Straw

Ive been on numerous Strawbale building workshops as a teenager. Most of my weekends were spent on building sites. I grew up with parents working with natural building materials. My moms organisation (o.z.ArTUR, architecture for sustainable development) in Slovakia has a school with education on clay and straw as a building material. My dad is the CEO for Ecococon straw panels (ecococon.eu). Ive also attended the European strawbale builders gathering (ESBG) 5 times. They were especially interesting and revolutionary the last few times as prefabricated strawbale panels came to life. This slowly makes straw a more available material to the wider market than just self-builders.

A theatre in Zilina built under a bridge out of beerboxes, insulated with straw and clay plaster finnish. Workshops were lead by Tom Rijven. This project activated many locals to participate and created a social place out of a place that was not used before.

I have tried all kinds of straw-building techniques, from infill, CUT-system, load bearing or straw panel to traditional straw roof.

mounting of Ecococon straw-panels with Small Planet (Lars Keller) at Feldballe Friskole in Denmark by Henning Larsen architects.

Project - Build Back Better in Albania. We were experts from Poland, Czechia & Slovakia, leading a workshop in Albania and building a pavilion in 3 days out of natural materials at a school in Albania.

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