A straw bale house suited to a life in a very close contact with nature and seasons, low cost, and with high level of energy efficiency.
Projects Italy
This category is under construction: more straw bale houses will follow soon.
Holiday units Esser-Unterholzner
Load-bearing straw bale construction with large bales that were plastered directly. The floor slab is also insulated with straw bales.
Workshop LaBoa in Belf Venice
Load-bearing small demonstration straw bale construction on car tyre foundation with curved walls, built in a workshop of the Italian straw bale network LaBoa with students.
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 2003” award in the “A plus” category.
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 height, weighing 320 kg. wall thicknesses of 1.25m