Load bearing straw bale house with sculpted earthen plaster. Earthbag arch from a workshop in Poland. Load bearing straw bale house, with a green roof.
 
Join us on a building workshop (warsztaty) in Poland
2008 dates... includes new courses from 70 Euro in English (po polsku)
 
The first load bearing straw bale house in Poland. Earthbag vaulted house for the Yaqui Indians in Mexico. Cordwood wall.
 
Earth Hands and Houses is a non-profit organisation set up in 1997 with the vision to enable people to build their own shelter. It achieves this through a program of demonstration projects, workshops, presentations, and other services. Our main focus is to encourage the application of low-tech, affordable, sustainable building techniques, utilising indigenous building materials and easily accessible methods. We believe there is no ‘one’ technique as a solution to the world's housing needs, but an endless combination of materials and techniques. Each place is different, each culture is different, and therefore each home should be a response to this specific need.
 
Entrance to on earthbag dome with clay plasters. Earthbag dome shingle roof. Straw clay and bale building in Mexico for ‘Save the Children’
 
The first Earthbag Dome house in Arizona built by Dominic Howes. Mira in front of her straw bale house in the ‘Casas de Cantan’ project A straw clay chapel built by the Borderline Foundation in Sejny, Poland.
 
Dom Rafala Kubackiego i Izy Loty, Galindia, wies Lipowo. Koszt bezpiecznych izolacji pvc free, wieksze o 50%.
The house of Rafal Kubacki
and Iza Lota, Galindia, Lipowo, Poland. The cost of pvc free
materials is 50% higher.