An adobe, straw bale and roundwood studio in
Taos, NM, USA.
This 1600 ft2 (148 m2) studio with an apartment,
greenhouse and meditation room is by
EDGE
Architects. It combines passive-solar design with adobe brick and insulating straw-bale walls to
keep a comfortable working and living space with little extra heating or cooling. When heat is needed it comes
from a radiant Russian Stove.
The heavy timber framing was built using Ponderosa Pine
which was
harvested from the burned mountainside of nearby Lama. The floors
are made from bamboo on the ground floor and locally harvested cedar
in the loft with the stairway's railing made from branches of
aspen. The shingled roof is made from recycled rubber. Greywater from the apartment is reused
in the greenhouse area just inside the south facing front door. The interior
is plastered with clay and finished with aliz (a clay slip) with natural
pigments.
