Ravelsbach – Extension of the “Virtual Building Site” seminar building
On the north side of the barn, which has been converted into a seminar centre, 3 new guest rooms are being built organically using the CUT technique (half vault).
Projects Austria
Straw bale house in Seyring
This fairly accessible straw bale house in Seyring near Vienna was built in August 2019.
Straw bale house in St. Georgen im Lavanttal
StrohNatur and asbn built this straw bale house with a reciprocal roof in Carinthia with the help of the builder
Straw bale house near Gmünd
This straw bale house addition was built in two new workshops, the construction including the straw bale ceiling was erected and the house was insulated with straw bales and plastered with clay and lime.
Straw bale house in Frauenkirchen, Burgenland
Built by StrohNatur and asbn with support of trainers and workshops.
Fassaden-Einblasstrohdämmung
The house was built around 1960. Christina Miedler wanted to choose an ecological path and move away from Styrofoam. Through the Waldviertel Energy Round Table the year before (2019), she got to know Reinhard Appeltauer, who works at Sonnenklee in Kematen. She also wanted to support her own region and chose the company Reissmüller from … Read more
House Sabine and Werner, Fertöúljak / HU
A 70 m2 weekend straw bale house was built in the Seewinkel National Park, which will be used as a residential house.
Straw bale show house in Rußbach, Upper Austria
This straw bale house was built at Lake Wolfgang. The house can be visited as a show house by appointment.
Straw bale house Andrea & Sebastian, Ernstbrunn/Lower Austria
In Dörfles in Ernstbrunn, an approx. 94 m2 straw bale house was built with the help of the construction family.
Winter Garden Wrapping in Strebersdorf/Vienna
The conservatory of a pre-war brick building was insulated with straw bales (wrapping) and plastered with lime.
Straw bale architecture in Summerau/Upper Austria
2-storey straw bale house with covered terrace and barn extension and wall tempering in clay plaster.
Straw bale house in house in Goggendorf/Lower Austria
Straw bale house in a large barn, built by asbn together with Okambuva and plastered with clay on both sides.
Wrapping of an allotment house in Vienna
As part of a STEP Wrapping workshop, an allotment house was wrapped with 15cm straw insulation in 5 different ways.
Load-bearing straw bale house with big bales in Fürstenfeld
In July 2017, this load-bearing straw bale house was erected in Fürstenfeld with big bales.
Wrapping in Plank am Kamp, Lower Austria
A small detached house in Plank am Kamp was wrapped with straw (thermally insulated) and plastered with lime in 2017.
Straw bale house extension in Pulkau/Lower Austria
In the inner courtyard of an ensemble of houses in Pulkau, a new straw bale house is/was built in 2017.
Straw bale house with Paideuma dome in Enzesfeld, AT
This detached house with Paideuma Klang-Dom was insulated with straw bales in spring 2017.
Hobbithouse on the alp with green roof, Salzburg
A “hobbit house” with a green roof was built in the Salzburg mountains at 1100 m above sea level. The walls are up to 6.5 m high.
Straw bale wrapping in Pregarten, Upper Austria
A two-storey detached house was wrapped with straw bales and partly plastered, partly cladded with wood.
Straw bale infill gable walls and roof Upper Austria
Straw bale infill in roof and gable walls in CUT technique
LowCost Straw Bale Roundhouse in Upper Austria
LowCost roundhouse project with reciprocal roof, straw bale insulated floor slab, walls and roof, diagonal boarding, reed stucco and clay/lime plaster.
Straw Bale Sun Dome in Velden (AT)
Straw bale dome in CUT-technique erected during a workshop in Velden am Wörthersee 2014 and with the help of the building family Bernhard and Bianca (sun dome)
Virtual straw building site for workshops: Revitalisation and extension of a barn
Training centre and permanent exhibition at the same time is the House of the Future project “Virtual Building Site” of the asbn, funded by bm:vit
Straw bale vault in Ravelsbach
Straw construction can be so beautiful: Revitalising the attic of a barn to create living space in the form of a barrel vault.
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 structure
Robbiton – Robinson Island Adventure Playground
The adventure playground at Greinergasse 7 in Vienna is freely accessible, and the two straw bale buildings can be visited here.
Straw bale low-energy house in Maria Anzbach
Here, 35 cm thick straw bales were installed, which together with 24 cm of flax in the floor result in a good low-energy house (32 KWh/m2/year).
