Strawbale Student Studio 2019

House Notes – Strawbale Student Studio

I wanted to create a “homegrown “ strawbale eco friendly student studio for my children to live in .

I wanted to show a strawbale sustainable building can look and feel like any new modern dwelling. I have tried to incorporate as many good building practices as possible, here are some of them:

• Using the existing house footprint
• Optimising house orientation
• Recycling
• Sustainable materials
• Good insulation
• Greywater collection and reuse
• Rainwater collection
• Solar energy
• Thermodynamic hot water
• Double glazing
• Led lighting

Strawbale for walls and wool for internal walls were grown on a small hobby farm we own in Wandering WA. Leftover straw, sand & lime returned to farm paddock (bales used in the garden)

A big effort was made to reduce waste from the construction of this studio:

• Recycled flooring for bathroom & kitchen benchtops
• Reused light to kitchen
• Reused malamine sheeting to make some cupboards
• Reused cables
• Reused birdmesh for strawbale
• Reused lining boards for window seats & lighting shelf’s
• Salvaged blue metal in hand made paving
• Hand made laundry bench top from farm stones , stained glass pieces ,tile offcuts & brass rod
• Timber offcuts used for heating
• Footing/slab formwork recycled ply & timber 90% recycled timber posts and wall frames
• Door frames recycled Recycled jarrah shelving for architraves and skirting
• Recycled bricks from original shed used as driveway
• Reused handbasin & taps in bathrooms
• Reused shower screens
• Reused washing machine (from a caravan!)
• Reused flip mixer in laundry
• Reused ironing cabinet
• No skip was used on site all waste was either recycled or reused.

Designed by arcologic design

This home is currently under construction, please be careful a work in progress.