A timber frame construction and its window and door boxes are planked with structurally stiffening OSB boards. Then the...
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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...
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...
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...
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Freestanding passive house
Insulated with straw chaff as blow-in insulation (in this sense not really a straw "bale" house).
Low-energy house in Heidenreichstein
Single-family house with tested wall, ceiling and roof elements with carport and tool shed.
Bruckner Single-family house
Detached single-family house in massive passive house construction with straw insulation in the roof, EKZ according to...
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House in Greb technique in total self-construction. Construction carried out in family. Flat attic insulation made of...
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Insulation straw, cellulose, wood wool. Lime coatings on straw bales.
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Two twin houses of 117m². Metal frame and straw compressed walls.
North Kesteven Council Houses Waddington
2 semi-detached 2 storey loadbearing council houses in Waddington, Lincs designed by & courses by amazonails 2008/9
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
Load-bearing straw house with big bales near Feldbach
Cohousing project “Windrose”
Multifamily project straw bales, directly plastered with clay & lime
Office building BM Höller
The office building of Baumeister Ing. Jürgen Höller GmbH was built as a passive house in brick construction, the pent...
Straw with a difference
Not straw bales but chopped straw is blown into the Lopas prefabricated houses, thus also achieving fire safety and...
Amsterdam Ijburg 2
residential building
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The shed covers the market gardening activities and the market gardener’s house. Between the main post and beam...
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Family house, on a plot of 4000 m². Project of autonomy in water, energy and food, but partially realized.
Bühel 740
The objective in planning the new office building was to construct a sustainable, building biology-optimised building...
Residence with Load-bearing Big Bales, Weimar
Two-story semi-detached house made of load-bearing big bales.
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House with post and beam structure with bales of straw stacked flat and coated with earth.
Passive house in Ollersbach / Lower Austria
Passive house in timber frame construction with straw bale insulation, solid wood ceiling and flat roof
Passive house in Leibnitz
New brick building, passive house, with straw bales attached to the façade, which were then plastered directly.
Dross: Viticulture farm building
A company building with straw bale insulation was developed for the Buchegger-Mayr winery. The wine cellar was...
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.
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...
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...
Straw bale passive house in Seitenstetten
Ecological materials (no PU foam, plastic-free wall construction...): wood, straw bales, clay plaster, hemp, sheep's...
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It is an insulated house made of large bales of straw (80×80), with a framework of Douglas fir posts and beams, a...
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...
Roof insulation in Tyrol
The straw bales were covered with a layer of clay for fire protection.
Nieuweschans
renovation
Seminar building Bugday
Load-bearing seminar building for the organic farmers' association Bugday near Istanbul. Planning and execution:...
Workshop LaBoa in Belf Venice
Load-bearing small demonstration straw bale construction on car tyre foundation with curved walls, built in a workshop...
Strawbalewall / Straw bale wall
This straw bale wall in the gardens of Capel Manor College in Enfield, UK is not just a privacy screen, it is a...
Revitalisation of a barn into a straw bale office
This harmonious office, which also serves as a seminar and presentation room for the asbn workshops, was created...
Passive House Fink
This straw-bale passive house in Gleisdorf was awarded the 2009 Styrian Wood Construction Prize.
Straw bale passive house in Wels / Upper Austria
The bales are installed vertically between the transoms. The bales were installed in the horizontal wall before the...
Schmidlin House, Wahlen near Laufen
Interesting load-bearing straw bale building with large bales on the ground floor and small bales on the upper floor.
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...
strawbalehouse Allentsteig
Straw-bale insulated gym extension in a public school, planned by Wolfgang Tillich at the Office of the Lower Austrian...
Biohof Achleitner / Upper Austria: Austria’s longest straw wall
The building was constructed in passive house quality. The hall was built as a special wooden construction with straw...
Passive House Perchtoldsdorf / Lower Austria
Series wall suitable for passive houses built as part of a House of the Future project by Ökologie-Institut, ConsultS...
Sommelsdijk
residential building inside a barn
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...
Markelo
art studio
Spiral House, Ireland
Spiral shaped house & the first 2 storey loadbearing to be built in Europe Technical design and courses by Barbara Jones
Strohbau Mlada Boleslav
Experimental building with raised textile roof and unrendered straw bale façade in front of a solid brick building core.
Passive House Kurtatsch/South Tyrol
The Passivaus by architects Margareta Schwarz (Italy) and Werner Schmidt (Switzerland) was the winner of the "Klimahaus...
Passive single-family house near Rohrau
The cubic structure of the residential wing is compact and simply proportioned with a projecting flat roof. Instead of...
Low-energy house Maria Laach / Lower Austria
Strawhome “Bösel-1”
Single family project straw bales, directly plastered with clay & lime
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...
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.
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 house Siebenhirten / Lower Austria
2-storey single-family house in timber frame construction with round timber studs
Straw bale vault school in Abybro
Unique straw bale construction with vaulted ceilings and cordwood walls built by Den Økologiske Landbrugsskole.
Le Guern House, Morbihan
A building with round walls constructed using the Gagné technique (mortared strawbale - straw bales in a cement grid)...
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 –...
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The choice of materials and construction was made with full knowledge of the facts and self-construction was emphasized...
Bâtiment contemporain à Blanden
individual housing
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...
Self-built home in Madrid
145m2 home, self-built with CUT technique and professional support.
Offgrid-huset
Self-sufficient house with tunnel vault roof made by Steen Møller and students from Brenderup Hojskole, where the house...
Gymnase Bon Lait
Omnisports gymnasium aiming at efficiency and energy sobriety through the choice of sustainable materials.
Salle de loisirs «La paillère»
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Straw bale addition in Langenlebarn, Lower Austria
Extension with foam glass bag foundation and pallets, interior with reed mats and clay plaster
Straw Bale Hobbit House with Green Roof in Sweden
In Kojtet near Linköping, a CUT construction was built around the existing supporting structure, straw bales were...