PALETTE
Red Ochre Strawbale infill walls
Black Burnished Concrete Slab On Ground
Timber Post and Beam Structure

PHILOSOPHY
Practicality, passive performance and a tethered connection with nature. The strawbale “earth” house; born out of a concise and pragmatic client brief.

A low lying floor plane anchors the occupants to the ground providing a strong connection with the earth, vertically speaking. Externally thick solid walls surround, encompassing inhabitants in a heavy robust shelter.

The brief was simple and so too was the philosophy of the design; and what was produced was a building of grounded-ness, stability and stillness.