Make Architects took one of the most traditional building materials, straw, and elevated it into cutting edge, sustainable building technology. The Gateway Building at The University of Nottingham’s Sutton Bonington campus was built using prefabricated timber cassettes containing straw from the University’s own farm. Bringing together the School of Biosciences and the School of Veterinary…
read moreConversion and expansion of a single-story courtyard garage-building in Vienna to create a house and architectural office for AllmerMacke with 180 m2 total effective area while the ground-floor serves as a garage. “The use of straw bales ( as thermal insulation for the roof ) exemplifies the ecological access to the project. The topics of…
read moreBioBui(l)t Txema in Barcelona (opposite to the famous Richard Meyer Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona) is an urban “playground” for natural building materials as straw(bales), clay- and limeplaster, reed, hemp fibres, bamboo,… It is also a transition-, event-, workshop- and exhibition-place, where visitors or passengers passing by can freely enter and ask questions or participate…
read moreThe two buildings in this Robbiton Playground in Vienna (Wiener Kinderfreunde) with a total of about 100 m2 were made almost entirely of natural materials, the children at the playground were thereby included in all project phases: They collected ideas for the design, recorded and crafted the first models put on the site, built straw…
read moreFR: La nouvelle école Louise Michel d’Issy-les-Moulineaux fait appel à un matériau naturel: la paille. Le choix de la paille s’inscrit dans une approche environnementale. L’isolation de cette école est une innovation pour un bâtiment public de cette importance en France, technique jusqu’à présent utilisée pour des maisons individuelles uniquement. Sur une surface de 5…
read moreThis 5 story eco family house in Ijburg, Amsterdam, featuring prefab walls insulated with straw bales and finished with earth plaster, was planned by architect René Dalmeijer (former president of Strobouw Nederland). The first floor hosts a comfortable, private apartment.
read moreWe`d like to start a discussion, what is necessary, to build urban projects in a sustainable way, not just reducing energy-consumption or CO2, lets also think about social-, material-, agricultural-, renewable-, prefab-, community-matters. What are your ideas for a liveable city? Is sustainable urbanism more than building comunicative/participative places and passive-houses in a city? Is…
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