natural building

Natural Building

Natural Building involves the use of 'low-impact materials' with regards the planets sustainability.

Typically they are renewable (non-finite) with utilisation typically invloving low-energy or low carbon or low-emodied inputs and outputs, e.g. emissions, pollution etc...

Key Materials ans associated building techniques include

Timber
Straw - commonly used in straw bale format
Industrial Hemp fibes in natural raw processsed format or as proprietary products as insulation or as an aggregate in a conglomorate mix - e.g. a form of concrete.
Earth building, which can include:
Adobe
Rammed Earth otherwise known as pisé de terre.
Cob
Earthbag
Cordwood

A whole host of other materials can be used to compliment the above. Some examples are as below (listing beyond this could be rather eroneous):-

Sheeps wool
Bamboo
Fibre boards e.g. Straw Board, or others either indvidual/combination composition materials including Flax, Hemp etc..






Natural Homes Map by Courtesy, and used with kind permission of Oliver Swann, Natural Homes http://naturalhomes.org

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