Straw Bale Reciprocal Roof

A bountiful garden blesses this earthen plastered retreat with flowers and organic food.

Straw bale reciprocal roof.

All in all it cost charlie about 15 000 23 000. It was a hell of a task to pull it off especially since we loaded all the soil onto the surface of the roof one bucket at a time sadly we never stuck around long enough before moving to kentucky to see the roof flourish with plant life. Inside curves and color create a feminine ambiance. Zhang s next project is to construct an entire habitable building in dubbo in collaboration with john dash and the landowner.

But i am also hungry to learn more about the physics strengths and weaknesses of these beautiful elegant yet simple roofs. Straw bales well protected with post and beam or else cob on its own are good options. Firstly you would not use a full bale in the roof and secondly i have previously seen a completed straw bale roof insulation. Like a tyre or two full of rocks.

Here are some pictures of a beautiful double reciprocal roof i found. For the stemwall between ground and 50cm above ground i suggest you try tyres filled with rocks. The straw bale roof constructed by dr zhang and blue mountains straw bale builder jason dash only took one day to erect. When we built our two story timber frame straw bale house in 2012 13 we incorporated a green roof into the design.

I am becoming more and more enamored with the idea of a reciprocal roof for my own round cob straw bale home. Enjoy the videos and music you love upload original content and share it all with friends family and the world on youtube. If you use posts they should go on top of something that won t let water seep up through it. Granted it was smaller bale sections and they had rough rendering covering them.

It took charlie a little over a year to build his home with a reciprocal roof and lime plastered straw bale walls. An art studio shimmers with mica containing clay paint.