Re: [Strawbale] Green roofs on strawbale buildings

[zac solomons <zac.solomons@gmail...>]

Thanks Max and everyone else for your replies. No doubt it is a confusing picture. As i understand it the most likely problem is that your render will crack if it takes the load? It would be amazing if some big building/engineering company did exhaustive testing of different straw bale walls, then i could let go of the butterflies in my stomach. Still thinking of maybe going with a lightweight roof, despite ingenious design solutions like Max's i wonder if i am trying to fit a square peg in a round hole!

On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 1:05 PM, Max Vittrup Jensen <max@permalot.org> wrotke:

 Just a fast comment to add to all of the good Green Roof advices;

We made a small 3 walled load bearing stage for a school in 2009 with
green roof. The trick is that I used 4 columns of round straw bales on
end as the 4 load bearing columns, which holds a bond gbeam; simply the
edges of the roof frame. As the structure is quite open towards the
front, and the roof leans towards the back, there's also 2 round wood
oak poles holding the roof in the front of the stage.
You can see it all on one of the many photo-comic manuals on our site;
look under 'resources'.

Cheers,
Max Vittrup Jensen
PermaLot Centre of Natural Building
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