Straw house construction

A sustainable building material wins favor on multiple fronts.

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As a rule, we make sure our clients are interested in sustainability and design in equal parts, and ideally, our clients are also fun, intelligent, and engaged. When we met Bernie and Erika at a cafe near our office four years ago, our firm was incredibly busy, and it didn’t seem possible to add another project to our schedule. When the couple described their goals for the house and their property two blocks from the ocean in an eclectic neighborhood in Santa Cruz, Calif., we hesitated…

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Durra Panel – A compressed straw building panel

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Image 2 of 19 from gallery of SCL Straw-Bale House / Jimmi Pianezzola Architetto. Photograph by Alberto Sinigaglia

the increasing shortages of resources like wood are pushing french locals to use straw as an alternative building foundation. The post future homeowners in france are now looking into “straw houses” appeared first on designboom | #architecture & design magazine.

Image 19 of 19 from gallery of SCL Straw-Bale House / Jimmi Pianezzola Architetto. Elevations

It was important to Julia and John to build a house in a way that was respectful of the environment and that would be sustainable to live in long-term. It took three years from when they started building to before they were able to move in, but it's because they did nearly all the work themselves.