Le Guern House, Morbihan

Le Guern House, Morbihan
Written by Herbert Gruber

A building with round walls constructed using the Gagné technique (mortared strawbale – straw bales in a cement grid) and a wooden post and beam construction. Even though it is no longer built this way today because of the many thermal bridges, this almost historic building is an example of the diversity of straw bale construction techniques.

Project Data

Place:Morbihan Completion:1986 Construction:outside timber&frame construction, Gagné-technique Design:Pascal Thepaut Straw Builder:Pascal Thepaut Visitable:No Press photos:No
Self Building:Selbstbau des Eigners
U-Value (Wall):W/m2K U-Value (Roof):W/m2K Categories: Hybrid System, Projects France,

A building with round walls constructed using the Gagné technique (mortared strawbale – straw bales in a cement grid) and a wooden post and beam construction. Even though it is no longer built this way today because of the many thermal bridges, this almost historic building is an example of the diversity of straw bale construction techniques. And what is particularly interesting here is the construction detached from the (load-bearing straw bale walls, with which one can easily have such load-bearing buildings statically calculated and approved.

About the author

Herbert Gruber

Herbert is author of the book "Neues Bauen mit Stroh in Europa" (New Building with Straw in Europe), head of the austrian strawbale network ASBN and partner in the Leonardo-project "STEP" (Strawbale Training for European Professionals) and the Erasmus project "BuildStraw Pro" (a project to get formal national recognition of the training) and "Make your City Smart". As a collector he documents European straw bale buildings since 1999 on his website (database, german), in lectures, workshops and books.