Sat 3 Nov 2007
Finding a Needle in a Strawbale Stack in LA
Posted by q under Architecture , General , Places & Things , Social Climate , Technology1 Comment
With all the attention going on with green architecture, some builders are tending to build Straw Bale buildings as a alternative mode of boundness of sustainability but most of the construction and development are located on rural areas.
The metropolitan area of Los Angeles has been a adversary towards Straw Bale Construction. Mostly the green homes are old historic adobe buildings, homes built out of local stone quarries and recycle material (glass bottles and other discarded items).
The only and possibly the first Straw Bale building in the county of Los Angeles is the Santa Clarita Transit Maintenance Facility, the northern outskirts of LA. Designed by Hellmuth, Obata and Kassabaum (HOK), one of the major architecture firms in the world, has created a niche in sustainable architecture.
An article on the website Inhabitat wrote about the facility received the first LEED-certified award in LA county.
Santa Clarita Transit Maintenance Facility w/ a sectional detail of the straw-bale wall
Hopefully there would be more straw-bale construction not only in the county of Los Angeles but the city itself.
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March 16th, 2010 at 1:07 am
Hey what’s up?
Is there something malfunctioning with your blog or with my Safari? I keep clicking on the rss feed and I get some strange code from the web browser. The feed content shows many strange characters and it looks messy. Maybe it’s from the new software I set up to get the subscription feeds into a custom way. Strange, never the less.
So long!