Karool House
Hugh Gordon ArchitectMichelago, ACT
Straw. It has covered the roofs of mediaeval cottages and quintessential Dutch windmills. Livestock eat it. Van Gogh painted stacks of it. One of the three little pigs chose it as a building material, albeit with disappointing results. It certainly doesn’t come to mind as the building material of the future. But for this home, nestled in the hills near Michelago in the Australian Capital Territory, straw is the key to ecosuccess, or at least one of them.
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