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
? 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)