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More Straw Bale Building: A complete guide to designing and building with straw. Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers. ISBN 978-0-86571-518-9. Minke, Gernot; Krick, Benjamin (2021). Straw Bale Construction Manual: Design and Technology of a Sustainable Architecture. Basel/Berlin/Boston: Birkhäuser Verlag. ISBN 978-3-0356-1854-9.
This project, in collaboration with eco-pioneer Pliny Fisk, combined passive heating and cooling with broad resource, health and metabolism issues for a move toward sustainability. The first permitted straw bale building in California, it featured composting toilets and processed wastewater with an interior microbial bed filter/marsh system.
Adobe bricks made of clay, sand and straw, similar to cob, have long been used in the Southwest. More recently, hay bale houses have been constructed with walls made of insulating straw and a ...
The present-day sustainable architecture method of Straw-bale construction was pioneered in late-19th-century Nebraska with baling machines. The Spanish and later Mexican Alta California Ranchos and early American pioneers used the readily available clay to make adobe bricks, and distant forests' tree trunks for beams sparingly.
VINES unveils new offices, first commercial straw bale building in the Northeast VINES is a non-profit founded in 2007 to create and sustain community gardens and other food access programs in the ...
Earthbag Building. Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 2004. Kennedy, Joseph F. "Building With Earthbags." Natural Building Colloquium. NetWorks Productions. 14 Feb. 2007 Natural Building Colloquium. Aga Khan Development Network. "The Aga Khan Award for Architecture 2004." Sandbag Shelter Prototypes, various locations. 14 Feb. 2007 .
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.
Pilgrim Holiness Church is the oldest known straw-bale church in North America, [5] and one of three known to exist today. The others are a church built in 1954 near Sexsmith, Alberta, [10] and St. Francis in the Redwoods, built in 2007 in Willits, California. [11]