Used since the 19th century—typically as a rural, rustic building material—straw has been a DIY solution for affordable, earth-friendly construction. But a new wave of contemporary straw ...

The finished vault shape of the pavilion demonstrates straw's flexibility and value as a sustainable building material. By letting natural forces transform the surfaces, it can be observed how the ...

The question is whether straw, a millennia-old building material, can scale up to meet 21st Century ambitions. In panel systems, relatively short pieces of straw are packed together at just the ...

On top of this, the building materials we use are contributing to one of the biggest problems of our time: climate change. While we focus on making our homes more energy efficient through better ...

Rare Forms recently moved its offices from Northampton to the October Co. building in Easthampton to open this straw-filled workshop ... of companies using local materials to build these carbon ...

Straw remnants have been ingeniously repurposed into green materials used in the production of furniture. At the foot of Shengjing Mountain in Jingmen's Dongbao district lie 32 cottages of various ...

With bio-based building materials such as straw or hemp, significantly more greenhouse gas emissions can be saved in insulation compared to today. Switzerland is home to just under 1.8 million ...

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