Straw Bale Workshop

Last week, Tom from our office participated in the Building with Straw workshop at the AA, Architectural Association in Bedford Square, London.

The course has been led by the School of Natural Building, with Barbara Jones. See their work for further information: https://schoolofnaturalbuilding.co.uk and https://strawworks.co.uk.

The program has been a mix of theory and practice and lasted for 4 days.

We can't wait to implement the newly acquired knowledge in our next project!

Pictures by: Ciaran Malik.

On foto one with Matthew Duckett from Buro Happold. (https://www.burohappold.com/)

Some of the topics were:

Why build naturally, straw bale construction methods + benefits, short history, bale plans, breathability.

Straw Bale building covering bale customising, compression, best practices etc. Using a 2 x 1.5 bale rigs.

Natural Plasters, Clay, The lime Cycle, practicalities and considerations.

Natural Plasters: Preparing SB walls, mixing clay and lime plaster, practical plastering.