La Construction en Paille
Luc Floissac
Straw is a renewable, local, healthy resource with great insulating power. Luckily, France, a large producer of cereals, does not lack straw... Straw is therefore the ideal material to build passive or positive energy buildings in France. CQFD. In this book, the author presents the main characteristics of straw, the regulatory and normative context applicable to this material, the different types of building systems using straw in all its forms. Then, through some forty examples of individual or collective buildings selected mainly in France, Belgium, Switzerland and Great Britain, the author illustrates all the constructive techniques. Straw is used either as an insulating filling material, or as a structural and therefore load-bearing material, or as a combination of both. The following are described: selfsupporting structural straw, hybrid straw-supporting techniques and complementary structures, straw - framework - rendering collaboration, straw-filled caissons, use of straw in bulk, straw concretes, interior and exterior straw insulation for rehabilitation or new buildings.
