Building with earth - Gernot MINKE (1)

Three-family house, Stein on the
Rhine, Switzerland
The building is a three-storeyed post-andbeam
structure that is planked with diagonal
buttressing sheathing. The outer walls
bear an exterior lime plastering on lightweight
wood wool construction slabs,
behind which lies a 12-cm-thick cellulose
insulation. The insides of the exterior walls
consist of 20-cm-thick rammed lightweight
woodchip shaving loam coated with loam
plastering. The weather-exposed gable is
provided with rear-ventilated larch wood
sheathing. The inner walls are filled in with
adobes. The brick roof and the balcony project
outward so that the southern rooms are
shadowed in summer, yet admit sunlit
in wintertime.
Design: Michael Nothelfer, Überlingen, Germany
Completion: 1997
Area: Basement level: 82 m 2
Ground floor: 118 m 2
Attic storey: 108 m 2
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