20 Jahre asbn und Strohballenbau - 20 years of Straw Bale Building

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How can an (organic) TinyHouse be built
as simply and affordable as possible using
straw construction? We published the idea
in 2016 but have not yet succeeded in
building one. The solution proposed here
separates the (reciprocal) roof construction
from the organic building, which can be
constructed as a round house or two-storey
vault using CUT technology or prefab-panels
for the construction. In 2021 we may have
the opportunity to build the prototype for this
in the STEP course.
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Construction industry is responsible for
1/3 of global energy consumption and
30% of global CO2 emissions: cement
production alone accounts for 7% of global
CO2 emissions, 40% of primary resources
consumed and 50% of the construction
waste generated. For a sustainable future,
we need to rethink building material and
redefine the construction market (and where
possible reuse secondhand materials). So we
will focus on cement-free alternative
foundations and it seems...
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What is the attraction of such organic
forms (like the bathroom by Javier
Senosiain in the picture)?
Is this "human" (our bodies are made up of
curved rather than straight lines) or natural
(for example Nautilus and Fibonacci spiral)
language of form simply more familiar to us?
What possibilities of furnishing and construction
with natural materials are there for
this kind of building? Does it have to be a
hobbit house? What does such a house look
like in detail?
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Interactive: In communication (such as in
this magazine) much more is possible. PDFs
can contain interactive elements (links,
video, audio) and here we must not lose
touch with each other (not only in Corona
times). The virtual reality will come and we
do not want to leave it to Google, we have to
find our own solutions... LINK 06
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How can prefabrication (prefab modules)
be combined with participation? Mike
Devéria has pursued this question in the
STEP training and has an amazingly simple
idea: every second module is prefabricated
for a wall of this round house. The panels
are thus set up at variable intervals as the
main load-bearing structure. Between the
modules, the missing part of the walls,
including the windows and doors, are filled
with straw bales and braced either in a
workshop or in self-construction.
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We are rethinking the virtual construction
site in Ravelsbach: for the practical part of
the STEP course the space in Baierdorf 6 is
no longer sufficient. Alternatives would be a
new training centre in the immediate vicinity
(Ravelsbach), the entire practice at
construction site workshops for clients as
before or we move with the practical part to
Gmünd, where Peter owns a plot of land of
about 6ha. Over the coming months we will
negotiate with investors and think about
financing possibilities...
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