Single-family house in Raab
Erdgeschoß (Ziegelwand) thermisch saniert, Obergeschoß Neubau Holzriegelkonstruktion sowie neuer Dachstuhl mit Strohballenausfachung. Als Dämmständer und Dachsparren wurden zwei 5x8er Latten mit DWD-Platten verbunden verwendet.Bauherr: Wolfgang Lauber
AllesPaletti straw bale house
Experimental building constructed by Greenskills in Aspern from Europallettes with straw bale insulation.
Detached house in Mautern
Certified straw bales are used as insulation for the house, and the living climate is additionally enhanced by the clay plaster wall.
Outbuilding as studio
Studio (outbuilding) completely built with timber post and beam construction and floor slab on prepared point foundations as part of an ASBN workshop.
Addition of a storey to a detached house in Kleinebersdorf
For the purpose of extending the usable living space, a complete residential unit with an additional 152 m² floor space in passive house quality was created by adding a storey.
Passive House Stotzing
Solid brick house (25 cm) with 36 cm straw bale facade as “full thermal insulation” and flat roof. Hillside location with handicapped-accessible entrance to the surgery in the basement.
Load-bearing straw bale house made from big bales
Jumbo straw bales weighing 250 kg, plastered with clay or lime, act as load-bearing elements. The walls of the buildings have a wall thickness of 80 cm.
Butterfly House in Wriesnitz near Maria Saal
The Slovenian company Snopje also builds straw bale houses in Austria using a prefabricated system they developed themselves.
Community House Garden of Generations
Markus Distelberger initiated the Garden of Generations project and also developed an alternative financing concept for it. After this first community house, further straw bale houses are to be built here.
Single-family house extension
The family planned the large extension to the existing home themselves and realised it in a short time with a lot of personal contribution and community support.
Apartment house in Hart-Purgstall
The apartment building with four residential units on two floors was insulated with certified straw bales.
Oktogon
This straw bale building was created during a one-week workshop led by ASBN. The building serves as a stable for the goats and sheep.
LowCost Vault
As part of a Greenskills course, a wooden post and beam vault was erected on a car tyre foundation at Sprungbrett Aspern (Seestadt Aspern in Vienna)
First load-bearing straw bale house with planning permission
The first load-bearing straw bale house in Austria with building permission. According to the building family, building approval is easily possible if a carpentry firm assumes liability.
Yurt insulated with straw bales
A yurt was erected on point foundations and a wooden platform, sheathed on the outside with straw bales and covered with a diffusion-open but rainproof tent fabric (TenCate KA-46).
Straw bale house with ECOCOCON panels
Createrra planned this passive house with ECOCOCON straw modules and had it built with a Slovakian carpentry firm.
Old barn in the Waldviertel renovated
The filling with straw bales took place during an ASBN workshop
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 façade
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 thermal refurbishment to a passive house.
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 created for a family of several doctors.
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 roof construction is placed floating over the thermal building envelope with a protective roof overhang.
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 roof.
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, passive house standard with earth cellar, veranda and green roof.
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 construction of 5 x 8cm stacks, which were externally clad with Fermacell HD façade boards.
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 straw bale construction, this is compressed with packing straps and additionally fastened to the timber construction with façade anchors.
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: sheathed with straw bales and plastered directly with lime.
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, Herbert Gruber, asbn).
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 building.
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 dome on the flat roof and the fixed shading of the house.
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 surprising spatial effects horizontally and vertically.
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 family of 5.
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 straw bales are placed on the outside, compacted, fastened with façade anchors and plastered directly.
Bruckner Single-family house
Detached single-family house in massive passive house construction with straw insulation in the roof, EKZ according to OIB: 9.8
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 Siegersdorf.
Freestanding passive house
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Insulated with straw chaff as blow-in insulation (in this sense not really a straw “bale” house).
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 and Ecology).
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 façade.
Office building BM Höller
The office building of Baumeister Ing. Jürgen Höller GmbH was built as a passive house in brick construction, the pent roof insulated with straw bales.
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 corner, larch wood façade.
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.
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 as well as the good sound insulation properties,” says the family.
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 passive house quality.
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 insulation.
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 (except for the south wall) and the roof were insulated with straw bales.
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 bales, and the “roof truss” is also lined with straw bales.
Bühel 740
The objective in planning the new office building was to construct a sustainable, building biology-optimised building in passive house standard. Straw bale construction, which had been unusual in Vorarlberg until then, seemed particularly well suited for this.
Dross: Viticulture farm building
A company building with straw bale insulation was developed for the Buchegger-Mayr winery. The wine cellar was insulated on the outside – in front of a solid concrete shell (thermal mass) – with straw bales.
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 cm wheat straw bales. Recognition for exemplary building in Lower Austria.
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 wool