Photos: Herbert Gruber/asbn In Hyllie in Malmö, the developer ETC Bygg built its largest project ever, a 12-storey...
Category - Straw Bale Lighthouse Project
Straw Bale-Roundhouse and Dome in Prague
Built in StrawHenge modular prefab technique by asbn/StrohNatur, this building consists of 2 storeys, first floor as...
Cohousing project “querbeet”
Multifamily project straw bales, directly plastered with clay & lime
Circular Tiny House Coburg
Student guest house at the design campus of Coburg University of Applied Sciences
Casa entre noguers, Banyoles
Prefabricated strawbale family house
UP STRAW Reference Buildings
VIDEOS from the straw insulated public buildings that have been constructed with the support of the Interreg project UP...
Holy Trinity Tulse Hill Straw Bale Build
Winner of two gold awards at the National Building & Construction Awards, for Sustainability and Community...
“House St. Wunibald” – Plankstetten Abbey
Largest straw bale building in Southern Germany: 3-storey multi-purpose building, used as guest house, kindergarten and...
Etablissement d’Alzon
The Emmanuel d’Alzon establishment presents several levels of spatial readings; that of urban sewing, which...
L’Orée du Jardin
“L’Orée du Jardin” is an emanation of its context. The relationship with its environment guides its...
Résilience
Info & Credits.
Casa AR, Torrefeta
straw bale single family house
Ferme du rail
The Ferme du Rail is the winner of the call for innovative urban projects “Reinventing Paris”, launched in...
Cohousing project “Speicherbogen”
Multifamily project straw bales, directly plastered with clay & lime
Hideaway under the stars
A short documentary of a natural build filmed and produced by Dewi Roberts. It was constructed using the local...
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.
Habitat collectif «Écoravie»
The Écoravie Association, created in March 2009, aims to bring together the future inhabitants of a collective...
Extension de l’école primaire
Construction of two classrooms (+ a hall and outdoor facilities) in wood frame on straw boxes; straw, wood wool and...
Straw bale house with Paideuma dome in Enzesfeld, AT
This detached house with Paideuma Klang-Dom was insulated with straw bales in spring 2017.
Ecole Maternelle Boutours
Load bearing big bale straw house
Woore Fruit Farm
A loadbearing family home and shop for a pick your own fruit farm designed by amazonails self built with courses by...
Ecole Victor Schoelcher Nursery School
Tertiary school buildings. The Victor Schoelcher School opened in September 2016. It is 100% eco-friendly. Construction...
Nijmegen Lent
residential building with 24 houses
Cohousing project “Libelle”
Multifamily project straw bales, directly plastered with clay & lime
Five-storey Competence Center for Sustainable Construction, Verden
Prefabricated timber frame construction with solid wood elevator shaft and stairwell.
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...
Groupe scolaire Louise Michel
The complex consists of 3 buildings: a clubhouse, the nursery school and the primary school. The environmental approach...
Lilac Co-Housing project
Lilac, 20 households of affordable co-housing made with pre-fab Modcell straw panels in 2013 designed by White Design
Kindergarten in Straw, Villingen-Schwenningen
Wooden plank stand construction with small bales, plastered on both sides.
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...
Pavilion with unplastered thatched façade
Experimental building by Paris Studio 1984 in Alsace, France, inspired by agricultural constructions.
Olst
earthship housing project
system|house in modular straw construction
The first project of the system|haus|bau cooperation with prefabricated modules (Kreativer Holzbau, Bauatelier Schmelz...
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...
Veghel
house
Low-energy house in Heidenreichstein
Single-family house with tested wall, ceiling and roof elements with carport and tool shed.
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...
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...
Lammas Ecovillage Roundhouse Simon Dale
According to DailyMail this Grand Design House burnt down in 2018. Photos: Granddesign / Dailymail
Cohousing project “Windrose”
Multifamily project straw bales, directly plastered with clay & lime
North Kesteven Council Houses Waddington
2 semi-detached 2 storey loadbearing council houses in Waddington, Lincs designed by & courses by amazonails 2008/9
Amsterdam Ijburg 2
residential building
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...
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...
Brenderup Primary School
The Adult Education Centre in Brenderup was founded in 1986, and the spectacular straw bale building with a hyperbolic...
Guesthouse “STROHTEL”
guesthouse project straw bales, directly plastered with clay & lime
S-House in Böheimkirchen, Lower Austria
An important goal in the S-HOUSE project was to combine ecological and functional advantages and to reduce energy and...
Straw bale clay passive house Tattendorf
The passive house concept chosen for the Tattendorf office building by natur & lehm (now Lopas AG) is the first in...
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...
Straw bale passive house in Wienerherberg
A beautiful straw bale house, which was also awarded the Golden Trowel in 2008. With straw-bale insulated floor slab on...
First Viennese Straw Bale House
Flat and studio of the architects allmermacke in Vienna 6. Here, the entire roof over the newly built studio was...
Spiral House, Ireland
Spiral shaped house & the first 2 storey loadbearing to be built in Europe Technical design and courses by Barbara Jones
Maison Feuillette
This building is the oldest wooden and straw construction in the world. Built in 1920, it was bought in 2013 by the...
Residence “Kranich”, Ecovillage Siebenlinden
Barrier-free straw bale house.
Groupe scolaire de la Haute Herbasse
School group made of adobe, wood and straw. Client: SIVOS de la Haute Herbasse. Commissioned architects: Design and...
Bâtiment contemporain à Blanden
individual housing
Offgrid-huset
Self-sufficient house with tunnel vault roof made by Steen Møller and students from Brenderup Hojskole, where the house...
Modcell’s Inspire Bradford Business Park
Inspire Bradford Business Park has been built on a brownfield site close to Eccleshill Community Hospital in Bradford...
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...
Switzerland’s first straw bale settlement
Photo: Damian Poffet The planned settlement is committed to sustainability in various respects. In addition to thoughts...