Less than a mile from Napa’s 2017 fire ravages, designer-builder John Swearingen of Skillful Means is constructing a curious house: one made of compact, industrial-strength straw bales. Homeowner ...

A University of Michigan green building class plans to unveil a sustainably-built, straw-bale house located at the Campus Farm next Monday, May 29. Led by Joseph Trumpey, an assistant professor of art ...

A mix of desert climate, high performance goals and the insight of a leader in sustainable design has yielded one of the first LEED Gold-certified straw-bale buildings in the world. Resource- and ...

The seven homes in Shirehampton, Bristol were constructed as part of an EU-funded joint research project with the University of Bath and the architectural firm Modcell. The team behind the project ...

The Eichler family - mom Monika, dad David, 5-month-old Elyse and six-year-old Lauren - live in a straw bale home in Leavenworth County just northeast of Lawrence. On the outskirts of David and Monika ...

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A straw bale house is made using straw as either a main structural element, insulation, or both. The buildings are constructed by stacking rows of compact straw bales on a strong foundation before ...

Straw bale houses of the western Nebraska prairies were comfortable places built where there were no trees or sod. In Lancaster County, straw - the leftover stalks of wheat, rye, oats or, sometimes, ...

When we moved into our house, there was a shed in the garden. Its timbers were rotten, the floor had long since disappeared into the ground, there was no door, the window had fallen out and various ...