Straw : beyond a sustainable building block
Architecture continues to rely on technical capabilities to approach issues in climate change and sustainability, and while they can have positive real outcomes, the emphasis on the creation of quality spaces can be left to the wayside. This thesis chooses to take another approach; asking how phenomenology can have a greater impact on outcomes for designed spaces that benefit both the health of humans and the natural environment.
The essence of this approach in terms of sustainability is the movement of natural building, from which the material of baled straw is borrowed and interrogated in relation to poetics and atmospheres.