STRAWBALES houses :D

PICTURES:
1-STRAW BALES HOUSES HOW THEY LOOKS LIKE
2-INSIDE WALL MADE BY STRAW,EUCALIPUS AND CLAY
3-PLASTIC BOTTLES ON THE ROOF

The beginning of september I started an amazing course about strawbales building, here in Tamera.
The aim of the progect was to build up 3 houses with strawbales (of course!) in 21 days!
Gernot Minkel was our professor. We had 3 intense workshop weeks. I learn a lot about eco-buildings and i have the grate chance to biuld up 3.
we whre abou 30 peple from 11 differnts nations working toghether. A lot of cooperation and mutual suppot , i will say ,it had ben the core of our succesful job.
We worked quite hard but in the end everyone was sutisfeded about what we did , Minkel too!
He was a greate teacher. He combined umility and power . He was always open for question and joyfull in his answers.
I don t know if everyone of you know what it means to biuld up a house with strabales but here there is some good reason for do it!.. enjoy! :)
Build with straw is:
-Sustenible: infact straw is a renewable builing material that will grow every year.
It' s a natural resource that doesn t cause any problem on term of its disposal. Build with straw isn t only a cheapest way of building but a proper frindly way of life. It is sustenible because hardly cause negative impact on the envirorment and consume little energy compared to others building materials (mineral wool consume 77 times more thatn straw) because straw absorb carbon dioxide during photosynthesis. Choosing straw it means to renunce to some more polluted material. Good to know there some country, for example Great Britain produce for milions of surplus of strawbales.
-Energy efficiency : more than fifty per cent of the pollution in our world is made by materials costruction and trasportation processes.
Building strawbales houses permit us to save money during the warming winter process because is one of the best material that could be use as isolation. Straw house create a confortable indoor climat. The poor heat storage capability and the external plaster (from 3 to 6 cm thick) gives a good climat eatrhs bricks with out humidity,also. This “new” way of costruction could redece the CO2 gas emmition on our planet in a considerable way!
-Good thermal isolation: even cheaper than a normal heating system, as we saw before. Str is greate because during the day the straw store the warm and it let it go during 24 hours.
-Good sound isolation: stra are also really good for sound isolation infact in USA a lot of music recording studios are made of strawbales. In Italy, for example, more and more buildings built by airport are made with this precious material with the aim to got good noise cheap isolation system.
-Good fire resistence: even if every one could thing that straw is not the best material agains fire we have to relize our self , infact , strawbaleshouses got areally hight fire resistance bacause it s plasered on both sides. Strawbales is even better than wooden houses. In germany and Austria strawbales walls got the “fire resistance rating of F90”. This was first established according to Australian builing standards.
-Low cost: At the moment straw produsction always have a surplus that make it really cheap. Straw is also condidered as waste material. Normaly it cost around 1.60 euro per bale. Let' s thing about a normal home with two floors, two bedrooms... we will need approximatly 520 bales that it means 830 euro, comparet to normal material we will save something like sixthousen euros!
Build up strawbales house is easy compare to a conditional way that it means that we will save money also for the buiding process.
The most significant econmical saving it came from the heating on long term point of view, infact compare to a normal biuling we could save the 75% of money that we normally use for warm our homes.
-Healty structure: a good straw , better if organic, doesn' t cause any allergic reaction. It s raccomanded only during the buildin process, for this persons how got dust allegies sholud there for wear a breathing protection mask. Occupants of a completed build with rendered walls will not face any risk. Straw doesn t have any harmful tranpiration ,like normal material do (formaldehyde) , and got tranpiration system. Live inside strawbales home is also good for our “spirit” at first for the good sound isolation and also the baeuty that sprauts!
-”Free creativity structure”: Build your house with strawbales give you also the possibility to do it by your own that s permit you to create interaction in between the pertecipant of the building process. Mostly straw builing side are much more happy than a normal one, even children could be good support and find the right place in the builing process. Build with straw is a greate social experience. I KNOW IT!
During the process we also use recicling material like for example plastic bottles for the roof and the floor as isolation system , we collected corck from the area (there s a lot all aroud) and we fix it in between strabales holes...

...so know that i know how it works i just need people, one day, for build up my own one :)
ciau!