Straw bale house timelapse - www.hartwyn.co.uk
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- čas přidán 14. 05. 2017
- Brief
This project in Powys, Wales was set in a small clearing in an Ash (Fraxinus excelsior) woodland. The client wanted to blur the lines between interior and exterior and create something that fits into the landscape. The house had to be eco-friendly, healthy to live in and affordable.
Design
The project is 30sqm internally, with a 12.5sqm mezzanine. Budget was £45,000.
To achieve the brief we used large glass sliding doors on the South and West sides. The open plan nature of the space gives a larger feel and keeps the connection to the outside throughout the house. A large wrap around deck is soon to be constructed to further connect inside and outside space.
Local materials and materials traditional to the area were used. Lots of wooden features echo the surrounding, much left with the waney edge left on and all sourced from the local area.
Materials
The building was plastered with site clay and local sand. Externally we added welsh lime to increase durability to the wet climate. Insulation came from wheat straw, baled by a local farmer, welsh sheep wool and Thermofloc recycled newspaper cellulose. Locally grown sedum is growing on the green roof. The foundations utilise car tyres, a waste product, rammed with gravel to provide a low cost, non permeable, soid footing for the building.
Due to the tight budget, the use of reclaimed materials was key. Bathroom tiles, sinks, taps, windows and flooring were all salvaged from building sites or found second hand.
Method
Because of our unique intern build method, we were able to utilise the materials on site and recondition the reclaimed materials. The interns received hands-on experience and education in natural building and green design in return for some good hard work. This meant that the project stayed on budget and used the most sustainable local materials.
good work, God bless y'all
Perfect job!!! Nice plaster outside the wal,am so happy to see happy people😉💪have plan to build 3 house like yours at one time,in poland i hope have fuun like you thanks for video and enjoy healty living good sleep low cost heating in this home.💪🙂
Interesting substitute using tires as a foundation instead of earthbags. Nice build overall.
Fantastic 😊
Thanks very much for this video and info.
Great job !
Theree is a house just to the North East of Nara Visa, New Mexico that is also built out of hay bales. What makes the house interesting is it was built when stage coaches were around. It had windows no wider than say 2 inches and about 4 feet tall (just wide enough to get a gun barrel through the slit window. So bale house is nothing new. They have been around for centuries
I think I got this correct, but I'm not sure... You built the bottom plate, and the top plate directly on to of that, raised the top plate with temporary framing, built the roof, built the load bearing walls, and then dropped the top plate and roof onto the walls... I'm guessing used straps to compress the bales at that point
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Hopefully there is cement in those tires. If not they shift. Are you using lime plaster.
If you build non-load baring walls do you still have to compress bales before stucco?
How warm is it in winter and because UK weather are very moist almost through out the year except summer of course how is the wall holding up in longevity
Straw bale walls hold up well in the UK climate. We have reasonably high humidity all year round.
I like the foundation. I wonder if this could be built in a way that is seismically safe.
Scott Dunlap Speaking of seismically safe- check this out.
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Yes. Build it in an earthquake free area😁😁😁😁
i would say the foundation and roof could be made better at insulating or storing heat.
Does it meet building codes in your country? Especially the tire piers.
Yes it does!
Gabion foundations are an accepted form of foundation. Our gabions are round!
yeah.. please explain the tires.
Great work!! Great crew! Congrats! Also good music , who's the artist?? Louis Armstrong? :-)
Thank you! Music is by Fat Domino
@@hartwyn7041 Fats Waller .....nice house👍
Dear all, that is a very nice video where I could see the way how to build load bearing walls with first the roof. I am wondering if it could work for me : 60 sqm.
I have a question : could you please tell me how roof edge is beared ? Thank you very much. It was really usefull for me
Daniel Beaufils it looks like an in fill and not load bearing. So the wooden frame was built first and this what is taking the load not the straw bales. Happy for someone to disagree but that's what it looked like from the video
Yes, you are certainly right. I thought that the corner boards they put at the begining had 2 roles : allow to align the bales in the corner but also to bear the frame on which the roof is seating. In addition I saw the roof going down, exactly when they remove these boards (minute 1:10 to 1.11) but it might be a camera resetting. To go towards your sayings I think the structure is inside the house. Very clever anyway, so that there is no bale resizing to perform. Does anybody has a solution to mount the roof first on a straw bale load bearing wall ? Thank you
I worked on one in Australia. We didn't mount the roof directly but did on the upper ladder and then hoisted it down on top of the bales. The roof in theory could be mounted on top of the upper ladder and then lower down. You then leave it to compress and then ratchet down over a week to allow for natural settling
Thanks for your answer Jon. So if I get your point bales have been raised not covered by the roof ? It seems that Baraba Jones in the UK build the roof first over a rough outside structure and then with a game of several corners allows the roof (I guess linked to the top ladder) to go slowly down on to the bales. But for the moment I don't know how it works.
Hi Daniel. This is a load bearing house. The roof was built first, and securely propped up on the window posts and at the corners. This was done when we just had the wall plate in the air, not when the weight of the roof rafters were on it.
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Tires may not be the best foundation/ supports for long-term use
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