The Straw Bale House

Athena Swentzell Steen, Bill Steen, David Bainbridge (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2013
Chelsea Green Publishing Co (Verlag)
978-0-930031-71-8 (ISBN)

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Imagine building a house with superior seismic stability, fire resistance, and thermal insulation, using an annually renewable resource, for half the cost of a comparable conventional home. Welcome to the straw bale house! Whether you build an entire house or something more modest-a home office or studio, a retreat cabin or guest cottage-plastered straw bale construction is an exceptionally durable and inexpensive option. What's more, it's fun, because the technique is easy to learn and easy to do yourself. And the resulting living spaces are unusually quiet and comfortable.The Straw Bale Housedescribes the many benefits of building with straw bales:

super insulation, with R-values as high as R-50
good indoor air quality and noise reduction
a speedy construction process
construction costs as low as $10-per-square-foot
use of natural and abundant renewable resources
a better solution than burning agricultural waste straw, which creates tons of air pollutants

Bill Steen is a photographer and collaborative builder who is especially interested in combining building techniques with community-enhancing approaches to design. Athena and Bill are co-founders of the Canelo Project, through which they conduct ecological design and construction workshops in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. They live in Canelo, Arizona. Visit Athena and Bill's Blog, The Canelo Chronicles at www.caneloproject.com. David A. Bainbridge first worked on community design, passive solar heating and cooling, building codes, and solar rights at the innovative design firm Living Systems. He described his first water-wall solar home and the Village Homes solar subdivision in Solar House Designs in 1978. Founder of the Passive Solar Institute, and recipient of the ASES Passive Pioneer Award in 2004, Bainbridge consults on a wide range of residential and commercial projects and has completed several solar projects on his own homes, as well as co-authoring The Straw Bale House (with Athena Swentzell Steen and Bill Steen), and Passive Solar Architecture (with Ken Haggard). He is currently Associate Professor of Sustainable Management at the Marshall Goldsmith School of Management. He lives in San Diego, California.

1. A brief history

2. Benefits of straw-bale construction

3. Common concerns

4. Working with straw bales

5. Bale walls

6. Windows and doors

7. Foundations

8. Roofs

9. Floors

10. Interior elements

11. Finishing bale walls

12. Other uses for straw bales

13. Designing the straw bale house

Erscheint lt. Verlag	18.6.2013
Zusatzinfo	Index; Bibliography; Illustrations, black and white; Illustrations, color
Verlagsort	White River Junction
Sprache	englisch
Maße	204 x 254 mm
Gewicht	794 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Immobilien / Grunderwerb
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Technik ► Bauwesen
ISBN-10	0-930031-71-7 / 0930031717
ISBN-13	978-0-930031-71-8 / 9780930031718
Zustand	Neuware