Straw Home Hawke's Bay

An Office Retreat in Pink

 

Here Pat trialed a strawbale building technique used by a French Builder (Tom Rijven). The bales were dunked into a clay slip, a chase was cut out and horizontal battens were put in between each layer of bales. Nils had the chance to add a bit to the house by building the window and door frames which were fitted with reused sashes.

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Features:

• Pole shed structure

• Earthbag ring foundation between poles to retain floor.

• Earthern floor

• Strawbale walls, south wall with ply cladding

• Clay basecoat and as finish coat on the inside

• Lime finsh on the exterior wall with Silicate paint

• Interior colored clay paint

• Solar array on roof that supplies most of the power for the office and main dwelling.

• Loft space created with recycled hardwood and round-wood taken from the property