Straw is a renewable, local, healthy resource with great insulating power. Luckily, France is a major producer of cereals and has no shortage of straw… Straw is therefore the ideal material to build passive or positive energy buildings in France. CQFD. In this book, the author presents the main characteristics of straw, the regulatory and normative context applicable to this material, and the different types of construction systems using straw in all its forms. Then, through some forty examples of individual or collective buildings selected mainly in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Great Britain, the author illustrates all the construction techniques. Straw is used either as an insulating filling material, or as a structural and therefore load-bearing material, or as a combination of both. The following are described: self-supporting structural straw, hybrid straw-supporting techniques and complementary structures, straw – framework – rendering collaboration, straw-filled caissons, use of straw in bulk, straw concretes, interior and exterior straw insulation for rehabilitation or new buildings. 15 individual dwellings – 6 collective dwellings – 4 tertiary buildings – 3 educational buildings – 1 industrial building – 7 establishments receiving the public – 3 agricultural buildings – 1 sports facility.
Author: Floissac, Luc
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