Impressive Straw Bale Home & Dream Family Homestead - Sustainable Green Building
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- Опубликовано: 21 апр 2023
- This family's ecological home is packed with sustainable features, including straw bale walls, natural materials and finishes, composting toilets, grey water plant beds, a green roof, a solar hot water heater, earthen floors, and a lot more! They manage their forest and use the crowded, dead, or dying trees they remove as firewood to heat their home and they mill any quality wood to be used for projects around the house and property. They also grow and raise a lot of food, including fruit and nut trees, a vegetable garden, a greenhouse, and laying hens for eggs.
You can find out more about Evolve Builders Group and their climate-conscious construction here:
evolvebuilders.ca/
The home was designed by Martin Lieffhebber and includes sleeping pods at one end, an atrium in the middle to capture passive solar energy, and a living and kitchen area at the other end.
After 18 years of living in this natural home and working on multiple green building projects, Chris thinks that Passive House (Passivhaus) is where the industry is heading because it drastically reduces the amount of energy needed to heat and cool a home (often by more than 70%) and it can be done anywhere (urban and rural).
We've made a few videos about Passive House if you want to check them out here:
• Passive Houses
A big thank you to Chris, Christine, and Mola for sharing their home with us!
Thanks for watching!
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Thanks for watching! You can find out more about Evolve Builders Group and check out their green building projects here:
evolvebuilders.ca/
Can someone get an exact similar house plan?
@Exploring Alternatives Firewood depicted or included as "sustainable" is a sick joke.
It's clear to see that a lot of thought and effort went into building this home. I hope they enjoy every minute living in it. ❤️
They've done a great job. I hope they have a lot of good friends to share it with.
Enormous and beautiful, yet sustainable. Love it! What a happy wonderful life❤
The extraordinary benefits of straw bale housing cannot be overstated. (Don't get caught up in thinking straw construction can only be used as infill). The physical sensation of living in the quiet and warmth of a straw structure is profoundly nurturing.
Many states code straw bale without extra permitting or building requirements. Several major insurance companies cover straw as well.
You have to have a structural “skeleton “ to support the weight of the roof as this person has done. If not, then in an earthquake the roof will end up on the floor with you crushed in between the two. Straw alone cannot safely support a roof.😊
@@Mori-vl64k Not to mention the straw compressing over time no matter what. Innumerable construction nightmares.
Its great to see this guy, his wife and his wife's son living in such a great house!
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For now, the best video about a self-sustaining ecological house.
That is so beautiful, because and in spite of it being a "working" home.
It really is charming.
These kind of homes are becoming my favourite, I think.
It doesn't get much better than this! 🌞👍🌿
It is a gorgeous design, very eye catching in a great way!
Love the roof top garden
Kitchen is everything
That's my dream house ❤😍
Beautifully made. Would love to have a property like this.
What a beautiful life
Such a pretty place😍
This is incredible!
Gorgeous home. When we had our straw house we incorporated a thermal mass wood stove. Basically the only emissions from it was a bit of body temperature steam.
What a beautiful home. Thank you for sharing it with us. Kathy.
Outstanding living roof!
Comfy home that doesn't poison the habitants, saves energy and uses sustainable materials and off grid! So many wins!! Outstanding!! One question though...how does the hold up in large snow storms and heavy winds like hurricanes and tornadoes?
The plaster straw walls are just lovely
I'm in love with this property!!!
Outstanding. Love the living rooftop.👍👍Thank you Matt and Danielle ❤
So beautiful ❤. My dream homestead.
Amazing project, a true dream house!
The cabinetry is beautiful 🤩
Thank you for making the time. Very informative. Loving kindness
Fascinating! I could definitely live here! Love everything about it!
How amazing is this !
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Beautiful, sustainable farsighting homestead. Love it ❤️
Very inspiring! I love these sustainable homes videos.
My dream home! Thank you for sharing!
This is awesome. Good for them! Love seeing this. Inspirational.
I just truly love it.
What an impressive home! It's unconventional, serves all their needs and is lovely.
It's quite a work-in-progress.
One of the most beautiful buildings ive ever seen, thanks for sharing.
Absolutely Brilliant 🌿
Evolve ✊
These people are my heroes.
beautiful home, beautiful family
Wonderfully thought out design! Thank you for sharing. Yours in Gratitude
I want this so much
Wow! This is so impressive.
It is so amazing! Great job. Love it! The house of dream! 💛💙
Great home design and materials.
⭐⭐⭐⭐🙂
Hard consistent work pays off....
Top 10 Best episode for sure!
thermal mass is not disproven. it is just that it is suitable only to certain latitudes/annual weather patterns. eg in the tropics you build high on stilts to allow all around airflow.
Amazing house.
Brilliant!!
Beautiful home 🏡 💕
Wow. Impressive
this is stunning
Beautiful ❤
Awesome!
C'est une très belle famille et leur concept de maison est vraiment intéressant, il y a beaucoup d'idées à exploiter.
Merci pour le partage.
Enjoyed your work! Great job!
