A short documentary of a natural build filmed and produced by Dewi Roberts. It was constructed using the local, plentiful and renewable materials of wood, stone, straw, clay, lime and mud. It is a unique and very beautiful build...
Category - Projects Europe
Deltagrün: 20 years of Straw Bale Building in Germany with Arch. Dirk Scharmer
Building with natural building materials Natural building materials provide new impetus in sustainable construction...
UP STRAW Reference Buildings
VIDEOS from the straw insulated public buildings that have been constructed with the support of the Interreg project UP...
Offgrid-huset
Self-sufficient house made by Steen Møller and students from the school where the house is built
NORDIC FOLKECENTER
First Danish Tiny House located in Nordisk Folkecenters beautiful surroundings down to Skibsted Fjord. Built as a...
Tiny house selfbuild
A tiny house from EcoCocon panels mostly self built.
Barn shaped passive house close to the Tatra mountains
EcoCocon straw wall system built on raised wooden foundations.
First EcoCocon Passive House
First house errected with EcoCocon panels outside of Lithuania (in 2011).
Passive house
EcoCocon passive house in middle Slovakia Annual specific heat demand: 15.2 kWh/(m2/a)Blower Door Test: n50 =...
Villa Orlin
An exclusive villa built with EcoCocon panels and a demanding green roof where every rafter is at a different angle.
Straw bale house with ECOCOCON panels
Createrra planned this passive house with ECOCOCON straw modules and had it built with a Slovakian carpentry firm.
Ecococon family home
2 storey Ecococon house
Ecococon family home
2 storey Ecococon house
Modern Passive house in central Slovakia
Modern EcoCocon building with green roofs
Three stories – small footprint
3 story high EcoCocon building with a footprint of only 40m2.
Modern Passive house with a sloped green roof
Modern passive house with large windows to the south and north.
Traditional country house
EcoCocon passive house in the hills of central Slovakia
Modern EcoCocon house
A structured house designed in passive standard from ecococon panels. One part is higher with open attic and pitched...
Traditional country house
A passive house built with EcoCocon panels at the foot of the Tatra mountains.
Rounded triangular floorplan with EcoCocon panels
A triangular floorplan with rounded corners assembled with EcoCocon panels.
Center for Halmbyggeri
Private allotment house for summer living
GESA Haus des Lernens – House of Learning
Gesa built the House of Learning behind its headquarters at 36 Daniel Gran Street. An ecologically sustainable building...
Straagaarden
Raised concrete foundation with 70 cm musselshells as isolation. Wooden construction with KERTO beams, and big bales...
Vivienda en Tarroja
Addition to existing home. Doble post with SB infill. Self-built with volunteers and professional supervision.
Vivienda de Sergi y Neus
Two storey post and beam building. Mostly self-built.
Casa De Mayal
Made with prefabricated panels by EconHouse.
Vivienda Moralzarzal
Post and beam infill. Low cost (aprox. 780€ for everything).
Casa Mataelpino
Passive house made with Alfawall prefab modules and professional finishes.
Casa Ana
Post and beam, with infill in CUT technique.
Casa Requena
Passive House made with Alfawall prefab panels. Exterior part ventilated façade and part lime plaster.
Ecosdelduero
Built with CUT infill technique. Owner built. Started in 2017. To be finished 2021.
Casa Ecológica Choliba
Owner built building is both home and rural hotel.The building has wooden structure and SB infill. Natural plasters.
Refugio Familiar
Reformation of old brick building, with SB infill between brick walls.
Casa Bodonal
Loadbearing building with unique detail: the “mother beam” is supported by loadbearing straw, not posts.
Caseta de Profesores Bala Box
Made with unique prefab modules: each is just one bale! Built for public golf federation.
Vivienda en Colmenar de Arroyo
Built with CUT infill technique, natural plasters outside and panels inside. Mostly self-built. “A” efficiency...
Vivienda Valle de Mena
Built with prefab straw modules. Plaster finishes. Extremely efficient energy rating.
Self-built home in Madrid
145m2 home, self-built with CUT technique and professional support.
Ausstellungsgebäude | Gartist GmbH
Load-bearing straw building with cantilever roof Lasttragender Strohbau mit Kraggewölbe-Dach For the...
Sarah Wigglesworth straw bale house in London
Two decades ago, the architect built a groundbreaking green space for living and working. How has ‘the straw bale...
Gateway Building at The University of Nottingham’s Sutton Bonington campus
The Story of Straw… and how to use straw in a modern building. Make took one of the most traditional building...
Rachel Shiamh’s Strawbale House in Pembrokeshire, Wales
Rachel Shiamh lived off-grid in a shed in her woodland in Wales, carrying water from a local spring, using candlelight...
Switzerland’s first straw bale settlement
The planned settlement is committed to sustainability in various respects. In addition to thoughts on social and...
