TWO STRAW HOUSES TWO STRAW HOUSES

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: LTL ARCHITECTS DESIGN TEAM MEMBER

I was part of a team at LTL researching and developing five speculative house designs to expand on the architectural, spatial, and structural possibilities of building with biogenic materials. The two houses I designed paired load-bearing straw bale construction with spans and stabilization from CLT. (Principals: Paul Lewis, Marc Tsurumaki, David J. Lewis. Team: Kyle Reich, Tengku Sharil Bin Tengku Abdul Kadir, Danial Mahfoud, Celia Chaussabel. .Role: Design, drawings, carbon calculation, renderings of the two straw houses, participating in group reviews of the work.)

The designs are based in the research I did on straw for “Manual of Biogenic House Sections”. From the structural limitations and modular nature of the bales, I developed several possible designs that are a direct consequence, and take full advantage, of straw’s capacities as a material.