Mas Franch Permaculture Centre

Mas Franch Permaculture Centre
Written by Herbert Gruber

The community centre was built using round timber post and beam construction, with the straw bales plastered directly with clay.

Project Data

Place:Olot Completion:2008 Construction:roundwood-posts, CUT construction Design:RCP Straw Builder:RCP: Maren Termens, Rikki Nitzkin, Valentina Maini Tom Rijven Visitable:Yes Press photos:Yes
Self Building:Workshop, Selbstbau
U-Value (Wall):W/m2K U-Value (Roof):W/m2K Categories: Projects Spain,

Das Gemeinschaftszentrum wurde in Rundholzständerbauweise errichtet, die Strohballen direkt mit Lehm verputzt. Das Gründach, ausgeführt als reziprokes Dach oder Mandala-Dach, ist mit Schafwolle gedämmt.
Der Bau kann als Low-Budget-Experimentalbau gesehen werden.

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.