By way of introduction let me say that i am a South-African living in
Rotterdam, doing a study on environmental architecture in Wales (that's a
mouth full). Recently i spent one week building a round garden wall in
strawbale and i thought it was pretty cool to do. The thing that really
caught my attention was the way in which, when standing inside the circle,
the sounds from outside seemed to disappear and if i called out the walls
seem to suck the sound up immediately. Strawbales seem to have good sound
insulating and acoustics qualities and I would like to write a paper on this
subject for my course, only I dont really know where to begin.