In south Texas, some potential owner/natural homebuilders have decided that neither a strawbale nor an adobe/compressed earth block house is right for our climate. The solution is a hybrid home which appropriately combines strawbale and blocks for thermal mass.
In the DVD and accompanying book, Building with Awareness, Ted Owens documents the building of a hybrid home in New Mexico, (which of course imposes very different climate challenges than those encountered in south Texas.) This hybrid home combines exterior strawbale construction with interior adobe for thermal mass.
The video is available for purchase or Netflix customers may add it to their queue.
Below are the trailer and a six minute excerpt.
Seems pretty interesting article construction of hybrid home.Loks pretty good in the video.
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