Building with earth - Gernot MINKE (1)

School at Solvig, Järna, Sweden
The two-storey building belongs to the
building complex of a Waldorf school. It
contains two classrooms, each with a small
entrance hall.
The basement walls are built of two layers
of 15-cm-wide lightweight concrete blocks
and 20 cm intervals, the cavities being filled
with perlite for thermal insulation. The first
floor has 50-cm-wide load-bearing walls
of solid loam loafs, topped by a timber ring
beam . The loafs were formed by hand from
local clayey soil following the rules of the
Dünne loam loaf technique, described in
chapter 8.
The roof is carried by a timber frame structure,
isolated by turf and covered by stone
slate shingles.
The rooms are heated by open fireplaces.
Architect: Mats Wedberg, Hallstavik, Sweden
Completion: 1993
Area: 140 m 2
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