A Complete Guide to Straw Bale Building

Rikki Nitzkin, Maren Termens

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Permanent Publications
01 October 2023

Sustainability; Building construction & materials; DIY: carpentry & woodworking

A comprehensive hands-on guide for builders both self-builders and professionals and an essential handbook for designers that includes many construction details.

Straw bale buildings are warm in winter and cool in summer. The natural materials used create beautiful healthy homes that also have a low environmental impact. Highly affordable for self-builders, in professional construction, the relationship between quality, price, and long-term savings can easily be achieved. Straw bale is also especially suited to community-based projects as it generates curiosity and often needs groups of enthusiastic volunteers.

This complete guide gives detailed descriptions about how straw bales react to different applications and enables anyone to design and build these natural homes in different climates.

Included are: .

Step-by-step instructions for many processes .

Tips, tricks, advice and warnings .

Over 600 photos, drawings and diagrams .

Materials, tools and building techniques .

Solutions to common problems .

Plans for a practice straw bale building

Since every build is unique (availability of materials, skills, budget, climate etc.), many different and varied building techniques are explained. Self-builders will learn a vast array of skills and the confidence to build their own, while professionals will be enabled to successfully incorporate bale building into their portfolios.

AUTHORS: Rikki Nitzkin found her way to straw bale when building her own home in the Catalan Pyrenees.

Maren Termens has a degree in Technical Architecture and found straw bale building after volunteering with Institut Tecnològic de la Construcció. Together they founded the Red de Construcción Con Paja (Spanish Straw Building Network) and have since built many buildings and taught over 100 workshops.

Full colour photographs and diagrams throughout

By: Rikki Nitzkin, Maren Termens
Imprint: Permanent Publications
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 275mm, Width: 222mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 1.025kg
ISBN: 9781856233132
ISBN 10: 1856233138
Pages: 312
Publication Date: 01 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Unspecified

Rikki Nitzkin found her way to straw bale when building her own home in the Catalan Pyrenees. Maren Termens has a degree in Technical Architecture and found straw bale building through the Institut Tecnologic de la Construccio. Together they founded the Red de Construccion Con Paja (Spanish Straw Building Network) and have since built many buildings and taught over 100 workshops.

Reviews for A Complete Guide to Straw Bale Building

""For the un-initiated it is a beautiful initiation into the ecology and art of natural building, for the self-builder it is a support team full of technical guidance, and for the professional builders and designers it conveys every critical detail that is needed for high quality build and longevity.""—Alex Cicelsky, Founder and Designer, Center for Creative Ecology