Straw Bale Home Design
Online Workshop
Solid Design is Paramount to Your Straw Bale Success
Most people don’t recognize that designing a straw bale house is significantly different than designing a conventional house. Many straw bale-specific details can easily be missed.
Architects new to straw bale design and optimistic owner-designers frequently overlook these details causing many mistakes to compound over the course of the build, which cost time and money to fix.
The purpose of this workshop is to teach you how to implement straw bale-specific details into your design. These details will allow you to design and build a high-quality, super-efficient, and beautiful straw bale home.
Live instruction from the comfort of your own home!
I enjoyed the time and would recommend this instruction to anyone remotely considering an interest in straw bale or any other type of alternative use of building materials.
Well worth the small cost
Is This Workshop For You? Are You…
Just Getting Started
You may have all the books and all the videos, but you still have so many questions.
Or, if you learn better in person, this is perfect to get you started and expand your understanding of the world of straw bale building!
Too Busy for a 7-day Workshop
This 2-day workshop was created to help folks just like you!
By focusing on the details of straw bale design, you will gain a firm understanding of how the systems come together and keep moving on your project.
Already Designing Your Home
See your plans with a fresh perspective, as you grow your knowledge of the design process and how aspects influence one another.
Deep understanding is vital to your construction success.
A Professional Architect, Designer, Engineer, Builder
Looking to add straw bale to your portfolio?
Gain a solid understanding of the nuances and implications of properly executed straw bale design and methods.
Learn details that distinguish it from conventional construction, and be prepared to design your projects with confidence.
More Than Just A Straw Bale Design Workshop
This comprehensive design workshop covers much more than just the how-to of straw bale home design.
We will cover an array of topics, including what building departments, banks, insurance companies, and subcontractors are looking for in a set of plans. Making a mistake with any of these entities can have a negative impact on your ability to build within a budget and schedule.
Throughout the workshop, I’ll also share all of the cost-effective construction tips and techniques I’ve curated over my years in straw bale (and conventional!) construction.
Timbo Scursso,
Your Instructor
Location: Online Only
March 03, 10, 17, & 24, 2024
12 pm (noon) to 4 pm Denver Time
Join us from the comfort of your own home!
After receiving a TON of requests, we are taking our popular in-person Straw Bale Home Design class virtually for you in 2024!
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"It's cheaper to make changes on paper than in the field"
While I am aware that nobody can design a quality house in 12 hours, I also know that having an opportunity to explore your design ideas, hopes, and dreams under the guidance of a straw bale expert is invaluable. As you integrate what you have learned in the workshop into your own design, I’ll be there to answer your questions to help you overcome any roadblocks.
If you don’t have a specific design in mind when you start the workshop, don’t worry. I have some exercises to pave the way for you to begin your design process. No matter what stage of design, or pre-design, you are in, this workshop will move you towards success.
Learn Essential Straw Bale Details Reduce Costs & Increase Performance
In Depth Topics Covered
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Lifetime Access To Learning Center Course (LCC)– Straw Bale Resources, LLC (SBR) shall maintain a LCC for Straw Bale Home Design Workshop that may include lessons, forms, worksheets, checklists, and other information. You shall have access to this LCC course for as long as the LCC exists. In the event that SBR intends to close the LCC, it shall provide customers with thirty (30) days’ notice via their email on file and the ability to download the resources contained in the LCC.
Please purchase one registration per attending participant. Workshop registrations support the production, maintenance, and ongoing access to the resources available on strawbale.com.
StrawBale.com has been empowering people to build their own beautiful straw bale homes since 2004. Over the years, thousands of people have learned best practices at sb.com 7-day hands-on straw bale workshops and from that process it is clear that with passion, focus, and dedication pretty much everyone can hand craft their own beautiful straw bale home.
Our mission is to create and offer the highest quality resources and instructional material possible, so that you can save time, money, and your peace of mind as you build. We are glad that you have found us and we hope to empower and support you as you go through your personal process of creating your dream straw bale home.
Learn more about Team DeeBo, the next generation caretakers of the StrawBale.com community and resources dedicated to helping you build better with straw bale construction.
Timbo Scursso
Your Instructor and Design-Builder
Timbo embodies the spirit of the Master Builder of pre-modern times. Rooted as a practical designer and an accomplished builder, his simple designs and finely-crafted details exemplify what is achievable in straw bale construction. He is excited to share his lifelong construction experience and the wisdom of twenty years of specific straw bale design/build knowledge with a larger community.
Dainella Nartker
Your Community & Logistics Lead
Dainella weaves together people, places, and processes to make it easy for community members to access the resources they need for building their dream straw bale home. Her background includes a B.S. in Environmental Science & Experiential Education Training from University of Oregon, a career in the electrical trade, and over a decade of business ownership. She’s delighted to be applying her business skills to grow the craft and awareness of straw bale construction. But, really, it is being witness to and facilitating the empowerment of our community members through their learning process that fuels her most!
That's okay! Sometimes life happens. Pick right up with the class by visiting the Learning Center Course online lessons and completing the exercise so you're ready for the next class.
Class sessions are not recorded, so try not to miss the live discussion and teaching!
