Archive for the ‘research’ Category
Please Send Me Photos
Hello everyone. I’m putting out a call for photos of your straw bale homes. I am looking to get a large library of straw bale photos to help promote this beautiful technique. I recently went on to Facebeook and created a group called “Straw Bale Workshops” (http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=47715717755) that will be a gathering place for past, present and future workshop participants. In the process, I found some other straw bale groups and looked through their pages. Most have very unfortunate pictures of straw bale projects that do not represent how beautiful this type of construction really is. I want to show people how amazing these homes can be and the best way to do that is by gathering and sharing pictures from all over the world.
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Could Rice Straw be the Answer to Building with Bales in Humid Climates?
I received the following blog post on my old blog (that blog is no longer active so i can’t respond there). It started me thinking about rice straw and humid climates and I noticed that many of the humid climates are actually where rice grows and thrives. To that end, I wondered if it might really be possible to build with bales in a humid climate if the bales were rice straw. I am not in a position to undertake this study, but want to present a challenge to you all:
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