Projects France

This thatched house, designed as an atrium, is largely self-built, with the builder now continuing to build at weekends for around 5 years.

Partial self-construction assisted by Annaïg Madec from the Botmobil association.

Partial self-construction assisted by Florent Masson for the framework.

Located in an eco-hamlet combining self-promotion and grouped housing, the building on stilts houses a two-storey family home. The bioclimatic design of the project allows it to reach the passive level in practice. Impeccable in terms of life cycle quality, the building materials are entirely biosourced, local, unprocessed and sustainable. The envelope and the framework … Read more

Detached house R+1 120 m² +cellar, technique GREB mortar.

House wood/straw type box house douglas clad with BBC Effinergie 2005 certification with wood and wood/aluminium joinery. Pellet stove heating.

This straw construction project is multiple: it includes a thermal insulation from the outside (straw between uprights), an elevation (wooden frame with straw filling) and an extension (straw carrier compressed by the funicular form). Here we will only talk about the extension part.

Our house is a bioclimatic house with a low ecological footprint. An architect from the Maisons Paysannes de France association helped us to draw up plans and techniques. We voluntarily eliminated energy consuming materials such as cement, adopting lime in all its forms. The foundations are made of Cogébloc (based on volcanic rocks) with a … Read more

Located in an eco-hamlet combining self-promotion and grouped housing, the building houses a family home. The bioclimatic design of the project enables it to meet the conditions of a passive building in practice. Impeccable in terms of life cycle quality, the building materials are entirely biosourced, local, unprocessed and sustainable. The envelope and the framework … Read more

Wood frame house braced by lathes. Coatings ground inside.

Wooden frame house, in prefabricated load-bearing boxes in the workshop.

Wood frame house, straw filling, with bow window.

Total self-construction of a wooden house earth straw.

Early Childhood Home.

Straw bale insulation on the outside of an existing house, with modification of the roof and replacement of the joinery.

Wood frame house.

Administrative building (headquarters of the association) and Laboratory. Prefabrication of insulated load-bearing caissons in straw bales for the walls .

Maison Relais: 10 dwellings built using GREB technology. Wood frame, straw insulation, exterior wood cladding on df. Ceiling and interior cladding on PV.

Detached house.

Contemporary house and architecture workshop.

Partially self-built house.

Riding school in an agricultural college. 2 riding arenas and 2 quarries and 1 barn Club House, changing rooms, offices, saddlery in straw insulation coated earth outside. Raw earth masonry wall in the Club House. Glued laminated wood, wood cladding. Bioclimatic greenhouse (central village square).

Family project.

Single-storey house GREB method on BBaB studs, sheep’s wool roof.

Agricultural building for organic market gardening.

Detached house.

Off-centre frame house, externally braced in dense wood fibre, with air space and wood siding . A facade is plastered on canisses fixed to the bracing. The attic floor is insulated in flat bundles plus a layer of blown cellulose wadding. Self-built masonry heater. The organic rye was grown and pressed on a family plot.

Bakery with a post-and-beam structure with straw filling in the walls and in the roof between load-bearing rafters.

Project in self-construction at 80%. The inhabitants settled in their finished house after 2 years of work.

Straw house with a slate roof and a steep slope, typical of the Touraine region. The couple is leading most of the project in self construction. They integrate pallet partitions inside, insulated in straw earth.

For this straw house, the boots really didn’t come from far… since the car builders are farmers! So they provided their own boots and invested a lot in their construction project. The woodwork is mixed, wood and aluminium. The means of heating is a self-built mass stove.

