Sustainable (Straw) House – a Case Study

This is a good example of a small family house in the city Bratislava, built by architects and members of NGO ArTUR for their almost reatired colleague. Therfore the therequirements were modesty, no barriers and low operational costs.
The house was designed as passive house with as much as possible natural materials, low impact foundations, green roof, selfproduction of electricity, heat and hot water.

After taking the course:

  • you will understand sustainable approach of a small natural house
  • you will see how to do low impact foundations
  • you will know which different natural or recycled materials you can use in building, how and why
  • you will understand some passive house features