A straw bale construction that I worked on back in London is finally complete. It went slowly because everyone involved was a volunteer, but we built a small straw bale building within a city farm in central London. It's now a cafe and open to the public. Highbury Builders Collective was involved and documents the build on their site. I managed to squeeze into one of the photos of a Christmas party.
It was a great experience and I'm grateful to the team and for the friends I made there.
The structure is a timber frame (many callouses from all of the chiseling out of mortise and tenon joints) somewhat inspired by the Segal Trust methods with a green sedum roof, a raised floor and most of the walls were filled in with straw bales and lime plastered.
