Straw bale full thermal insulation on the brick wall of an octagon
Category - Projects Europe
Vreeland
shed with untreated straw
Markelo
art studio
Rotselaar
Another straw bale building by the ORCA Architects & Engineers Office
Turriff Artists Studio
A loadbearing single storey artists studio in Scotland built to Barbara Jones designs in 2003 courses by Amazon Nails
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 core.
Hierden
recreation house
Floriade 2002
On the occasion of the Floriade 2002 in Holland, this load-bearing straw bale building was erected as a model pavilion...
Carymoor Environment Centre
Loadbearing Environment Centre 2 semi-circular ends. Designed by Barbara Jones who also ran courses to help build it
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 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 construction in Mariagaarde
Round timber post and beam construction in Maria Gaarde/Belgium on point foundations with straw bale insulation: flood...
Romney Marsh Visitor Centre, Kent
Frame and infill Visitor Centre and cafe on the south coast, designed by Ian Mckay with consultancy from Barbara Jones
Straw bale house Arild Berg
A straw bale building by the Norwegian networker Arild Berg (collaborator in the office of Arch. Rolf Jacobson). Lime...
Straw Bale Building, Warmuth (Unterfranken)
Emigrant farm in Lower Franconia with 400 square meters living space on two full floors
Studio House Guhreitzen, Lüchow (Wendland)
One-storey wooden construction with straw insulation from big bales.
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
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This house, built in the 90s, was largely self-constructed. The insulation is carried out by an earth-straw mixture...
Koudum
house
Ouwerkerk
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Latham Farm
Circular loadbearing building 30m2 with compost loo. Designed by Simone Comandini with help from Barbara Jones
Straw bale vault school in Abybro
Unique straw bale construction with vaulted ceilings and cordwood walls built by Den Økologiske Landbrugsskole.
Straw bale sound insulation
Straw bale wall as a sound-insulating partition wall in a Rudolf Steiner school, built in a workshop (Martin Oehlmann)...
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...
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Experimental building: 1st straw building in Austria
Temporary Land Art Project
Single-family house
Straw bale construction project by architect Matthias Böhnisch, who used it to build the first straw bale single-family...
Straw bale house in Felding
Straw bale house by Lars Keller, Danish networker, with (typical Danish) mussel shell foundation, straw roof and clay...
Clones Round house, Ireland
Loadbearing circular house 3 floors & thatched roof built with courses by Barbara Jones in 1997 self built by the family
Tony Wrench’s Roundhouse
This is an ecohome of wood frame, cordwood and recycled window walls, straw-insulated turf roof; with solar power and...
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...
La Ferme du Champ
Farm building goat house and barn built between 1992 and 1996. Post and beam structure in local spruce. Filling in...
Steiner School
1st SB building in Ireland 1996, loadbearing by Barbara Jones with training courses for the Steiner School, Belfast
Le Guern House, Morbihan
A building with round walls constructed using the Gagné technique (mortared strawbale - straw bales in a cement grid)...
Renovation with Prefabricated Straw Elements, Leichlingen
Renovation, KfW 85 standard, prefabricated straw panels.
Maison Feuillette
This building is the oldest wooden and straw construction in the world. Built in 1920, it was bought in 2013 by the...
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Stone house, straw extension.
Groupe scolaire de la Haute Herbasse
School group made of adobe, wood and straw. Client: SIVOS de la Haute Herbasse. Commissioned architects: Design and...
Conservatoire national botanique
Brest Métropole. Conservatoire Botanique National de Brest – Architecte : Atelier Philippe Madec –...
Switzerland’s first straw bale settlement
Photo: Damian Poffet The planned settlement is committed to sustainability in various respects. In addition to thoughts...
Modcell’s Inspire Bradford Business Park
Inspire Bradford Business Park has been built on a brownfield site close to Eccleshill Community Hospital in Bradford...
Self-built home in Madrid
145m2 home, self-built with CUT technique and professional support.
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...
Offgrid-huset
Self-sufficient house with tunnel vault roof made by Steen Møller and students from Brenderup Hojskole, where the house...
Center for Halmbyggeri
Private allotment house for summer living
UK & Ireland Map of straw bale houses
Residence “Kranich”, Ecovillage Siebenlinden
Barrier-free straw bale house.
Bâtiment contemporain à Blanden
individual housing
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...
Straw bale addition in Langenlebarn, Lower Austria
Extension with foam glass bag foundation and pallets, interior with reed mats and clay plaster
Straw lion for children in Ravelsbach (AT)
As part of the "Land/Life/Today" event, this straw bale sculpture with a tunnel for children was erected in summer 2014...
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...
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 ...
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Bioclimatic contemporary house.
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Contemporary house with wood frame, douglas siding, green roof.
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Detached house.
Ecocentre de Savoie
Extension in self-supporting straw timber frame under existing post and beam, as part of the renovation of a...
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Load-bearing box house, much of it self-constructed.
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Detached house in CST in the eco-hamlet “les Amaranthes”.
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Self-construction in GREB.
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Gîte de l’Atelier de Vannerie
Wood frame gite, insulated with straw bales.
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Post and beam structure house with straw bale lining, on 2 floors with attic floor also insulated in bundles. The first...
Habitat groupé à Nangy
Stone barn transformed into a collective dwelling, with the creation of wood-frame shearing walls, insulated with bales...
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Post and beam house with a non-load-bearing second frame for straw bales.
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Renovation of a wooden barn on stone masonry base. Insulation of the walls with straw bales in a secondary frame.
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Wooden frame house, braced in battens, insulated in bales of straw (walls and roof).
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Insulated house in GREB technical straw bale.
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Post and beam frame house with insulation in bundles of lavender straw, roof insulated in bundles of wheat straw. Inner...
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Wood frame house insulated in straw bale. Insulated cellulose wadding fermettes, self-built, supplied by Gipen...