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Straw Bale House
A two storey structural straw bale house using the local vernacular for the North elevation - it looks like a traditional cob house from the area with a contemporary glazed South elevation and car port. South and Western walls have a rain screen in front of the straw bale walls to protect them from Cornwall's horizontal rain.
A very environmentally sensitive house - a code level 4 BREEAM 'sustainable home' that neverthless looks beautiful
Materials: Oak,larch, chestnut & douglas fir frame; granite plinth; structural straw bale walls earth & lime rendered; some timber panel walls; Spanish slate walls
Design: Matt Robinson
Main Contractor: Workshop of Matt Robinson (timber frame walls and straw bale)
Cob Contractor: Cob in Cornwall, rendering & plastering
Stonework Contractor: Paul the wall
Built: 2006-2008
Straw Bale House
A two storey structural straw bale house using the local vernacular for the North elevation - it looks like a traditional cob house from the area with a contemporary glazed South elevation and car port. South and Western walls have a rain screen in front of the straw bale walls to protect them from Cornwall's horizontal rain.
A very environmentally sensitive house - a code level 4 BREEAM 'sustainable home' that neverthless looks beautiful
Materials: Oak,larch, chestnut & douglas fir frame; granite plinth; structural straw bale walls earth & lime rendered; some timber panel walls; Spanish slate walls
Design: Matt Robinson
Main Contractor: Workshop of Matt Robinson (timber frame walls and straw bale)
Cob Contractor: Cob in Cornwall, rendering & plastering
Stonework Contractor: Paul the wall
Built: 2006-2008
