Sumit Singhal Sumit Singhal loves modern architecture. He comes from a family of builders who have built more than 20 projects in the last ten years near Delhi in India. He has recently started writing about the architectural projects that catch his imagination.
Straw bale house by Brian Balfern Waite
March 17th, 2015 by Sumit Singhal
Article source: Brian Balfern Waite
A strawbale insulated, easily erected self-build home that is available as a kit.
It is a simple structure intended to exploit the cost savings of mass production yet flexible enough to cater for many situations.
The design of the structure has been reduced to basically one curved lightweight rib beam which are paired together to form a cruck ‘A’ frame. This cruck is then repeated every meter (bale length) for whatever length of building is required. So the length is infinite, the interior floor width is 5 to 7 meter on two levels, the height is also variable.
Every bale is supported to eliminate settlement and every bale is covered by the roofing which, together with a passive drought system, enables the building to cope with exposed locations.
The vaulted interior is totally free of structural restrictions and so can be divided, or not, to the owners needs.
This entry was posted
on Tuesday, March 17th, 2015 at 12:17 am.
You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
email
Facebook
Twitter
RSS Feed