This self-constructing couple from Deux-Sèvres installs beehives, a phyto-purification plant… and a beautiful house made of wood and straw on their large plot of land. Most of the work was carried out in self-construction. Bois et Paille intervened for the wooden slab and the post and beam structure in douglas fir. We also did a … Read more

The largest wooden and straw house built by the company since its beginnings. The wooden slab has beautiful dimensions (and it was built on stilts, by the self-builders!); the effect of grandeur is also given by the two courtyards along the south and west facades, which will offer beautiful terraces to the inhabitants. Bois et … Read more

This post-and-beam structure in the Dordogne is specific to the Bois et Paille houses, since the self-builders chose to completely clad their walls on the outside. A layer of slurry protects the straw before the cladding is installed. Bois et Paille therefore cut and raised the structure and accompanied the project through the technical issues.

Wood and straw house located in Vendée. House with one floor, about 120m² habitable. A buffer space has been integrated to the north and serves as a storeroom/laundry room/toilet. It will be insulated in cellulose wadding; the rest of the house is of course insulated in straw bales; the self-builders have some work to do!

Detached house in GREB technique.

Accommodation, services for disabled adults.

House in double wood frame inside and outside in 14×14 with straw bales between posts. Presence of a phyto water purification basin.

Cyclopean foundations, single wall base, load-bearing straw walls, earth-straw plaster, steel roof for a small budget.

Wood frame house braced by lathes. Exterior douglas siding and interior earth rendering.

Wood frame house. Prefabricated load-bearing boxes in the workshop.

Detached house.

Insulation from the inside with small boots. The history of this house is a return to the family origins. The grandfather settled on this market garden property in 1905. The original building was a barn with a full height central bay giving access to side barges used as haylofts above the stables. The traditional framework … Read more

House built by professionals in a former workshop.Numerous accumulated experiences (insulation, solar, ventilation, water management…).

High performance timber frame house.

Detached house R+1.

School SCI Tillia. Bioclimatic wood frame house on old stone structure partially preserved.

Family home and reception of handicapped people. Double framework douglas wood/straw/earth, lime, pisé, BTC, straw panel, solar thermal heating and boiler wood, dry toilets, phyto-purification.

Wood frame house on sloping land, braced in agepan DWD, insulated with straw bales, plaster and earthen screeds.

Extension realized with the GREB technique.

Bioclimatic building with wooden structure and straw filling. Passive approach. Rainwater management.

Self-built GREB Technical House.

Bioclimatic house.

Extension of a pavilion on 2 levels and insulation from the outside of a gable wall of the existing construction. In the following data, the part described will be the extension. However, here is some information on the thermal insulation from the outside: wood frame added, small boots on field and strapped, lime coating.

Turnkey house.

Extraordinary to live, calm, breathing, healthy and noble (geobiological cleaning), shielded electricity.

Business premises.

This wooden and straw house in Deux-Sèvres has the particularity of having a large courtyard that protects its entire west side. A small courtyard to the north, with chestnut tree lathing, is used to store everything. Bois et Paille was involved in the pruning and lifting of the douglas beam post and beam structure. The … Read more

The second house in this eco-hamlet just got up! A post and beam house with straw bale insulation! The project brings together different ecological habitats (eco-shell, wooden houses, wooden and straw houses) and has received the necessary approvals for the installation of a phyto-purification system. This first Wood and Straw house is on one level. … Read more

With great support from friends and family, this load-bearing construction came into being. Rice straw was used for the bales, the source of which is about 15 km away from the construction site.

Floor slab, walls and roof insulated with straw bales. Some interior walls and floors were built with rammed earth.

Market garden and dwelling building in timber frame construction.

Non-conventional, straw construction, prefabricated in the workshop. BBC target. Reference in terms of sustainable housing in the Eure et Loir region using local and/or natural materials.

Housing built in 100% self-construction with participative building sites.

Agricultural building ordered by the town hall of La Riche on behalf of the AMAP of La Riche and for the installation of an organic farmer.

Contemporary house.

A family home, self-built by a carpenter by trade and his wife, who is also used to working on construction sites. A challenge, however, because a whole house is not just a few construction sites!

Wood frame extension, insulation of the walls in straw bales, external lime/sand rendering.