Timber frame and straw bale construction Archived Message
Posted by mack on February 21, 2019, 8:42 pm, in reply to "Mack has it dead right, particularly on the RMHs. One major point touched on here is the ridiculous"
This house was built in France in 1921, despite its single glazed windows it met the building regs requirements of French standards in 2005. Then there's adobe or cob or earth bag...eeuuugggh, building with EARTH? Who would do such a thing? Children‘s Nursery Oranienburg-Eden, the single largest earth dome structure in Germany, by Prof. Dr. Gernot Minke. The entire building is ecologically planned with timber and earth as the primary building materials. Earth bag (all these materials have better insulation values than the shite that gets built here, not to mention they'll be cheap, locally available, low embodied energy - but god, they look so awful, er, don't they?) No no NO! We don't want that, we want this: From Barratt's headline blurb: 'Cottam Meadow was one of the first schemes in the country to win a ‘Built for Life’ award for design excellence, and will offer a truly sustainable way of living.' So, that's what 'design excellence' and 'truly sustainable' looks like. Jesus ####ing Christ, how I hate these people.
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