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The Straw Bale House
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 338

The Straw Bale House

Many copies in stock but still heavy demand; only a few titles published on this subject. Very popular in rural WA too.

Built by Hand
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 482

Built by Hand

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Built by Hand is a celebration of what is so uniquely diverse and yet similar in the buildings of different cultures around the world. Beginning with the most basic ways that human beings have sought shelter-beneath the trees and stars, under the protection of a rock cliff or cave-this book traces the transformation of materials such as earth, stone, wood or bamboo into shelters that are both stationary and moveable.

The Beauty of Straw Bale Homes
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 74

The Beauty of Straw Bale Homes

Celebrates the aesthetic styles of straw bale dwellings with numerous color photographs, including both small and large homes and larger-scale institutional buildings. Includes an introductory essay by the authors noting the key lessons they have learned in years of building with bales.

Small Strawbale
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 216

Small Strawbale

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2005
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  • Publisher: Gibbs Smith

A thorough guide to building with strawbale and other natural materials, thisuide includes an eclectic sampling of houses, studios, meditation spaces,utbuildings, and landscape walls.

The New Strawbale Home
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

The New Strawbale Home

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2003
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  • Publisher: Gibbs Smith

This volume compiles floor plans and images from 40 cutting-edge homes across North America, showcasing a spectrum of regional styles and personal aesthetic choices. 150 color photos.

Passive Solar Architecture
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 306

Passive Solar Architecture

New buildings can be designed to be solar oriented, naturally heated and cooled, naturally lit and ventilated, and made with renewable, sustainable materials—no matter the location or climate. In this comprehensive overview of passive solar design, two of America’s solar pioneers give homeowners, architects, designers, and builders the keys to successfully harnessing the sun and maximizing climate resources for heating, cooling, ventilation, and daylighting. Bainbridge and Haggard draw upon examples from their own experiences, as well as those of others, of more than three decades to offer both overarching principles as well as the details and formulas needed to successfully design a more comfortable, healthy, and secure place in which to live, laugh, dance, and be comfortable. Even if the power goes off. Passive Solar Architecture also discusses “greener” and more-sustainable building materials and how to use them, and explores the historical roots of green design that have made possible buildings that produce more energy and other resources than they use.

Building a Straw Bale House
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 212

Building a Straw Bale House

"Filled with comprehensive case studies selected from over thirty-five of Red Feather's successfully completed housing and community-based building projects, Building a Straw Bale House documents the organization's collaboration with reservation communities and provides a step-by-step, bale-by-bale construction handbook - from initial site selection to finished product. Complete with information on safety, design, tools, and materials, it is an inspiring lesson for anybody interested in this technique of constructing a house and a hopeful redefinition of the fundamental ideas of architecture and the home."--BOOK JACKET.

Strawbale Home Plans
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 200

Strawbale Home Plans

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2007
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  • Publisher: Gibbs Smith

Strawbale Home Plans is a meditative and conscientious exploration of the innumerable reasons to consider straw bale as a viable building material. Environmentally friendly, super insulative, economical, and natural, straw bale can be used to build everything from garden walls and shed roofs to small homes. The vibrant pages of this practical guide are filled with rich photos of organic, fluid, undulating structures pulsating with subtle creativity. Indeed at once a pragmatic construction manual and a philosophical, artistic guidebook, this handbook provides food for the mind and soul.

Tunnel Lining Design Guide
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 204

Tunnel Lining Design Guide

Of geotechnical and geophysical -- pr) operies 160 -- 10.3 4 Design of tunnel linings 1 61 -- 10.4 Instrumentation of the CTRL North Downs Tunnel 164 -- 10.5 References 165 -- Appendix I Abbreviations and symbols 166 -- Appendix 2 Risk management 168 -- A2l Introduction 168 -- A2.2 Scope 168 -- A23 Risk register 169 -- A21. 1 When to use the risk register 169 -- A2.32 Whalt is it? 169 -- A2.3.3 Assessment process 169 -- A2.3.4 Key steps 169 -- A2.3.5 Risk assessment, qualitative or -- quantitative? 171 -- A2.3.6 R anaingt risk 175 -- A2.4 References 17.

Children of Clay
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 36

Children of Clay

Members of a Tewa Indian family living in Santa Clara Pueblo in New Mexico follow the ages-old traditions of their people as they create various objects of clay.