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Case Study:Home For Construction Workers: Architectural Design

This document discusses a case study for a strawbale house construction project to serve as affordable housing for construction workers. Strawbale construction uses baled straw as an insulating building material, and it has advantages like being a renewable resource, providing high insulation, and having low construction costs. Key features of strawbale houses are that the walls can be built with unskilled labor, and plasters like earthen or lime are inexpensive finishing materials.

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Case Study:Home For Construction Workers: Architectural Design

This document discusses a case study for a strawbale house construction project to serve as affordable housing for construction workers. Strawbale construction uses baled straw as an insulating building material, and it has advantages like being a renewable resource, providing high insulation, and having low construction costs. Key features of strawbale houses are that the walls can be built with unskilled labor, and plasters like earthen or lime are inexpensive finishing materials.

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ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN

CASE STUDY:HOME FOR


CONSTRUCTION WORKERS

By:-SHOURYA PURI

 AMITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING
TOPIC

STRAWBALE HOUSE

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STRAWBALE CONSTRUCTION

• Uses bales of straw commonly wheat,


rice, rye and oats straw as structural
elements, building insulation, or both.
• Natural building.
• Sustainable method construction.
• Low cost.
• Energy efficiency of thick, super-insulated
walls.
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MATERIAL

• Baled straw from wheat, oats, barley, rye,


rice and others.
• Walls covered by earthen or lime stucco.
• Straw bale are traditionally a waste
product which farmers do not till under the
soil, but do sell as animal bedding or
landscape supply due to their durable
nature

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ADVANTAGES
• Easy to build.
• Renewable nature of
straw.
• Low cost.
• Easy availability.
• Naturally fire-
retardant.
• High insulation value.
• Low cost alternative
for building highly
insulating walls.
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FEATURES
• Building walls with
straw bales can be
accomplished with
unskilled labour.
• Low costs of the bales
make this technique
economically attractive.

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• Earthen plaster taken from site soil,
applied by the owner/builder, and
maintained by the owner is quite
inexpensive,
• Mixture of clay and straw can be used to
fill any voids before the wire mesh is
attached

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PLASTER
• Earthen and lime
plaster are two
natural alternatives
• Cement-based stucco
is another popular
option.

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THANK YOU

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