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Grain Architecture

natural sustainable design

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STRAWBALE WORKSHOPS

Project Details

Status: Completed 2019

Location: Suffolk

Type: New build / Workshop

Construction: Timber frame / Straw bale infill

Main Contractor: Hartwyn

Press:

AJ - Saving the Earth: making the case for rammed earth architecture - April 2021

Riba - How easy is it to find and use natural building materials? - Nov 2021

Description

A pottery studio, jewellery workshop, glazed link, storage rooms, wood store, garden store, and kiln room, built in 2019 by Hartwyn in Suffolk. It's constructed of timber frame, with limecrete foundations, straw bales for insulation in the workshops, natural fibre insulations in the roof, and earth floors over recycled foamglas insulation. It's finished internally with clay plaster and externally with timber cladding, except for the glazed link (or cuisine d'ete) which has a roundwood frame, brick floor, polycarbonate roof, and 'mandarin' lime render on the couple of straw bale workshop walls, creating a gloriously Mediterranean-inspired outdoor dining space.

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