Next Straw Bale Workshops: How you can join us

Next Straw Bale Building Workshops: How you can join us

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STEP Training in Portugal: 6 January – 12 March 2025
Ort: Castro Marim, Quinta da Fornalha (DE/EN): BOOKED OUT

STEP CERTIFIED training with practice, we will probably build a straw bale beach bar using different straw building techniques

Clay plaster in a straw bale house in Gnesau/Carinthia: (1) 7-12 April, Location: 9563 Gnesau, Gurk 21 (DE/EN)

Plaster preparation workshop: reed stucco, electrics, … 1-5 April Clay base plastering workshop: 7-11 April 2025 (limited places)

Intro Straw bale construction and clay plaster (theory and practice): 1 – 4 May 2025 (German), start 12:00
Location: asbn, 3720 Ravelsbach, Baierdorf 6, NÖ
Workshop introduction to straw bale construction (infill, load-bearing, hybrid techniques), clay plaster, planning a straw bale house

Intro Straw bale construction and clay plaster (theory and practice): 29 May – 1 June 2025 (English), Location: Ecotopia pa Österlen, Bondrum 1334, Sweden, Info & registration
Workshop Introduction to straw bale construction (infill, load-bearing, hybrid techniques), clay plaster, planning a straw bale house

Planned straw bale house projects 2025 (exact dates to be determined):
Dates may be subject to change depending on planning and planning permission.

June 2025: StrawHenge TinyHouses in Großmürbisch, Bgld WS: Construction, infill, plasters

?July 2025: 6-corner house with reciprocal roof in Gnas, Styria (planning Herbert Gruber, asbn), WS Infill & Plaster

? Straw bale house extension in Innsbruck, Tyrol (planning Christian Draschl) WS: StrawHenge modules, infill, plasters

? Straw bale house in Tawern, DE (planning Christian Keil)
WS: Infill, plasters

? Straw bale house and wrapping in Belgium (planning Emmanuel Laugs), WS: Infill, CUT, Wrapping

strohballen-Wrapping in Wien

? Straw bale wrapping in the Waldviertel, Lower Austria
WS Wrapping and plasters


If you are interested in a workshop or course, please send an email to asbn@baubiologie.at
You can also pre-register your interest and we will inform you as soon as we have more details about a project.


Look back: Photos from StrawHenge Dome and Roundhouse in Prague, CZ, Summer 2023

More in Gallery Strohballendom in Prag


Photos from Straw Bale House (CUT-Construction, load bearing) in Kessel-Elk, NL

Photos from the refurbishment of a farm house incl. straw bale roof in Engelsdorf, NÖ, 2023

Straw Bale-Infill and Clay plaster Workshop in Burgenland, spring 2023

Photos from the Strawhenge Prefab-Workshop in Neunagelberg, NÖ, 2023

Photos from the Clay Plaster in Renovation-Workshop in Zemling, NÖ, 2023

Photos from the Straw Bale-Wrapping in Ysper, NÖ 2023


Photos from Straw Bale House in Föllim, NÖ (Construction, Base plate, Roof, Intermediate walls), 2022

Impressions from the straw bale house in Föllim in unserer Galerie


Photos from Workshop Load Bearing Round House in Gerersdorf, Burgenland, May 2022

Go to Galerie Strohballen-Rundhaus-Workshop


Looking back: Pictures from the wrapping workshop in Yspertal, Lower Austria, April 2022

Continue to the Galerie Strohballen-Wrapping im Landhotel Yspertal


Click here for the Galleries of past workshops

And here you can see Pictures of the virtual construction site in Ravelsbach

The virtual construction site is Winner of the Energy Globe Award Lower Austria 2015 (EARTH category)