A Complete Guide to Straw Bale Building
$75.69
- Paperback
312 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2021
Summary
A comprehensive hands-on guide for builders, both self-builders and professionals, and an essential handbook for designers that includes many construction details.
Straw bale buildings are warm in winter and cool in summer. The natural materials used create beautiful, healthy homes that also have a low environmental impact. Highly affordable for self-builders, in professional construction, the relationship between quality, price, and long-term savings can easily be achieved. Straw bal…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781856233132 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1856233138 |
| Author: | Rikki Nitzkin |
| Publisher: | Permanent Publications |
| Imprint: | Permanent Publications |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 312 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2021 |
| Weight: | 1.02kg |
| Dimensions: | 275mm x 222mm |
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Critics Review
“For the un-initiated it is a beautiful initiation into the ecology and art of natural building, for the self-builder it is a support team full of technical guidance, and for the professional builders and designers it conveys every critical detail that is needed for high quality build and longevity.”—Alex Cicelsky, Founder and Designer, Center for Creative Ecology
About The Author
Rikki Nitzkin
Rikki Nitzkin found her way to straw bale when building her own home in the Catalan Pyrenees. Maren Termens has a degree in Technical Architecture and found straw bale building through the Institut Tecnologic de la Construccio. Together they founded the Red de Construccion Con Paja (Spanish Straw Building Network) and have since built many buildings and taught over 100 workshops.
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