Handbuch Strohballenbau. Grundlagen - Konstruktionen - Beispiele
Gernot Minke, Benjamin Krick
Straw has been rediscovered in recent years as an inexpensive building material with very good thermal insulation properties. The authors describe the construction methods and structural features that are important when dealing with straw as a building material, and they show concrete and practical constructions and execution details with which well-insulated and durable dwellings can be built from straw bales. In addition: tips on the surface treatment of the walls, concrete instructions for the construction process and descriptions of many examples that have already been realized. Dr.-Ing. Benjamin Krick is an architect and lecturer in ecological building. He wrote his doctoral thesis on straw bale construction and now works at the Passive House Institute in Darmstadt. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Gernot Minke is professor emeritus at the University of Kassel. He is head of the Research Laboratory for Experimental Building (FEB) at the Faculty of Architecture and also works as a freelance architect and consultant for building ecology.
