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A History of the Straw Bale Resurgence at The Last Straw - a journal about straw bale building and other alternative forms of construction. Rawlinson, Linnie. Artist Gordon Smedt's straw-bale house Archived 2011-03-16 at the Wayback Machine , feature on CNN.com, 13 August 2007.
A truth window in a strawbale house. A truth window with no covering. A truth window (or truth wall [1]) is an opening in a wall surface, created to reveal the layers or components within the wall. [2] [3] In a strawbale house, a truth window is often used to show the walls are actually made from straw bales.
Hale County's lack of building code enforcement allowed Mockbee and his students to experiment with unusual and innovative materials and construction techniques, including the use of straw-bale construction and salvaged automobile windows, to create durable, well-designed structures at minimal cost, which would require documentation and ...
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers project manager John Henderson walks across straw bales separating a stand of living and dead trees on an island in the Mississippi River near Prairie du Chien.
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It appears as if tiny homes could be the solution to a very big problem. Portland Mayor Charlie Hales is preparing to endorse the construction of a number of 192 square foot houses on publicly ...
Straw bale construction is a more modern concept, but there exists evidence that straw was used to make homes in African prairies as far back as the Paleolithic times. [2] Alternative natural materials, specifically their applications, have only recently made their way into more common use.
The Straw Bale House, 1994). Using a straw bale in-fill sandwich roof greatly increases the R value. This compares very favorably with the R-19 (RSI-3.35) of a conventional 2 x 6 insulated wall. When using straw bales for construction, the bales must be tightly-packed and allowed to dry out sufficiently.