If you want to build an efficient home, straw bales are a great choice. The high insulation factor means it costs less to heat or cool a house made of straw than certain alternatives. The material has a natural trombe effect, allowing it to store heat or coolness and release it to keep...
Presents an article on building an energy-efficient house made of straw-bales. Simplicity of the house design; Process involved in laying the foundation for the house; Challenge faced in raising the roof over the bale walls; Rewards and lessons brought by the straw-bale building project. INSET...
little pigs and the big bad wolf that blew down a house made of straw and one made of sticks.The only house left standing was the one made of bricks.Now there is new evidence to suggest that houses built with bales(捆)of straw can be very strong....
题目 There is a tale that straw is the worst material from which to build a house, particularly if you are a pig with a hungry wolf around. So the cards were stacked against Warren Brush when local officials learned that he had several buildings made of straw bales (大捆) on his land....
House of bales (straw mud and stone) The idea: build an environmentally friendly, passive solar house in the hills, with a small ecological footprint that will keep us warm in winter, cool in summer. The solution: Strawbale, mudbrick, stone house in the Adelaide hills. The challenge: Ke...
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reduce constructive solution to the very few that the project needed. as a single architectural entity the perimeter wall is entirely made with straw-bales. we would like to get the continuity of the perimeter and prove the versatility of the material if carefully protected. the main wooden ...
Strawbale constructed buildings that use straw bales for the principal wall material will spend about ten percent of the total building materials cost on the straw bales themselves. Rapid assembly of the building as its building blocks are large Ability to use low-skilled labor for home constructio...
IT took all Peter Wright's powers of persuasion to convince council planners he wasn't grasping at straws.Daily Mail (London)
Straw Bale House Calculator: How many bales do you need? Once you’ve got your design nailed down, the next step is to start looking at materials, and that’s where a straw bale house calculator comes in handy! As part of your materials ordering and estimating process, how many straw ba...