Lilac Co-Housing project
Lilac, 20 households of affordable co-housing made with pre-fab Modcell straw panels in 2013 designed by White Design
Spiral House, Ireland
Spiral shaped house & the first 2 storey loadbearing to be built in Europe Technical design and courses by Barbara Jones
Tony Wrench’s Roundhouse
This is an ecohome of wood frame, cordwood and recycled window walls, straw-insulated turf roof; with solar power and...
Modcell’s Inspire Bradford Business Park
Inspire Bradford Business Park has been built on a brownfield site close to Eccleshill Community Hospital in Bradford...
Architect’s office in the straw bale hobbit dome building
According to plans by Prof. Gernot Minke and Arch. Zuzana Kierulvova, who is also a networker in Slovakia, this dome...
Straw bale house in Felding
Straw bale house by Lars Keller, Danish networker, with (typical Danish) mussel shell foundation, straw roof and clay...
Straw bale vault school in Abybro
Unique straw bale construction with vaulted ceilings and cordwood walls built by Den Økologiske Landbrugsskole.
Tomas’ House: First Straw Bale House in Slovakia
The Zajezka Ecovillage eco-construction centre near Zajezova in the heart of Slovakia is the hub of the Slovakian straw...
Straw bale house Arild Berg
A straw bale building by the Norwegian networker Arild Berg (collaborator in the office of Arch. Rolf Jacobson). Lime...
Passive House Disentis
The wall construction was done with so-called jumbo straw bales with the dimensions 2.40m length, 1.25m width and 0.70m...
La Boa in Belfiore di Pramaggiore
Stefano Soldati's house is the first straw bale house in Italy to be built by himself and in workshops (Barbara Jones)
Passive House Kurtatsch/South Tyrol
The Passivaus by architects Margareta Schwarz (Italy) and Werner Schmidt (Switzerland) was the winner of the "Klimahaus...
Strohbau Mlada Boleslav
Experimental building with raised textile roof and unrendered straw bale façade in front of a solid brick building...
Schmidlin House, Wahlen near Laufen
Interesting load-bearing straw bale building with large bales on the ground floor and small bales on the upper floor.
Seminar building Bugday
Load-bearing seminar building for the organic farmers' association Bugday near Istanbul. Planning and execution:...
Strawbalewall / Straw bale wall
This straw bale wall in the gardens of Capel Manor College in Enfield, UK is not just a privacy screen, it is a...
Holiday units Esser-Unterholzner
Load-bearing straw bale construction with large bales that were plastered directly. The floor slab is also insulated...
Workshop LaBoa in Belf Venice
Load-bearing small demonstration straw bale construction on car tyre foundation with curved walls, built in a workshop...
Brenderup Primary School
The Adult Education Centre in Brenderup was founded in 1986, and the spectacular straw bale building with a hyperbolic...
Mas Franch Permaculture Centre
The community centre was built using round timber post and beam construction, with the straw bales plastered directly...
El Faro Pavillon*
The 25 m high El Faro, made of prefabricated clay plastered straw bale walls on a timber frame, was erected on the...
Lammas Ecovillage Roundhouse Simon Dale
Ullastret family home
One family house in BTC (Bloques de tierra comprimida) - in Ullastret with Catalan vaults and earth bricks in the south...
Hana’s house
The Zajezka Ecovillage eco-construction centre near Zajezova in the heart of Slovakia is the hub of the Slovakian straw...
Apartment building in Minergie standard
The apartment building on the edge of the village of Therwil has been supported with subsidies as an "exemplary...
Guest houses for ecological living
One of the workshop-buildings was cladded with a ventilated wooden façade, while the other is made of clay (mixed with...
Lammas Ecovillage Community Centre
The community house with central fireplace.
Lasttragendes Strohballenhaus in Dornbirn
For the straw bale house in Dornbirn, straw is not only used as a good insulating material, but also as a supporting...
7-storey modular building in St. Die des Vosges
The tallest straw bale building in the world was built in Saint Dié, France in 2011 as a Jules Ferry passive house...
Horta de la Viola
Maren Termens' house is a finca for organic farming and permaculture as well as a place for workshops.
Pavilion with unplastered thatched façade
Experimental building by Paris Studio 1984 in Alsace, France, inspired by agricultural constructions.
The „Ufo“ in Melcice-Lieskove
The shape of the house results from the optimal form to capture the solar energy. According to the architects, 90%...
Straw Bale Hobbit House with Green Roof in Sweden
In Kojtet near Linköping, a CUT construction was built around the existing supporting structure, straw bales were...
Straw bale house with Paideuma dome in Enzesfeld, AT
This detached house with Paideuma Klang-Dom was insulated with straw bales in spring 2017.
Mas Duran
This traditional Catalan farmhouse was lovingly built by the owner himself over a period of five years. Not a straw...
Straw bale house in Prinias/Crete (GR)
Straw bale house in the Psiloritis mountains of Crete for 3 residential units on top of a Raki-production hall.
LowCost Straw Bale Roundhouse in Upper Austria
LowCost roundhouse project with reciprocal roof, straw bale insulated floor slab, walls and roof, diagonal boarding...