{"id":87,"date":"2014-05-28T20:22:04","date_gmt":"2014-05-28T17:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ioniaguesthouse.com\/?p=87"},"modified":"2014-06-03T14:59:59","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T11:59:59","slug":"straw-bale-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ioniaguesthouse.com\/?p=87","title":{"rendered":"Straw bale construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re planning to build our guest accommodation using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Straw-bale_construction\">timber-frame straw-bale construction<\/a>. We&#8217;re doing that for lots of different reasons. We think it looks great, e.g., in this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalbuildingblog.com\/first-straw-bale-house-in-new-zealand\/\">straw-bale house interior from New Zealand<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ioniaguesthouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/straw-bale-home-New-Zealand.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ioniaguesthouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/straw-bale-home-New-Zealand.jpg\" alt=\"straw-bale-home-New-Zealand\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ioniaguesthouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/straw-bale-home-New-Zealand.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ioniaguesthouse.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/straw-bale-home-New-Zealand-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 50cm+ thick walls will make excellent insulation during the hot summer months, and it&#8217;s a cost-effective green-building idea. It also fits in well with local Turkish architecture: many houses in the village are made from\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><em>kerpi\u00e7<\/em> (adobe bricks) and once we&#8217;ve covered our straw bales in clay plaster, the walls will look very similar. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>One final reason: Turkey does get the occasional earthquake, and we&#8217;ve been really impressed with how well straw-bale houses hold up to earthquake testing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/x8Uz-2PonEk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re planning to build our guest accommodation using timber-frame straw-bale construction. We&#8217;re doing that for lots of different reasons. We think it looks great, e.g., in this straw-bale house interior from New Zealand. The 50cm+ thick walls will make excellent insulation during the hot summer months, and it&#8217;s a cost-effective green-building idea. It also fits [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[16,12,15],"class_list":["post-87","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-building","tag-clay-plaster","tag-hotel","tag-straw-bale-construction","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ioniaguesthouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ioniaguesthouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ioniaguesthouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ioniaguesthouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ioniaguesthouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ioniaguesthouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":94,"href":"https:\/\/www.ioniaguesthouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/94"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ioniaguesthouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ioniaguesthouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ioniaguesthouse.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}