SNaB – Theory Course – Designing your Straw Bale Building

The essential preparation for strawbale design whether you’re a self-builder, an architect, a designer or someone interested in natural building. This popular workshop will save you precious time & money when designing your strawbale building.

On this course you will:

• Be introduced to a brief history of Straw Bale Building
• Understand how to identify good building bales
• Learn how to design with the bale in mind
• Hear about strawbale panels for prefabricated and modular buildings
• Learn how to customise and ‘dress’ bales on site
• Understand where to locate posts for framework buildings

This course will be taught by Barbara Jones. “If you want to build a straw house in the UK, go to Barbara Jones.” (Touker Suleyman from BBC Dragons’ Den)

Cost: £75

Please bring a pen and notebook. Tea & coffee provided but bring your own lunch or there are local shops on Todmorden high street.

If you have any other questions, please email schoolofnaturalbuilding@gmail.com. We look forward to having you join us!