a simple method to cover a "floating"...

This straw bale passive house was completed in a record time of 3.5 months at the beginning of 2006

The winegrowers Petra and Manfred Strom have fulfilled their dream and realised the straw bale house according to their...

This passive house was built in Salzburg in record time in 2006. With 180 m2 it offers usable living space for two...

Construction of an upper storey in straw construction method

120 m2 detached house in timber frame construction with straw bale insulation (walls and roof) in Gossendorf/ Bad...

The timber façade is prefabricated, the walls are already delivered to the construction site with the finished timber...

Exterior walls in straw bale insulation 35 cm, interior walls in OSB, insulation by cellulose "clima super", roof...

The walls and roof of this timber frame building were insulated with 37 cm straw bales.

Two-storey single-family house in straw construction

This house is a prototype for a prefabricated house system, but it has hardly been built to date.

Single-storey living level in straw construction

Single-family house with straw insulation

Hexagonal, single-storey straw building "Diamond"

Straw bale house in Upper Austria

Small round post timber construction with straw bale insulation erected by self-construction

Straw bales, clay and larch wood form the outer shell of the family home. Even for the floor slab, the roof and the...

Modern 2 1/2 storey detached house in Vienna Lobau, completed in 2004.

Small round post timber construction with straw bale insulation erected by self-construction

Renovation and extension of the Föhrenhof. The project received the "Energy Professional 2004" award.

A 42 m2 load-bearing straw bale structure was built on top of a cellar.

Two-storey detached house in straw construction.

Wooden post and beam construction with straw bale insulation with a large share of own work

On the occasion of a Haus der Zukunft project, this first passive house kindergarten in Austria was built in Ziersdorf...

Two-storey single-family house in straw construction

Straw bale full thermal insulation on the brick wall of an octagon

Spatial qualities were reinterpreted in this AH3 project and sensitively integrated into the village environment using...

Interesting straw bale house in timber frame construction (mostly self-built) with straw bale insulation layer on the...

In the course of renovating a 3-storey old building, a completely new 150 m2 roof truss and a conservatory porch were...

Addition of a single-storey residential unit in straw construction

135 m2 detached house with solid basement. Wooden post and beam construction with straw bale insulation in floor, wall...

small, prefabricated straw bale loam construction

Austria's first timber-frame and straw-bale house (1999) near Graz, two-storey residential house with approx. 150 m2...

Temporary Land Art Project

The passive house with a doctor's practice was built with prefabricated components in a timber frame construction and...