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The Natural Building Collections of Straw Bale, Cob, Timber Frame and Stone homes around the World.

             

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Straw bale homes around the world

 

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This is Heidi's cottage, 'Elaman Puu'. It's built with a variety of natural building techniques with a rubble trench, earthbag stem walls dressed in stone, birch bark damp-proof membrane beneath the straw bales on the northern walls with cob and cordwood to the south and a reciprocal roof on a roundwood frame. More...

 
   

Poula-Line built her straw bale home in Fri & Fro ecoVillage in Egebjerg, Denmark. It's one of a collection of unique straw bale homes in the village. Her home was inspired by a conch shell she found on a beach in Malaysia. Poula, just like Rachel, lived in a small straw bale cabin on her land while she built her home. More...

 
   

Rachel lived off-grid in a shed in her woodland, carrying water from a local spring, using candlelight, a gas stove and a compost loo. She loved it, but the shed was small, so she built a straw bale extension. From this humble start she has built an iconic home winning the 2009 Grand Designs eco-house award. More...

 
   

This is a repurposed village. Many of the oak frame wattle & daub cottages in Wherwell, England were built in the early 16th century using reclaimed materials from Wherwell Abbey after Henry VIII disbanded it. More...

 
   

It took Charlie about a year to build his straw bale home in Pembrokeshire, Wales. The house cost about £15,000 ($24,000) to build with help from the nearby Lammas ecoVillage. It uses a reciprocal roof on a circular henge of roundwood timbers. More...

 
   

This is the bathroom at Laughing House with a wonderful mosaic that reaches into the deep windowsill where light reflects softly into the room on the edges of the reveals. The whole house is a master class in A Pattern Language. More...