Very beautiful 😍👍
amazing what these ppl managed to do, much respect for them and thanks for sharing
So amazing n inspiring
0453. Great to see as these elevate the ground area up but retain the flowers and plants growing areas to support the insect life etc. You end up retaining this after the build. 😊😊😊❤❤❤❤❤❤. Laurie. NZ.
That’s my dream…. A sustainable house
This is incredible! Can anyone explain how the strawbales in the wall don't decompose over time and impact the scructure/insulation of the house?
Mice must love it there.
ich ❤ strohballenhäuser und denke jeder sollte in so einem nachhaltigen gebäude wohnen..... ❤grüße aus deutschland
I love the house
Smart people 👌
very impressive!
Very nice!
I'll definitely be looking more into building one of these 👍💡.
Beautiful home! I was curious about the bedroom pods and wished more time was spent exploring the layout/design of the floor plan.
Nice people. ❤
nice building ❤❤
Wonderful
Next thing to learn seems to bee no-dig gardening, mulching the garden to keep the moisture for the plants. And maybe permaculture..
awesome
On Puerto Rico the greywater went directly to my parents garden in their retirement home. 30 miles south of Boston, the grey water from my home is used to water the lawn.
хороший дом как по мне. интересная крыша
Greetings from oakville Ontario Canada there's a home built from straw and mud and other environmental materials because the owners wife had allergies to normal building materials thanks for the presentation
It is very beautiful, functional, lots of sustainable concepts. Love the garden, chicken coop, and the central window area.
What about fires? Is this a fire-proof structure? What do you do to protect from forest fires?
I'm in love with this home. I would so love to have something similar to this. How can one do this? I do live in alberta Canada. Our family wants to have a sustainable and off grid home. It's our dream ✨️
Good thermal management by using hot water for house heating and for daily use.
I don't want to know the price . But what a beautiful place !!
Woahh
The exact number to make a Passive House is a maximum energy use of 15 kWh per square metre per year IIRC. Building cost studies so far show an increase in building cost of about ten to fifteen percent over conventional, which is paid back in your energy savings. Time to payoff is determined by how much your energy use costs. PH projects often save 90% vs conventional energy demands in a home.
I really want a natural build like this but its so expensive!
I like your mention of the "engineered lumber" too instead of old growth logging the truth is ancient trees are not or soon will not be an option at all there are so few left so best to figure out an alternative now.
Some of the elements remind me of Taliesin West
What has dethroned thermal mass as the most effective passive heating? I’m so curious!
sleep therapy tone, i am sleepin'😅
My dream just add solar and perfect
Nice 👍
If it is truly sustainable the everyone can have one
Because no one can have this besides the people in the video?
What is this whining about, exactly? The availability of materials or cost?
Can you share any of the architectural details I'm curious on the roof design and beam sizing and things like that....
how come the access for the waste tank is inside the house? why not have the door on the outside? just have an external door?
It is nice, but I would like it more with greenhouse like earthship have. Cool air from back has more solution that to burry long pipe underground. Otherwise I really like, I am big fan of greenroofs and earthen plaster.
Few questions. Do the hay bales break down eventually and leave gap between the layers of clay? Were the hay bales sprayed for bugs first? Lastly, they keep touting "sustainable" does that mean that somehow they also create the clay?
Stunning home... Clearly they're young and not thinking about aging there though. Too many steps/level changes. Otherwise both the design and aesthetic are amazing!
having straw for insulation is interesting. How does it react to moisture and how do you prevent your walls with being completely over taken by black mold?
I'm guessing that woodstove takes care of a lot of the moisture issues.
It’s covered by a breathable plaster so moisture can’t get trapped in. It basically just dries out when it gets wet and mould can’t form.
Straw is not the same as hay, but they look the same from a distance. Where hay would decay and develop mold or mildew in the presence of moisture, straw won't get moldy or decay because there isn't any organic matter left after harvest season. Farmers tend to burn straw if it's not being used to make something like straw hats or bags.
Straw bale homes are fascinating. This home is very structured, but I've seen a lot of homes that have a more organic style.
@@toldjacat
You are correct that straw and hay are not the same but from there your explanation veers off course. Both are made from organic matter, which is, by this definition, anything with the element Carbon inside it. @lukeh3020 is correct by saying mould doesn't form because a breathable layer of plaster is applied to the straw bales on either side. This allows moisture levels within the bales to remain below a level mould will grow, unless that level exists outside of the wall.
Hay and straw are very similar but differ because hay includes the seeds (or grains). For example, if a farmer cuts mows a field of mature rye grass (it had gone to seed), dries it, and then bales the stalks then it would be bales of hay. However, if the farmer harvested the seed, dried the "waste" stalks, and baled those then they would be bales of straw. Then there is silage and silage bales, also referred to as "baleage" and are the large round bales, which take wet plant material and ferment it.
Straw is used for a lot more than just making hats or bags. A large usage is for animal bedding as it is absorbent, easy to put down and clean up, and animals like to lay down in it. Straw is a common material for mulch in gardens. The construction industry uses straw bales, usually in ditches, to filter debris so that it doesn't get into the water supply.
8 ton concrete foot path may take a few decades to pay back carbon wise but it’s a good start and although we focus on the positives they a way off being holier than thou!
I guess big flat stones (and the crane to lift them) were way over their budget. Lol
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